Team 871 - Homebrew Segway

[MrB]

We call it the "Craigway" named after the student in charge of getting this project rolling.

After the Nationals a few of Team 871's students were getting restless. After seeing a couple homebrew segways at the Nationals, they decided they wanted to build one, but they wanted to have it actually run on two wheels like the real machine. Honestly, I thought it was never going to materialize, boy was I wrong.

The prototype does not yet support the rider. The rider must try to remain balanced, but when the rider leans in one direction, the "Craigway" moves in the desired direction.

Hopefully we will soon have a web site up following the project. Our goal is to have a self balancing (which it does) machine to move a human rider around like the real segway (i.e. only 2 wheels and no training wheels)

Enjoy the videos at the site below. Be kind and post a mirror if you can, this is being hosted from a cablemodem.

.30 MB Divx and 60 MB MPEG 1 clips are available.

E-mail me if you are interested in the 120 MB MPEG 2 video.