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Balancing lateral scooters, like the Segway, are often thought to be technological miracles, but it is not actually very hard to build a balancing scooter. I [Trevor Blackwell] built the one described here for my own amusement, and to help me understand the control theory behind it.

I [Trevor Blackwell] got the scooter working in about a week using off the shelf parts. Altogether it cost about $2000, or $2500 if you include the one-time costs of buying development kits and parts I ended up not using. That's less than half the cost of a real Segway.

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