graememk
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 12:27 AM |
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segway racing for the day
now heres a strange pressent from my parents
segway racing, didnt know what it was and a quick google bought up one of these
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 12:30 AM |
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trying not to laugh......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_h98YLiRX0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVuhPwy4f1w
[Edited on 26/12/07 by Mr Whippy]
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Guinness
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 10:56 AM |
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LOL at those video's Mr Whippy.
Good luck Graeme!
Mike
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graememk
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 11:02 AM |
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this is going to hurt isnt it !
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stevec
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 11:56 AM |
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Say goodbye to your collar bones
Have fun.
Steve.
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afj
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 06:35 PM |
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they cost a whopping £4299
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 07:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by afj
they cost a whopping £4299
not suprising when you see how much electronic's is in them, if I recall they have two motherboards. They only look simple.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 26/12/07 at 08:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
quote:
Originally posted by afj
they cost a whopping £4299
not suprising when you see how much electronic's is in them, if I recall they have two motherboards. They only look simple.
Most of the complexity is in the failsafes, stabilising an inverted pendulum is not a very difficult problem. With the ready availability of cheap
solid state accelerometers and cheap fast micros people have already made Locost Segways.
Building an open source Segway.
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