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Ball control on a touch screen (Microchip microcontroller)

submitted by nomino

1 decade 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

A steel ball was continuously balanced and kept in the center, preventing it from rolling over or falling down from a vibrating metallic plate using FLEX board with two servomotors.
A touchscreen was used to take the position of the steel ball.

Edit: Controlled by a microchip micro controller

7 Comments

those goldfish totally swallowed magnets

charliem says...

Technically, a micro-controller is a microchip, so its kind of redundant calling it a microchip micro-controller..

Technically, a micro-controller execute opcodes. A microchip is a discrete packaged semiconductor. You could have an FPGA micro-controller, embedded microcontroller, etc.

In this case it was a FLeX embedded controller from Microchip Technologies Inc.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1202349/Ball-control-on-a-touch-screen-(using-a-Microchip-microcontroller)

http://microcontrollershop.com/product_info.php?cPath=112_160_316&products_id=2022

So, yeah Microchip microcontroller is correct in this case.

>> ^joedirt:
Technically, a micro-controller execute opcodes. A microchip is a discrete packaged semiconductor. You could have an FPGA micro-controller, embedded microcontroller, etc.
In this case it was a FLeX embedded controller from Microchip Technologies Inc.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1202349/Ball-control-on-a-touch-screen-(usi
ng-a-Microchip-microcontroller)
http://microcontrollershop.com/product_info.php?cPath=11
2_160_316&products_id=2022
So, yeah Microchip microcontroller is correct in this case.

I added the line: "Controlled by a microchip micro controller" to goad him.

charliem says...

Bastard!!
> . <

This is awesome! I hope this technology will help in robotics. Last I heard, the top robots still have problems maintaining their center of gravity. At first glance, this looks like it might be a big help.

I wonder what would happen if you spun the ball.

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