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Here's a fun report of making something (very!) like this from scratch:

http://transistor-man.com/flying_nimbus.html

I don't think they're related, but they're so similar it's hard not to believe there's not some inspiration in some direction. Dunno which direction it is, though.

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There’s a link to the Onewheel at the bottom of that page, no indication they’re related though.

That is a surprisingly short code for the balancing logic.

Small world! The flying nimbus-thing is my contraption, feel free to ask any questions. Just moved servers so some of the photos may load artificially small.

any plans to make it commercially available?

The onewheel folks's prototype inspired a lot of my build, there's quite a bit of tech to keep something like this happy and safe to use, check out their manufacturing line:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/02/onewheel-assembly/

Textbook example of what a kickstarter campaign can do and how to run one.

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