Track Form
Street Form
The Sound
How we started:
Alright @Shadowfax lets do this. My sneak peak/dedicated thread of things to come for 2023s race board category (cause we doing that right @ShutterShock lol).
The board and trucks:
I thought the Odashi was big but here’s the Northcamp laid over top. Let’s see how long this takes…
The Goal:
Dye work:
Sanded down the sides so that I could dye it red. I could’ve done some things better like tape it off and been more careful sanding (late at night and tired), but happy with it.
Grip:
For the grip I started with some doodles with the idea of a comet as inspiration. The design also had to work with the constraint of the Vicious grip tape coming in 4 separate squares instead of one big sheet.
I was happy with how my final sketch came out, but then overnight I decided that it’d be cool to have a different pattern for each end instead of being symmetrical, keeping in theme with the directional board. So, after some additional sketches to make it somewhat cohesive I was happy and transferred that to the board. After that it was painstaking work on cutting out the design and transferring that to the grip and back to the board.
Battery:
Was only going to do 20s6p at first and have a complicated layout where I could run wires down the middle. But this would require split groups.
Note, this layout takes up quite a bit of space since it uses 8 rows. @Shadowfax pointed out to me that if I just double stacked three per row I could eliminate one row:
I really liked the idea of having much more space, but then OCD kicked in there’d be an open spot so conveniently for another p group. It had to be filled, and once again Evan pushed me over the edge. Alright the rest is history and a straightforward battery build. Had to run some wires diagonally but not too bad. K photo dump:
Internals:
Printed a dual ESC tray holder to hold everything together, and give support to the BMS without crushing any wires.
Measuring how much I’d need to extend the phase cables in the front
Robogotchi+GPS, remote receiver, shielded can cable with twisted wires, and power button cables all hooked up. Split the SW wire of the power button to be able to power both ESCs on. Had to redo the can cable at least once and I didn’t end up grounding to one ESC, maybe later if I seem to be getting a lot of interference.
Everything connected and heat shrinked together.
