Here are bunch of posts about my journey making an electric skateboard. Definitely a trial an error in the DIY experience experience but it was fun learning about the different aspects. Hopefully you’ll learn from my mistakes.
So my motor has arrived in the post today. I ended up getting the little beast NTM 2665W With some expensive postage $62 So I’m now doing up a template for the mount. Not a huge amount of clearance here Now the position of the motor is going to be dependant on the pulley …
So I thought I would do a bit of a list of the things that I’m going to need to create you electric skateboard and approximate prices. The board: $60 I was looking around for a longborad deck only and I saw a cheap longboard complete deck, bearings, wheels and all. Given it was the …
So when building a electric skateboard you’re going to have to decide for a street board of a mountain board setup. Mountain Board Pros: Can go off board Handles cracks and generally crappy roads well Cons: Goes slower and users more power than street board Don’t turn as well Street board Pros: Faster and use …
While I’m pretty handy on a snowboard and did a lot of inline skating in my youth (half pipe etc) I have to admit I’ve never ridden a longboard. I bearly ridden a normal skateboard so this long board thing is all pretty new. So I did what everyone does with high speed internet watched …
I decided to by a cheap longboard. Why, because the cheapest longboard deck I could find on ebay was $60 and I stumbled across a complete longboard on ebay for $60. So I thought to myself. I’ll buy it and see what happens. i can always use it as a bit of a first round …
So the problem with making your own electric skateboard is mounting the motor to the trucks to allow for movement but also keeping the chain/belt in place. Hey maybe you can ebay a set of trucks with a motor mount ready to go? A quick google is A going to tell you that this might …
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 …
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