How is it shit? 
Did I miss something?
I don’t think it’s fair to ask/expect a vendor to do free work. Everyone’s gotta eat.
Radium deserves to be compensated for their R&D if they develop awesome/innovative new shit.
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Not using IMU. Front truck steering angle sensor and later rear truck angle sensor will be used too.
The RTS board also has outputs for driving lights and can communicate with the BMS so we can protect every individual cell.
At some stage remote reciever may be integrated as well.
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The R&D is also huge. Have already spent weeks on RTS and to get it ready for release will require many weeks more work.
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Id be happy if the 4wd function/traction control was safe… seems like this goes well beyond bridging that gap
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If i were a vendor producing something like this, there isn’t a hope in hell that I would spend the hundreds of hours required to achieve a desirable result, just to have it completely fucked in the next fw update.
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Many people in this community don’t truly realize how difficult it is to produce something like this, especially without loads of money to keep it going.
Absolutely mad respect Liam.
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I don’t mean to interrupt serious esk8 conversations and development, can someone please tell me about those cool looking R ZERO wheels (sorry if this has already been covered I couldn’t find it)
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Wdym? If I drive for 35 minutes in any direction I’ll still be in my province lmao.
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They are radium’s Prototype wheels. 608 bearings. 120mm proprietary rubber foam sort of wheel. Kegel holes for drive gear interface. ETA 2023/2024?
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This is the right way to make a wheel.
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Hasn’t officially been covered. Work in progress…
Have exhausted a lot of manufacturing methods to make airless rubber wheels.
The V1 prototypes were the best wheels we’ve ever tested by a long way. But the manufacturing process was not and could not be made reliable.
We are using V2 currently which is a more reliable manufacturing method although has its issues including not being able to have a foam core.
We are working on V3 currently and will be spending some time at the factory in China to speed up the development cycle and get them done. The plan is to not leave China until we’ve made V3 work.
Wheels are very important to me. They are like the shoes of your board. You wouldn’t want to walk around in hard urethane shoes all day. It would also suck to wear spongey pneumatic shoes that could get punctures and didn’t provide much feedback of what you’re standing on.
So the foam we used on the V1 wheels is literally the same foam used in sports shoes. And there’s something about the way they ride that just feels “right”.
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These were either V1 or V2 , i cant recall but they were easily the grippiest, most comfortable, confidence inspiring wheel both in the dry and the wet, gravel… whatever… that ive ever used.
In the time that i used them, i was unable to even come close to finding where they lost traction at the front, I gave up trying to find it, i was gunna hurt (skill issue)
Ive been trying extremely hard not to buy other wheels waiting for these to officially launch.
No affiliation, just a happy test bunny.
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Same, I’ve been waiting so long maybe now I just buy the board lol
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Maybe that’s been his plan all along
Guess I’ll ask again since it was ignored. How is it shit? Genuinely want to know.
Yeah I might have jumped the gun abit, seems theres abit more hardware involved in the RTS thing than what I thought. If sensory hardware needs to be added then it obviously makes sense. So thats my bad.
I dont mean to offend anyone, just trying to have an open discussion and to understand why theres seems to be such major disappointments, if its so shit then develop something better?
Since the Vesc is so open and widely accessible, dont you think its abit ironic to produce hardware that does cool stuff side by side but heavily relies on the Vesc to make financial profit and then be all gloom about maintaing some SW during updates? Thats a risk you’ll have to live with, if thats unacceptable then I’d go a different route.
I’m not saying collaborations with the vescproject is flawless, but hes one guy working with the capacity of 10 people. Expecting him to solve and please everyone is not realistic.
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Have you made this request or just wishing for it to happen?.
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I was fortunate enough to bump into him when I studied, fact that I live quite close is just pure luck.
Maybe a stupid question but why is he still working on his own? Isnt there enough resources to work as a team on it?
Edit: maybe we shouldnt talk about this in the Radium thread.
I do love the concept of this board, personally ive not heard of torque steer concept but seeing that i constantly have to manage my board from oversteering when carving and racing shows me there is a big potential in it.
Also isnt raspberri pi open source aswell?
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