When I first saw Segway on television it was really fascinating for me and I wanted to take a ride on this particular machine. So I've decided to build this machine on my own in my last year of Mechanical Engineering. Hence I decided to make a cheap segway as my final year Engineering Project.
Few Problem Statements due to which I enthusiastically accepted this challenge were as follows:
•There is no personal
transporter in India other than bike , cars etc.
•People use bike for traveling short distances which give rise to consumption of fossil fuels as
well as pollution.
•In India the most
basic personal transporter medium is bike which costs around more than 45-50
thousands.
•For few physically
challenged people they only rely on wheel chairs. So even for them a personal
carrier system is absent in India.
•In official Segway
Dean Kamen has used 10 microprocessors while in our Segway we are going to use
single microprocessor with additional electronic components which will decline
rate.
•Power supply is from
Li-ion battery which is costly we are going to use Lead Acid battery which is
quite cheap.
•Material used in
branded segway is a composite material which is again quite costly and hard to
manufacture