Nice build. Because of all they hype the proceeded the introduction of the Segway, I can’t get to excited of the Segway, and Segway knock offs. They aren’t suitable for either operation on busy roadways,or busy pedestrian paths, not they don’t have their niche, but the hype promised a revolution in the way we travel.

Cool, you are featured on hackaday!
Congrats P1R! Also your segway rocks!

Looks rock solid, and the instructions and thoughts are well explained. Nice video there also!

wow that’s just great! and the video is also very good.

As several have observed, this raises a lot of questions about the original Segway.

2-wheeled balancing robots have been around a long time, (2-wheeled) scooters even longer. There are a number of examples of one-off devices like [petter] has built, mostly performing well although less sophisticated cosmetically, yet Segways cost 000′s of dollars and no one else is allowed to build similar devices commercially.

Is this just more nonsense from the US patent office? Or am I missing something?

It kind of reminds me of Dyson vacuum cleaners, which cost a packet and only seemed to offer the actual advantages of being able to see the dirt, and not having a filter. Except they did have a filter once it emerged that the early ones made some allergies worse because of the biological nasties that got through the cyclonic filters. In the UK you still see perfectly working Dysons in skips with blocked biological filters that the owners didn’t realise were there, therefore dumped them.

I think it’s very important that innovators get the chance to cash in on their inventions if they choose to, it’s just that some inventions don’t seem all that inventive…

I agree with bacchus about the US patent office. Take the Dyson machines, “cyclonic” filtering has been going on for over 100 years, just go look at any old furniture factory.
Other patents I have looked at are not even correct. An idea I was looking at had been patented, except it listed IR as being transmitted over wires.
I think this is where “open source” could come in handy, put together a “base” kit for a segway knock off. Some assy required.

Accidentally forgot one letter of course I meant Petter and not Peter

Would have been infinitely cooler w/o the handle bars. Still though, very cool.

hi, i want to build such a segway for my project, can u please give the circuit design & other mechanical design requirements for the design.it will be really grateful for u to do such a favour. thank you.