Yet Another Cool BB-8 Droid Project
A clever design for a homemade, radio-controlled BB-8 droid replica.
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Watch This Transfixing Benchtop Gyroscope Build — Part Two
In this concluding episode of the gyroscope build, I show you how to finish off the remaining parts, and then put it all together for a run.
Watch This Transfixing Benchtop Gyroscope Build
Gyroscopes really are amazing devices, and as a home machine shop project, they really don’t come much better than this.
3D Printed Toy Uses 104 Pennies to Walk
This 3D-printed toy uses a flywheel filled with pennies to walk like nothing you’ve seen before. The open-source 3D printed toy revisits a gyroscope design that was shelved by Mattel in the 80s.
An Inexpensive Self-Balancing Robot
This self-balancing robot was designed and built by Kerry Wong and uses just a few ICs and some basic electronic components to get the job done. This project is definitely more up your alley if you’re interested in using discrete components rather than a microcontroller designed for prototyping, but the cost in doing it this way makes it attractive.
How-To: Low-Cost Gyroscopic Camera Stabilizer
DIY physics guru David Prutchi coveted one of the expensive professional-grade gyroscopic camera stabilizers made by Kenyon Laboratories. “These devices,” he observes, “don’t seem to have changed much since Kenyon’s founder filed the following two patents in the 50′s: US2811042, US2570130.” Referencing those patents, David reverse-engineered the basic geometry of the Kenyon stabilizer using a pair of inexpensive precision gyroscopes from Glenn Turner of gyroscopes.com.
Weekend Project: Gyrocar (PDF)
Turn a toy gyroscope into a motorized gyrocar and make it ride on skinny tracks. Thanks go to Matthew Gryczan for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Get the Track Wheel Mounting […]
