Is it possible to add an extra wheel to the Nervous Bird?


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Greetings! I just received my mBot Ranger but I haven’t had a chance to start building anything yet.

I LOVE the look of the “Nervous Bird” but I’m worried about the impact of the self-balancing on battery life. More important, I want to be able to program my new robot and that apparently isn’t possible with the Nervous Bird.

Has anyone tried to add a wheel to the back of the Nervous Bird? (So it no longer needs to self-balance.) I guess the Dashing Raptor is similar, but I don’t like the way the metal frame looks.

Alternately, has anyone tried to program a Nervous Bird using Arduino code? I’m assuming that you would need to write your own self-balancing code? Has anyone attempted that?

EDIT: To be clear, I’m wondering about using the kit pieces to add a third wheel. (As opposed to using some homemade solution.)


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