Balancing Robot

Step 1 Things you need

To make this robot you need following parts and tools:
small electric motor
some gears
(or a motor with gearbox)
a shaft
two wheels
some sheets of plastic to make bearings and the robot neck
two battery holders
4 AA batteries
one button cell
one SPDT (single pole double throw) switch with a metal lever
one toggle switch for the on/off switchs
one nail
some wire
soldering iron
some glue

Comments

[AlKaswa]

where would i find a single pole double throw switch

[vahid_you2004]

Electronic devices shop

[milsorgen]

 aka radioshack

ive also pulled one out of a computer, and several other interesting looking switches. mostly out of the optical drives, front panels and a somewhat of floppy drives, but if you keep your eyes open...

[ben_xman]

I've also noticed that radioshack has accelerometers. I wonder if you could use those too? Might be more arduino based than BEAM though....

[Chowmix12]

try the buttons from mouses. they are conveniently SPDT, (not needed) but they have no lever, i've been able to fashion ones from paperclips and other simple materials.

[fire zone]

nice trick i got an idea to do somthin similar i will try postin it