(I do need it)
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Me too, desperately. Funny thing. I move from Finland to the US and then start working on ordering all sorts of esk8 stuff from EU and Finland to the US. FlexiBMS will hopefully find its way to my first battery pack.
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Just to inform you guys as well.
Got hit by a car on a crosswalk yesterday (24.6). Had a little air time, but survived with little physical injuries (couple bruises and swelling) and there was no need for ambulance. Was wearing my normal gear: knee pads, elbow pads, TSG pass and a backpack. Something got mechanically damaged on my board and I’m in the process of figuring out what exactly (slowly rolled to home on it after the situation had cleared). I think it’s a slightly bent wheel axle on one side of my Trampa trucks. Also 2 out of 4 3D-printed mudguards broke, but those are easily re-printed.
I have an eyewitness, driver was pretty spooked and apologetic and confessed that he hadn’t paid enough attention and hadn’t seen me coming.
I’m in the aftermath process now and have scheduled a doctor’s appointment and need to take care of some insurance stuff + file a report to the police.
Was a BMW (stereotypes, I know right) with the following chassis style.
Maybe I’ll do a breakdown of the event later.
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Glad you are safe. Can’t wait for emergency braking in all cars. I would have reported him to the police.
I had a car turn into the bike lane without looking and I saw in time to jump off but she ran over the board. She wouldn’t give me insurance information. Called 911, gave them cars numberplate, got the insurance information, filed a claim and finally got money to repair the board.
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Sorry to hear, but glad it wasn’t worse.
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Came back from doctor’s appointment.
He checked that everything had normal ranges of motion and then described me rest for 3 days and some pain medication for the contusions.
Guess I’ll try to fix my board then… I’m pretty sure the motors didn’t have this scratching noise with them before the hit…
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Wow glad you have so few injuries
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Ouch! Great that nothing worse happened! 
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Shipping supplies have arrived and I’m pretty happy with them and my shipping workflow now, not perfect but at a stage where I feel capable of starting to send more stuff.
I’m gonna be selling some BMSs (10-15 pcs) soon that I have assembled with components bought with my own personal money (not company property) as an individual.
Afterwards I’ll order a big component batch for a 100+ build with company money, which will then be sold through my company and it’s webshop and then carry on through that in the future.
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Sounds good, count me in for 1 BMS if possible, please 
Do you accept bribes to get on that initial 10-15pcs list? 
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Count me in for bribery…
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Oooooof I want a bunch of these so bad
If you are willing to throw me two for them european gold coins, I’m in. 
I’ll trade a bitcoin for one.
Im happy to pick one or two of these up if you still have room on the first batch
It is amazing. It’s fun to think about building ESK8 using FLEX BMS. Space-saving BMS. More batteries.
Yeah I’m somehow just seeing this now, but would loooove to get on this list at some point 
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Update.
I assembled all the boards that I had components for last weekend and spent some time optimizing the axis speeds for faster assembly while staying reliable. If I want more axis speed I need to upgrade the stepper motors to beefier or faster ones.
I’m still using vision for all components and I got to around 8 seconds/component at the best conditions. After taking everything else into account (solder paste application, reflow oven and component tape manual advancing) the placement speed was roughly 16 seconds/component. Each board has 149 component that are placed with the machine (top + bottom side total), so about 40 minutes per board. I was assembling 3 boards in a batch in 2 hours. I’m okay with the axis speeds for now, but I’m already looking into making automatic feeders for most of the component tapes, as I have to spend a lot of time currently faffing about advancing the tapes on the holders manually every now and then. I’m also planning on switching to panel assembly instead of individual boards to increase output and efficiency. Most likely a 4 or 6 board panel.
I currently have 11 boards assembled (9 were assembled last weekend and need to be QC tested). I’ll be selling these soon at a lower 60€ + shipping price, which includes possible connectors.
Note, I think I’ll be prioritizing EU buyers at this point in time as I have had couple letters to USA and Australia being stuck in Finland based on their tracking info and have had confirmation that the normal postal logistics to Australia are completely disrupted due to the bug situation. Logistics to the states should be working, but I guess they might have a big backlog at the moment of letters and parcels or there is something weird going on there. That is why I’m prioritizing EU buyers at the moment, because EU postal traffic seems to be operating at a somewhat of capacity.
I’ll be placing my big component order for 100 board @ digi-key later today. I think I feel my new business debit card sweating in my wallet at the moment…
I’m gonna assemble the 100 boards with the current setup and then probably gain enough annoyance and frustration to get enough motivation to spend time optimizing my machine setup for profit and speed… and laziness.
I’ll leave this excellent quote from the comment section of a youtube video titled " Fastest and laziest mortar team."
in 1920. Frank B. Gilbreth Sr. evaluated the motions of workmen to determine the most efficient techniques to perform tasks
Gilbreth studied the methods of various bricklayers—the poor workmen and the best ones, and he stumbled upon an astonishing fact of great importance and significance. He found that he could learn most from the lazy man!
Most of the chance improvements in human motions that eliminate unnecessary movement and reduce fatigue have been hit upon, Gilbreth thinks, by men who were lazy—so lazy that every needless step counted.”
Another important thing Gilbreth noted was that the so-called expert factory workers are often the most wasteful of their motions and strength. Because of their energy and ability to work at high speed, such men may be able to produce a large quantity of good work, and thus qualify as experts, but they tire themselves out of all proportion to the amount of work done.
I’ll be leaving the office for my 3 week summer “holiday” after this week, but I guess we’ll see how much chilling I’ll be able to do…
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Any idea when the sales will start?
Count me in for one or two if possible
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