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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
So I decided I wanted to make my own electric skateboard. It started last summer when I first saw someone zipping along the path at the beach on one and wholesale jerseys then really formed as an idea when I found my old cheap jerseys electric scooter that cheap jerseys had Developed been stuck under …
