Design Monitoring

Roboticist Mike Rouleau has constructed, apparently for no reason other than that he can, a self-balancing stick. Observe: <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/woCdjbsjbPg" width="1280"></iframe> Rouleau calls it a Dual Axis Reaction Wheel Inverted Pendulum. To explain, self-balancing, inverted pendulums are a "thing" among a subset of roboticists and tinkerers, but they typically operate like Segways, where the base moves around to…