News Building your own Segway!

I found this via the Chillblast site:

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Balancing lateral scooters, like the Segway™ are often thought to be technological miracles, but it is not actually very hard to build a balancing scooter. I built the one described here for my own amusement, and to help me understand the control theory behind it. (I work a lot on balance, mostly for walking humanoid robots.)

I put this scooter together in a week using off the shelf parts. Altogether it cost about $2000, or $2500 if you include the "one-time" costs of buying development kits and parts I ended up not using.

Full details here. Worth reading just for the comparison chart!

It pays to debug your code on a project like this:

Ouch!

 

I read the article, but it is still expensive to build your own tho.....

 

Strikes me as another triumph for the fat and lazy disease Never got really why anyone would want a Segway over a bike? For £4000 I can make a very nice rigid bike lol and I can ride it over terrain the Segway would curl up and die at

 

For £4000 you could buy quite a nice car

 

That's pretty interesting!

 

No thanks. Rather have a nice bicycle. If I needed something that was powered, I'd go with one of those electric scooters - longer distances would be a moped or my car

Uh, how can this be THAT tiring!? Dude, if that makes you tired, I'm afraid to hear what WALKING does!

 

lmao @ the video over the steep curb!
He needs better motors and some bigger wheels, then the ride would be faster/smoother (a bit) and could get over bumps a heck of a lot easier... 'course that means he'd have to forget about riding it around inside without ducking through doorways... worth it if you ask me.
His wheels look like they're ~9"... segway's wheels are closer to 2'...

The idea that people can build it on their own is quite interesting though...

 

I too would rather a bike, but only if it had a motor on it