The Steel Ball Table - Click To see Youtube video Demo

Steel Ball Positional Placement Table

This is a 7x5 inch table that a steel ball rests upon and is positioned using closed loop servo control techniques.   

The ball sits upon a X-Y resistive panel and an Arduino microcomputer allows the steel ball to be positioned to a given X-Y placement.   You may or may not know it but to get a ball to rest on any given position requires closed loop control code such as is used in this project.

The demo video shows the ball roll in a square pattern as the setpoints are changed from
the program automatically.  Any sort of slow movement is possible using this code.

The rather basic control loop code in arduino sketch is  found  HERE

The Updated Nicer SteelBall Table II

A re-designed version is operational now that sports a much nicer look.

This version uses a large ball where the servos have 2-axis control so is the same idea but done in a way that will be much nicer as far as general look. This version also uses much higher resolution servo driver so can do much smoother control.

This version can also be made more 'interesting' by addition of lights and so on under the clear table which allow seeing the inner workings.

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Steel Ball Table

This is a 7x5 inch table that a steel ball rests upon and is positioned using closed loop servo control techniques.   

The ball sits upon a X-Y resistive panel and an Arduino microcomputer allows the steel ball to be positioned to a given X-Y placement.   You may or may not know it but to get a ball to rest on any given position requires closed loop control code such as is used in this project.

The demo video shows the ball roll in a square pattern as the setpoints are changed from
the program automatically.  Any sort of slow movement is possible using this code.