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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">My own self balancing Lego Segway</div>
24 <div class="date"> 4th November 2016</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>A while back I received a Gyro sensor for the NXT
26 <a href="mindstorms.lego.com">Mindstorms</a> controller as a birthday
27 present. It had been on my wishlist for a while, because I wanted to
28 build a Segway like balancing lego robot. I had already built
29 <a href="http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/segway/">a simple balancing
30 robot</a> with the kids, using the light/color sensor included in the
31 NXT kit as the balance sensor, but it was not working very well. It
32 could balance for a while, but was very sensitive to the light
33 condition in the room and the reflective properties of the surface and
34 would fall over after a short while. I wanted something more robust,
35 and had
36 <a href="https://www.hitechnic.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=NGY1044">the
37 gyro sensor from HiTechnic</a> I believed would solve it on my
38 wishlist for some years before it suddenly showed up as a gift from my
39 loved ones. :)</p>
40
41 <p>Unfortunately I have not had time to sit down and play with it
42 since then. But that changed some days ago, when I was searching for
43 lego segway information and came across a recipe from HiTechnic for
44 building
45 <a href="http://www.hitechnic.com/blog/gyro-sensor/htway/">the
46 HTWay</a>, a segway like balancing robot. Build instructions and
47 <a href="https://www.hitechnic.com/upload/786-HTWayC.nxc">source
48 code</a> was included, so it was just a question of putting it all
49 together. And thanks to the great work of many Debian developers, the
50 compiler needed to build the source for the NXT is already included in
51 Debian, so I was read to go in less than an hour. The resulting robot
52 do not look very impressive in its simplicity:</p>
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54 <p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-04-lego-htway-robot.jpeg"></p>
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56 <p>Because I lack the infrared sensor used to control the robot in the
57 design from HiTechnic, I had to comment out the last task
58 (taskControl). I simply placed /* and */ around it get the program
59 working without that sensor present. Now it balances just fine until
60 the battery status run low:</p>
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62 <p align="center"><video width="70%" controls="true">
63 <source src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-04-lego-htway-balancing.ogv" type="video/ogg">
64 </video></p>
65
66 <p>Now we would like to teach it how to follow a line and take remote
67 control instructions using the included Bluetooth receiver in the NXT.</p>
68
69 <p>If you, like me, love LEGO and want to make sure we find the tools
70 they need to work with LEGO in Debian and all our derivative
71 distributions like Ubuntu, check out
72 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">the LEGO designers
73 project page</a> and join the Debian LEGO team. Personally I own a
74 RCX and NXT controller (no EV3), and would like to make sure the
75 Debian tools needed to program the systems I own work as they
76 should.</p>
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