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Motorized Uni

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  1. Does anybody know of anyone making a successful electric uni?

    and I don't mean anything like the bombardier which has all sorts of
    stabilizers and stuff like that.

    I am planing to use a 18V cordless drill, probably a ridgid (the
    industrial line) for power.

    I do have some experience with electronics, and am planing to take out
    the existing triger speed controller and replace it with something that
    can be attached to my right pedal so that when I lean my foot forward,
    it pulls it. I'm going to have a brake attached also, so when I lean my
    foot back, it pulls it.

    I am undecided where to put the motor, but if I have the thing chain
    driven, future models could have the left foot operating a gear
    shifter.

    Here's how the right pedal's hoocked up:

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  2. http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/unique.html

    there is a guy riding a motor unicycle on this link its pretty cool.

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  3. Here's a French dude, Jackie Chabanais, who has a functional motorized
    unicycle. 'Jackie Chabanais' motorized unicycle'
    (http://www.jackiechabanais.com/the_monocycle.htm)

    He's also got some monocycles and other toys.

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  4. Trevor Blackwell has plans for a 'do-it-yourself electric unicycle'
    (http://tlb.org/eunicycle.html)

    It's almost self-balancing. A gyrosope sensor measures the fore-and-aft
    tilt and a microcontroller varies the motor voltage to keep it upright.
    Side-to-side balancing is done in the conventional way with arm swings
    and hip swivels to turn into the direction of the fall. It's not very
    fast, but hey, it's a good start.

    I've been thinking modifying Trevor's design with a 26" fat tire. The
    12" wheel in Trevor's design would get tripped up by the rough pavement
    and sidewalks near where I live.

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