Reaction wheels are useful things, typically used by satellites to keep themselves oriented the right way up in space. Turning the reaction wheel creates an equal and opposite torque in the spacecraft ...

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

He works in mysterious ways.

MATLAB Support Package for Arduino Hardware: Interactively read, write, and analyze data from Arduino sensors http://www.mathworks.com/hardware-support/arduino-matlab ...

Aaron Hankin is currently working for Dow Jones MarketWatch. He has 10+ years of professional experience in the financial markets. The U.S. economy seems to be doing fine. Growth, for the most part ...

Abstract: Wheeled Inverted Pendulum (WIP) systems offer agile mobility but are challenging to control due to their unstable and underactuated dynamics. To address these limitations, we develop a ...

Abstract: This paper studies the stability problem of the stability control of the inverted pendulum system with interval time-varying delay, obtains the time-varying delay margin of the inverted ...

Have some servos and an Arduino lying around? It isn’t too late to get your freaky on! Last night, tech enthusiasts of Las Vegas gathered at Pololu Robotics to show off their hacks for a Halloween ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of ...

The initial goal is to create a basic proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller that can balance the inverted pendulum model in a physics simulation (Phase 1). After the core control ...