Don’t you worry, building out a personal Bro Carver as well and it will be bad ass.
I am updating my entire fleet (this industry/community fucking flies, tech wise). All my bad ass shit that was amazing a year ago is so… meh… at this point.
Time to fucking upgrade!
It is advertising… right? 
I design a few electronics-related things and have a couple of PCB manufacturers I work with to directly order. With that said- JLPCB is a great source for prototyping, I use them as well for smaller orders I need quickly.
As I said, I will have 12S4P Battery kits + custom nickel tabs that make assembly super simple. These should be available by end of this month/early next and I’ll make a post about them. I’ll also be open sourcing the PCB files so you’re welcome to make your own too.
What are you trying to say about us normies!?
Fuck this shit. I’m going back to boosted 
Sounds like you’re gonna have some amazing shit for sale pretty soon 
Are you me or do we just share the same addiction?
What software do you use?
I started doing it in Eagle but it’s quite tricky trying to avoid 150x150x limit(no components, all drawn manually).
Get a life
I use Altium, EagleCAD, and PADS (at gunpoint, if I must).
If you are just getting started I would highly recommend giving KiCad a shot. At this point its pretty much as fully featured as Eagle (which has gotten a huge boost from the Autodesk buyout 5 years ago) and totally free/Open Source. I think @Deodand has recently started digging into using it over Altium and I’ve waiting for a good project to dig in and give it a try myself. It’s come highly recommended to me by a few.
I made not one PCB design using Eagle so I know all the basics, but then it’s been a while since the last project, and at work they make me use Proteus…
Come talk to me when you outgrow your Matrix 2’s Franny. 
Give KiCAD a spin.
Been on hypertrucks before. “First Nazare in the Bay Area. Long before they came to replace all boosted boards” And personally I think matrix 2 are well balanced for my riding style
Been there done that I’ve chosen what I like 
I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, you don’t really know a board/trucks until you’ve put a couple thousand miles on it.
Now stop getting distracted and get back to texting me n00ds.
I mean if you try hard then you can get something half decent out of Proteus:
Bahahahaha 
I have no doubt that Proteus is super capable. The issue with any software that old (like PADs or even Altium to an extent) is that they get cemented into specific industries and then are fearful to make any big changes that might rock the boat and piss off their corporate customer base (which usually hold hundreds of seat licenses). This ends up with the code base and feature-set stagnating because ‘it’s not broke, don’t fix it’ and the thought of investing R&D into a secondary product isn’t as appealing to most of these companies that already have a foothold in the market & a solid primary product offering. Most secondary efforts fail.
Good example of how this can be addressed: Autodesk Inventor & Auotdesk Fusion. Inventor exists in a similar state as it’s release- They have improved functionality and removed bugs, refined UI, but they don’t veer off the beaten path far. They spun up the Fusion project as an experimental platform to test out new/weird/notoriously buggy features and it eventually grew into its own standalone CAD software (it was originally browser based when people were trying to figure out what to do with web apps).
Now there’s even a Fusion ‘tab’ in Inventor, that brought over compatible/experimental features proven out in Fusion into Inventor. It’s an interesting upstream/downstream model that actually worked. Fusion & Inventor started as cousins and are now closer to half siblings.
On FlexPCB Battery topic: Here’s another one, a 12S4P 21700 I worked on with @Kaly (his batteries are prettier than mine tho)
One thing to note on these is that the PCB is not carrying any actual load current, only the balance traces carry any current (bleed off level) and they’re thick enough to handle it. The nickel is welded in place, then folded over onto the next P-group nickel, welded, & soldered in place.
Anyway, Non-consensual TED Talks are my kink. Sorry.
See, by knowing that this is the case, if you really give it your best effort, 50% of the time you will insert it first-try. The USB gods must love me, because it feels like I get it in first try like 9/10 times.
I’m so mad right now 
Random BMS failure?
No it’s completely my fault. Which is the more annoying thing. I unplugged one of my series leads to reorganize the wiring and make it fit, and it grazed the bms.
It was like 30v of my pack so you can imagine the power that went through in 0.5 seconds. It obliterated that one smd resistor
