Former NASA engineer Mark Rober traveled all the way to London to partner with James Bruton for one of his latest projects. Simply put, it’s a bowling bowl that only gets strikes. It may look normal at first, but inside, you’ll find a weighted electronic mechanism that enables the bowler to steer it using simple body movements.
The main principle is that they’ve got an axis on which the ball rolls in one direction and a pendulum that swings side to side for steering, just like his previous BB-8 robot. Hardware wise, there’s an MPu-6050 and an Adafruit BNO055 Breakout inertial measurement units to measure the ball’s specific force, angular rate, and orientation.
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What you should know about James aside from the fact that he’s a mechanical, electrical engineer genius is he used to be a toy designer,” said Rober.
