A group of high schoolers and MIT students decided to build their own Segway for a summer engineering project, and found themselves with something that looks disturbingly good. Pictured right is a chap on Dean Kamen's polished, commercial invention; to the left is Cam Tenny on the DIY replicant.
From their after-action report:
These young roboticists' creation is nearly as fast as the real thing, but cost far less to put together—about $1,000 in off-the-shelf components.
Work's not all done: the team still plans to upgrade its microcontroller and enact some other upgrades. Here's some video.
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