I saw this on TechTV not too long ago. Very cool. I will have to read up on the website, because it sounds like a project I would like to do. The Segway is very cool (not really a transportation revolution, but cool nonetheless) but I can't justify the $5000 it costs....
I had an idea about a year ago to balance a scooter with just a big flywheel and gyroscope, but it might be a tad heavy and energy hungry.
If you could get your hands on one of those camera gyroscopes...I think they run for $50? the rest would just be the motor and batteries. you could probly get a pic to controll it
i dunno, that would be pretty cool. I can defanently think of some better uses for the money though. did anyone ever see that screen savers where they had those robots, and those that could stand...that was pretty cool...do something like that on a bigger scale
There was actually an ongoing project in Poptronics magazine a while back where one of the authors made a bipedal walker robot. It wasn't terribly robust, but it could walk around on flat surfaces without falling over. He just used a couple pressure sensors in the feet to help the pic know where the legs were. It was a 'chicken-walker' (reversed knees) too, like many MechWarriror designs. He had to use a hell of a lot of servo motors though.
build your own segway
Posted - Nov 04 2003 : 03:35:02 AM
