A group of students from Wayland High School, John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School working with four MIT students have built a self-balancing scooter like the Segway™ for less than a thousand dollars. The thing actually works, as demonstrated in the video.
The parts list for the student’s version is much less sophisticated than that of the Segway’s. The students used sheet aluminum, Lexan, a PIC microcontroller board connected to a laptop used for programming and debugging and other very basic parts. All of the code on-board the DIY Segway was written in C.
The students have a web site that gives further info about the project. I love the Port-A-Pottys in the background in their publicity stills.
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