DIY Segway-Style Balancing Robot

clarionhaze writes "Many have tried, and failed, at getting a robot to sustain it's own balance. However; Steve Hassenplug accomplished it with with a small robot he made out of legos and a program in C that runs on BrickOS, an OS made for Legos! You can check out his site or read the article over at TechTV." Update: 01/18 15:52 GMT by T : Unanimous Cow writes "David Anderson of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group has an excellent web page with images and movies of his two-wheel balancing robot. This one uses a single-axis inertial measurement sensor and is very robust on uneven surfaces and off-road."

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How about a 'Dupe' category?

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We all know such a category would be the busiest, with hot dupes coming off the Repeat Mill at a steady rate.

It would be great because articles like this must be important enough to be on the front page annually, sometimes 2 or three dupes on the same page, sometimes one after another on the same page... Since the editors believe these articles are so important yet so elusive when they check for previous stories by searching slashdot (they DO check, right?), lets move the dupes to their own categories as they are discovered.

I am serious. Dupes are great, because I missed this LegWay article the first time around. But let's label the dupes, okay? Except, only allow dupes MISSED by editors when they post, to keep the category fun and to hold the editors responsible for when their name will appear in 10 articles in a row in such a category...

(But I do believe slashdot is just posting dupes under the alias timothy all the time because they want to appear higher on google through links to interesting stories that people would search for. It's not a news site, but a interesting stuff site.)