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  BrickBots.Com Contests Extended - Balancing a Pendulum is HARD!
 
Hi Folks, I have decided to extend the current contest (Top Spinning and Inverted Pendulum Balancing) at BrickBots.Com for two more weeks. The top spinning contest had one entry during the original timeframe, and a great one at that! You can see (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: BrickBots.Com Contests Extended - Balancing a Pendulum is HARD!
 
Hi Richard, There has been an inverted pendulum balancer done using RCX and legos before. Here is a link to one of these projects (made by the author of the biped1 robot): (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: BrickBots.Com Contests Extended - Balancing a Pendulum is HARD!
 
(...) I've built two different designs, each of which can stay balanced for typically 6 seconds or do before giving up and dying spectacularly (one of these was nearly as tall as I am). I'm glad you extended the contest - I still have hopes of (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: BrickBots.Com Contests Extended - Balancing a Pendulum is HARD!
 
I'm glad you are extending this too. I have something in the works that I think might succeed. Gus (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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