So the board is moving and moving with me on it however I can’t say its working fantastically as I hoped. The belt seems to be slipping a bit when under pressure. i.e. With me on it up hill. Video of it all working: http://youtu.be/PAir1Ci-CaM Will get some video of me on it when it’s not …
After the electronic arrived the week and the new motor cog on I finally got all the parts together and I got ti moving. I’ve made the motor mount holes a little larger so I can try and pull the belt tighter. I didn’t have any good straps to hold everything onto the board so …
So finally my package arrived from hobbyking.com. A reminder that I did order this on the 18 March. So 3.5 weeks later the parts have arrived. Now what I’ve realised is that I’m missing some connectors for the ESC to connect to the battery and a battery charger. So the assembly is going to …
So I finally got around to try mounting the motor on the weekend and it was a little trickier than I thought. My plan was to screw the mounting bracket into the truck with some metal screws. The cogs I needed to start by attaching the large cog the the wheel. The hole in …
Thought I might highlight a project on Endless Sphere that a commenter (Jacob, cheers mate) gave me the heads up about. http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=47176&start=75 Really great stuff. The guy is a CNC operator from the UK whose done up some some motor mounting and cog pieces for the abec 11 wheels. The most importantly he’s got some …
So I finally got a day off work to go to the hobby shop to further investigate the cogs and belts. After hours of looking over their incomprehensible website (www.smallparts.com.au) the guy in the store was able to find the right gear for me within minutes. Only problem being he has to order it in. Hence its …
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 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 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 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 …
