Not disagreeing that it’s intellectual property.
But to me it’s a freaking shell for a remote (not design for electronic component), no way it took thousands of hours, that’s hyperbole.
I thought it was harmless to ask. And when Eileen said it was confidential, I thought they missed opportunity to help someone DIY something cool. I thought this community was all about DIY.
I said thousands, as in thousands of $ in engineering hours. Maybe it took a few hundred hours or so for the shell and mold development
We are all DIY, Maytech is kind of DIY. Who knows
Lol, that’s what you meant? Cause it’s not what you wrote. Thanks for the clarification.
Have no fear, I’m already almost done with it 
Man i’m jealous i’m not a rick and morty nerd but this looks dope wish my 3d printer wasn’t dead so I could make one for… for 
a friends …
Had my first remote signal loss with this remote 
I was cruising an area downtown called the banks where it’s like 20 bars on one block back to back.
Noticed some phantom acceleration while I was getting schwifty and brakes weren’t responding while headed towards an intersection.
I lowered my remote as close as possible to my top mount and signal restored in time. I got more weirdness on this road when I went through slowly again. Must be all the bars remote signals going on so condensed but still sketchy. I also had a metallic duct tape space ship interfering so I will retest with normal clothes on.
I had signal loss too last night 
, right as I was coming up to what was suppose to be a stop at an intersection. Was in busier part of town.
Super sad since I really really like the form factor of this remote. Switching back to Puck on my main board for now.
Yeah I love the split trigger and feel of this remote. I need someone with a solid nrf module to make a split trigger version and not a puck form only cough cough @DRI . I just couldn’t get used to it.
I had some phantom acceleration for the first time yesterday too, but I quickly realized that it only happened because I rode within 100ft of a cell tower tree
Other than that it’s been amazing. Love the split trigger, huge amount of travel, and control accuracy. Besides that, the telemetry is great (except for the ridiculous mileage) and the ability to trigger my lights is cool too
Hmm I don’t think this boosts the signal at all though. It would just let the antenna be mounted closer and it’s already positioned as close to my hand as possible in the top mount.
We actually abandoned using NRF/ESB connection protocol for our new remotes entirely. The Robogotchi uses an NRF52840 module but only for the BLE protocol, we disabled the ESB support completely.
We did not find the performance held up to our standards in testing, even using a top-shelf NRF52840 XR module. Ultimately it’s a limitation of the ESB (Enhanced ShockBurst) protocol, which is the proprietary nordic stack that it runs for the remote link. ESB lacks the ability to channel hop after it’s been associated with a receiver, relying upon only GSK modulation for signal integrity/interference protection.
We decided to go back to our original radio hardware using Xbee series modems (2.4ghz & 868mhz variants, DSSS/FHSS options). They’re expensive but we have a solid 18 months of road testing on them at this point so they are high-confidence even in the noisiest of environments (looking at you SF).
It’s in the works for first half of 2021; we’re trying to work out a proper trigger setup with our thumbwheel manufacturer atm 
This is good
