3 Responses:

1. pavel_lishin says:

   12 years ago at 12:37 pm

   Sweet. My dreams of owning a replica of a Polarian might soon be fulfilled!

   • ritcey says:

     12 years ago at 1:11 pm

     I'm pleased that I'm not the only dork who instantly thought of that book.

2. strspn says:

   12 years ago at 1:28 am

   Wow! The tri-wheel control is simple and wonderfully clever. I bet thousands of robotics engineers are asking themselves why they didn't think of it first.

   Now I am wondering how much harder than this balance metastability of the lateral axis of a unicycle is. I guess the main problem is if you start tipping over laterally on a unicycle, you have a limited amount of momentum to try to bring yourself back up, whereas this thing can just keep spinning in any direction.