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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."
Using the DMCA, Dean Kamen and Segway have sued a group of nerds who, in their garage, built an open source Segway for $50 that uses Linux and a Beowulf cluster comprised of 4 386's and a rotary bladed push mower from a garage sale.
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See, why overpay for a Segway, when I can build a better machine out of 10 GHZ Athalon's, a 500 GB HD, 15 GB of RAM and run Open Office, GIMP and Gnome!
Oh, wait, I got Segway confused with Apple....
"oohhh... I didn't know Schopenhauer was a philosopher!"