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DIY Segway @ Wayland HS

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The DIY Segway makes a trip out to Wayland HS, and gets truly put to the test by some of the designers/builders. They know how to push it to (and sometimes past) its limits...

More info: http://web.mit.edu/first/segway

A group of about 12 students (MIT undergrad and grad plus high school students from FIRST Robotics teams 97, 2043, and soon-to-be-numbered Wayland HS rookies, and The Education Cooperative, have taken on the summer task of constructing a functional Segway-like scooter. Sponsored by The Edgerton Center, the D.I.Y. Segway is both a fun summer project and an educational experiment for hands-on engineering curricula.

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omg first guys

Posted 1 year by Anonymous User

Previous commenter: You are correct in more ways than one.

Posted 1 year by scolton

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