A front wheel of a scooter is pivotally mounted to a frame and includes an upwardly extending shaft supporting a handlebar for steering the scooter. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The utility of this approach is demonstrated in the fabrication of a sloping electrode structure intended for application in bulk micromachined titanium micromirror devices, however such a method could find use in the fabrication of any number of other microactuator, microsensor, microtransducer, or microstructure devices as well. One aspect of the present invention further includes repetitively inverting voltage signals across a pair of semiconductor devices beings used as temperature sensors to remove a common mode signal to produce an actual temperature-voltage curve.