
If you want to build a balancing robot, there is no shortage of options to chose from. There’s the original LegWay, NXTWay, SegWay with Rider and more recently the AnyWay. If you thought that wasn’t enough, Gus from HiTechnic has made another, called the HTWay.
The HTWay is a remotely controllable SegWay robot. It uses the HiTechnic IR Receiver to allow you to steer it any which way you’d like using a Power Functions remote control and a HT Gyro to figure out which way it’s falling.
Gus has written up a nice article that goes a little bit into the theory behind the act of balancing with some accompanying NXC code. It’s well worth the read if you’re curious about how this stuff actually works. Don’t worry, if you’re only interested in building a cool looking robot, all the things you need and a nice video to watch are right at the top of the article, (you’ll be missing out on some great stuff, though). Go check out it out: [LINK]
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