I just assumed that the forum tools (in this case discourse) would have an app already or something. Not that big of an inconvenience
Put the 30+15 in the front and the 45-15 in the rear.
But how old is that deck? I thought only the old ones were +/-15 degreees. Aren’t the new ones +/- 10 degrees?
I asked in another thread but may have better luck here. Does anybody know the difference between the stormcore 60D and 60D+?
Actually I don’t know the angle.
The deck is pretty new, less than a year…
Switching them around to get 45 up front and 30 on the rear was the plan originally, but I guess I’ll probably still give the very high front/very low rear a try just to see how it feels.
I am never gonna go hella fast, but would like rather tight turning circles
They fixed the issue on the MCU of the plus version, so u can fully utilize all the uart ports
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They have an app but it’s utter trash as it just opens a browser inside the app.
Your options are : use browser or
Install a webapp (which is the closest you’ll get to an app) it also gets rid of the addressbar. Functionality is all the same wether you use the browser or the webapp. If you want the desktop view click on the hamburger menu and press desktop view.
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They already developed a cross-platform app. It’s called Firefox
Well they are necessary for things that don’t have a antispark switch built into the ESC. There are more robust options, e.g. DV6.
In this case, a 2 dollar loop key is much cheaper than an antispark circuit, and it takes up less enclosure space. In fact, the last three builds I finished, the loopkey was on top, which I think looks really nice
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Apparently there’s already an app and it’s called Firefox (can’t use Chrome, Safari or Opera I guess)
For go-kart kind of contraptions, is it possible to setup individual “gas” and “break” pedals to control a vesc?
I’ve looked online, and it seems most people doing this kind of thing use a single electronic pedal for throttle, and mechanical pedal used to actuate disk breaks. I’m hoping to avoid mechanical breaks since in my particular case, fitting them would be a huge headache and probably pretty expensive, but i suppose its likely doable if it’s the only option.
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I think what you could do is use a vesc with two ADC ports, with one for the throttle, the other for the brake.
I know some have it, not sure if every single one does though
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What I’ve got rn is a maker x dv6, and to me it looks like it doesn’t even have one much less two. Guess I’ll have to look into other options.
Really? I might take a look at the pinout, it’s possible it uses the UART ports for ADC too
Edit: I just looked at there’s at least one per side, AD1 I think. Might be worth asking @YUTW123 how to hook up ADC to the DV6
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I don’t have the link on hand but I do recall some adapter board that accepted multiple ADC plugs and had a UART out to the VESC
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It wouldn’t be too hard to make a little converter box with a microcontroller polling two pedals and then controlling a digital potentiometer chip. Or you could just use said micro to output UART to the vesc directly. One issue I foresee is getting the behavior right when both pedals are pressed at the same time, either accidentally or on purpose. You wouldn’t want touching the throttle to cancel your brakes, for example.
Honestly though, I think you would be better off just using a mechanical brake pedal (and mechanical brakes to go with it). The main reason we don’t use mechanical brakes on esk8 is the physical constraints the sk8 platform offers. But gokart stuff has much more room for mechanical brakes, and they already exist!
On my ebike, I have e-brakes, which basically have an extra switch in them to tell the ESC to cut power as soon as you begin to actuate the brakes, so the motor and brakes aren’t fighting each other. I also have a fixed amount of regen set when the throttle is at zero, which basically simulates engine braking on a gasburner. It lets me slow down without actually using the mechanical brakes, but if I need to stop in a hurry, the mechanical brakes are still there.
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You can modify the VESC firmware to read them directly instead of having an extra layer of hardware.
So here’s the thing: there’s a reason I said go kart type of thing and not go kart.
What im working with is one of these bad boys:
Basically under the shroud, there’s something that basically looks like the front fork on a bike with around a 3x4x4 in space, and I’ve gotta cram in 2 6374s, chain ect. The other issue is that the hub/wheel it comes with is not conducive to mounting both a disk brake and sprocket, so I’ll probably have to modify it in some way to get a brake on one side. Then there’s the issue of getting the caliper mounted well ect. I’m not concerned about this from a “will I be able to do it or not” perspective, but all this stuff is bound to drive up cost, which is something I need to minimize, and it will take more time, which is something I don’t have much of.
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This is effectively what the split trigger remotes are doing, isn’t it? I imagine that the respective signals are being read and translated into the equivalent ppm/uart signal along the lines that @MysticalDork describes.
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Yea, I think you’re right. I wonder if anyone makes the pedal equivalent of a split trigger remote where there are two pedals and their two signals are combined into one.
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