His solution to balancing the bicycle was a reaction wheel that keeps the bicycle upright at all times. A bicycle is basically an inverted pendulum; something we’ve seen controlled in a number ...

The same technique also works here on Earth, and [Brick Experiment Channel] decided to build one out of LEGO to control an inverted pendulum. The initial design using a small LEGO wheel on an ...

A watch differs from a clock In its having a vibrating wheel instead of a vibrating pendulum ; and, as in a clock, gravity is always pulling the pendulum down to the bottom of its arc, which is ...

When the driver turns the steering wheel, that pendulum swings to the outside, directing more braking force to the outer wheel than the inner one. That may sound counterintuitive if you know how ...