Honestly impressed with the atlas. Won’t buy it, but impressed.
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If you use a remote like the mini with a steering input it should be possible to drive a diy board like an RC car.
I thought this while having to carry heavy thane builds up my rocky driveway.
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i wonder how much heat the board will generate with a person on the board spining around 
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Couldn’t this be done with two separate esc’s and some code?
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Big pharma is mad at exway for curing billy’s ED.
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Yeah, run the signal into an Arduino and parse that out into signals to separate ESCs in duty cycle mode or just pwm
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Where’s that video?
Only if you have enough torque to break traction, that would depend on what terrain you are on, on mud should be pretty easy
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I can’t wait to turn my esk8 into a RC car, lol.
Here’s the exway video:
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Won’t this be very bad on your wheels?
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Why would exway care? More wheels to sell.
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I feel like this would only be useful for driving your board in RC car mode. If you stand on it this wont really work. The only way i could see it working is on a mountainboard with very wide trucks on dirt. But in this case you can also just jump on a spot.
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@14 min relevant to topic
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Actually pretty cool. The rocket, sweet. Think they could have used a better actuator to make it work automatically. Spoiler alert.
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yeah my thinking was something that could reset itself would be really dangerous whereas the spring it is very clear that there is a dangerous amount of energy contained that could go off anytime.
I saw one really cool comment about using a gyro effect to make it self kickflip. I actually really like that idea because any of us could make it and try it out. Basically spin up a flywheel and stop it suddenly when in the air and use a gyro to self correct and make sure it lands flat.
relevant video to that idea:
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Forget the kickflip. A turbo jump actuator, self resetting. With bindings of course, like an ollie from hell. Fucking thing turned in to a 64 Impala real quick… south central here we come
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like a extra set of 4 wheels that pop up from below to launch you into the air?
might need to move into a “self launching skateboard” thread in not too long
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Or the rear truck be on swing arm like a dirt bike, but the shock is a actuator.bstill pop the front then the back engages.
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I mean I’m actually working on something along these lines for the E-Freeboard Open source Electric Caster
Currently I’m thinking there will be a pull string handle sticking out the top of the module and you give it a pull and it locks into a lifted mode, this idea goes along with the self balancing ideas I talked about in that thread.
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