The researchers at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (RETIS lab) of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa have created a nice system that manages to keep a steel ball balanced in the middle of a touch screen. The system consists of a Flex board with a Microchip dsPIC DSC and a couple of servo motors other than the touch screen, of course. I don't know much about electronics but I know that real-time control is hard. The video below shows the ball and plate system in action. Very cool!
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1 comments:
4:10 AM
Reddit users made a lot of questions about this project: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6zzvm/ball_control_on_a_touch_screen_using_a_microchip/?already_submitted=true
The engineer responded here:
http://dev.emcelettronica.com/ball-control-touch-screen-using-microchip-microcontroller
-is the forth comment (pj)
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