Ok, the print may technically be composed entirely of layer shifts.
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But it’s to the point where I just think it’s funny, more than anything else.
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“b”
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→ ← → ← B A “start”
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↑↑↓↓←→←→BA “select” “start”
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Leap Frog actually programmed this into their toy game controller for toddlers. I was playing with my son’s years ago and did this combo and it started playing a new song!
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The reason I got such a bad concussion at my last race was that, even though I started falling while facing forward, my board got spun backwards and so my front toe hook torque’d my ass around 180 before I hit the ground. So I’ve sworn off bindings, especially in wheel to wheel racing. This presents 2 functions that I need to replace:
- Keeping my feet from rattling off the board, which will be solved with footstops that are velcroed to my shoes. This should be very sticky, especially combined with W concave and frit. But the attachment shouldn’t be strong enough to hook me around in a crash.
- Giving me leverage over the board, which will be solved by making a board which requires no leverage. I already have the deck at axle height to reduce lateral G pushback, and I’m running extremely loose bushings, so the force required to maneuver should be nil. To keep it from getting squirelly, I’m going to use a steering damper on (at least) the front truck, basically as a replacement for my barely-existing bushings.
I printed everything in grey and blacked it out with paint later. I’ve got mounting lugs for steering dampers, and some big 'ol footstops fitted to my shoes.
I prepped my vans with rubber cement, stuck velcro tape on, and sealed the edges with superglue.
Got all the prints botled down with M6 inserts. Got the front motors swapped out with some TB ones from @haven for slightly moar amps. Got the 8" Novas from @piepowered . Got the Ohlins damper shooting up like a fuckin flak cannon.
Legstick mounted too. This chassis is rolling, baby! The rest of the build is just fuckin wires
Chasing down @Dinnye 's record of floppiest race board.
I’m just glad the damper doesn’t collide with anything and make me look dumb lol
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There’s unlicensed gas station supplements for that
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I know, that’s the bushing formula I’m using
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Like energy drinks?
Not the kind of thing that’s openly listed for sale. To get the bushings I’m using, you gotta know a guy
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Illegal drugs?
Sorry “gas station supplement” is a new term for me and I can’t fathom for the life of me what that could be.
Correct, I’m using WFB (Wobbly Fentanyl Bushings) tall barrels in 83A
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Skatan willing 
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The Chungus Iron has arrived. It’s everything I coulda hoped for. Liquefies these big joints instantly.
There’s a big difference in how clean the joints are between the start and end of the build session though, which might be from how I’m melting a bit of copper into the solder apparently?
The soldering wrecked the heatshrink I was gonna cover the connections with, so this might not be very aesthetic anymore but whatever, it’ll run.
Just gotta do motor wiring! I’m getting dangerously close to spinning wheels.
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Sort of got the wheels spinning today, but not really. What I did was:
- download fresh copy of VESC tool (changed laptops since last use)
- plug into rear TB ESCs, update to FW6
- run motor detection successfully
- start setting up input
- get an error about “the VESC has incompatible firmware and needs to be updated to continue” or something to that effect
- check again, FW6 installed on both units
- re-write software anyway
- neither is showing up on USB anymore, had my computer forget the device and re-setup it, no dice. Not sure what to do next.
- entirely separately, no lights or connectivity on the Unity up front, or my spare Unity. Never got a chance to do anything with them. Is a power switch mandatory with those? I’m just using loopkeys.
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Regarding the unity, I am not too familiar with them but I wouldn’t be surprised if you need to short the switch port to have it turn on with a loopkey. Definitely do some research before you try though. Also possible that the antispark circuitry failed open, but having that be the case on both, would be rather strange.
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Thanks for the tip! I found the diagram and made a jumper. Updated firmware on the unity.
VESC tool is still tripping though:
My brother in Christ, YOU wrote the firmware!
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#justVESCthings
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