Cajun Crawler: the Segway gets a leg-up

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The Cajun Crawler was built by a team of mechanical engineering students at the University of Louisiana

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Take one DIY Self balancing electric vehicle project, replace the wheels with 6 pars of short legs based on Theo Jansen kinetic sculptures and the result looks like something out of “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”. A dynamically stabilized, ride-on robot that crawls.

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