Sir Winston Churchill once said "Never stand up when you can sit down", and perhaps taking that famous quote into account, retired engineer Roland MacDonald has created the equivalent of a Segway personal transporter that operates in the same manner - except the rider is seated. Roland's "Sitway" is an amazing build which uses two electric wheelchair motors which are controlled via an Arduino and a regenerative motor driver board. In the following video you can see the inventor take the Sitway for a test ride:
That's fantastic, and the build is fully documented over at Instructables. And for more, we're on twitter and Google+, so follow us for news and product updates as well.
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