Sunday, 20. June 2004
Topic: GINGER - on June 20, 2004 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
The man who brought you the homemade Segway returns with a self-balancing one-wheeler
The Eunicycle balances itself using a simple feedback loop between a solid-state gyroscope and the wheel motor. When it detects itself tilting forward, it runs the wheel forward to keep it under the center of gravity. When it detects itself tilting backwards it runs the wheel backwards. It does this so rapidly, about 200 updates per second, that it feels perfectly smooth.
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