Do It Yourself Segway...The Home Kit

[Reephdweller]

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The two-wheeled scooter created by Trevor Blackwell from easily available parts looks and functions just like the $5,000 Segway invented by Dean Kamen. (Trevor Blackwell)

Homemade Segway
California Inventor Crafts His Own Super-Scooter
Oct. 8- Not many people own Segways. Even fewer build them. But build one Trevor Blackwell did.

""I built it out of standard pieces of aluminum," he said.

"Regular" parts - wheelchair motors and radio-control car batteries - work just fine in his self-balancing scooter. Blackwell's wheels are stamped steel, not the Michelin-manufactured "engineering-grade thermoplastic" you find on real Segways. And Blackwell used just one gyroscope instead of the five in the Segway."

full news story.... (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/US/techtv_homemadesegway031008.html)

Pretty interesting, this guy made his own Segway scooter at home for much cheaper than the real thing.

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[monsterone]

now the economically challenged can be as lazy as rich people. what a world we've created!

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[FUNKMAN]

i could see them being stored in a car in case of a breakdown, in certain cases where someone may be stranded and is unable to change a tire.

maybe?

being i can't ice skate, roller skate, scooter, or skateboard without taking a dive, it would probably do more harm than good for me....

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