Boosted Board 2 review When I first saw boosted boards it was a raw kickstarter project, so I thought it was beyond time to look at what has changed, especially as they’ve recently launched their second generation board. From the first kickstarter campaign until the launch of Boosted Boards 1, the boosted boards team did …
Was just looking over the boosted board blog and I have to say their boards have come a long way since the prototype. You can tell they’ve but a fantastic amount of time and effort in testing and reworking the designs and they look fantastic. Check it out here: http://boostedboards.posthaven.com/ ESC They’ve moved from off the …
So the lovely people on engadget.com have had a chance to get their hands on the boosted board and take a ton of close up photos of the drive train. While the article itself isn’t the most enlightening for someone embarking on a self build the photos are: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/boosted-board-electric-skateboard/ Now I’ve just ripped these photos off …
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Update – This was originally publish in 2012 so some of the tech and whatnot has changed UPDATE: Since the protoype they’ve made a number of improvements on the designs, reworking the speed controller, the motor mount and the controller. They’ve put a lot of time and effort in to R&D, so while I’ve put …
So I just saw the video and kickstarter for boosted boards. Looks like a nice minimal board. They’re using and interesting two engine format and keeping the batteries (and skateboard range) to a minimum. http://www.boostedboards.com/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/170315130/boosted-boards-the-worlds-lightest-electric-vehicl One of the things I like about this project is that begins they’re using some really nice base components …
While I know you’re ready a blog about making and electric skateboard, I must say that you can go out and buy today that is well designed and tested. Gone are the days where the only options where terrible clunky Chinese made things, with giant tires. It will definitely save you some time and potentially …
My concern has always been how to weld the bracket to the truck. So after a lot of thought about how to mount the motor and even cutting a cardboard template a few weeks ago I’ve decided to go for a different method of mounting. Over Christmas I was telling my father in law about …
So it looks like we have another electric skateboard kickstarter project. What’s that at least 4 this year ? RedRock Boardshop is looking to raise an ambitions $100,000 and with 3 days left and $88000 shy it doesn’t look like taking off which is a shame. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redrockboardshop/fully-customizable-electric-skateboard-w-the-lagra So what are they offering. “Universal Motorized Skateboard …
So I started looking at what other people were doing with their own home grown electric skateboards and that was a little RIVISTA harder to find. Their is the one wheel at the back scooter tear down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccGao0gJnA The totally useless from ehow: http://www.ehow.com/way_5954024_instructions-making-electric-skateboard.html yeah cheap jerseys fuck you ehow The Cards pulling apart of cheap nfl jerseys …
To start my project I started looking around the internet for examples of other peoples electric boards to start with the off the self pre made numbers. What I found was a plethora of Chinese pre made units all about the same look and quality: http://www.electricskateboards.com.au/ http://www.e-glide.com/ http://www.streetstik.com.au/ http://www.metro-board.com/ http://www.zboardshop.com/ (interesting kick starter project with weight …
