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dude this is sick. Are you located in NYC? I sense an accent…
If so, i’d love to see this thing in person! The video had me sold, I hope you make more.
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Very cool! Also love your sense of humor. Your vid made me laugh more than once. The biggest choking hazard for baby engineers. LOL 
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Ahdunno whuchyur talkin’ bout. Whaddya think that fer? 
Heck yeah though, i definitely want to get on some group rides when it’s done. You part of any one in particular?
@janpom glad you liked it! I aim to produce the best worst humor possible.
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Yes, we have an offshoot of NYCEBOARDING called PEVNYC. We use telegram to plan group rides, mostly in manhattan, which some in brookyn.
Also, if this is your only board, I don’t mind lending you one of mine to use until yours is manhattan ready
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Thanks, that’s a kind offer. But again, the reason I’m doing weight shift is cuz my arms are potato, I’d probably regret doing a whole ride on one of yours. I experimented with an RC car and 10 minutes is kinda my limit lol.
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It’s alive. IT’S ALIIIIIIIIVE!!!
Still need to:
- finish balance wires
- mount enclosure lids
- frit the deck
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I know that feeling. I’m so happy for you!
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Thanks! I assume the half second of thinking that something shorted when the detection starts is a universal experience, yes? 
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100%
welcome to the club 
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So, first and foremost I would like to remark that
H O L Y
fUcKiNG
shit
these things are way more fun with motors. But y’all knew that already. 
I got the board running pretty good but there’s a few action items left:
- While the way I use my body is very important in controlling the tendency for the acceleration to surge (my mass and the stiffness of my legs are part of a mass-spring system along with the board’s control system, and e.g. going limp makes the board go crazy), there are still probably ways to help damp this in software “a la d-term”. I’ll keep testing.
- The amplifiers appear to exhibit a kind of settling, or drift: if I lean forward for throttle for an extended period of time, the system “gets used to it” and I need to continue leaning further and further forward. Gets pretty annoying. I think that I can patch this in software as well.
- At the end of the day I discovered a crack in the glue joint holding the retaining ring that the enclosure cover screws on to (!!!). I done goofed here, I kind of rushed through that part of the structure. I will be re-gluing and adding mechanical fasteners.
[Post #2 updated with finished build pics!]
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Bro, i have to say, watching your videos have been a goddamn pleasure!! While there were points where i thought to myself “this can’t end well…” this is some of my favorite shit I’ve seen on the forum. This is both amazing and terrifying as shit at the same time. Gotta hand it to you tho, fucking good work dudde 
i want one
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Thank you so much! And don’t lose hope, there’s still time left for it to end badly 
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The ride video is incredible! Personally, i love the tuning process - you get to experiment with (finally) working hardware!
Such an awesome machine. Maybe i missed it earlier, but what’s your enclosure setup like? Are you able to remove a panel to futz with electronics on either end?
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I totally relate to that comment. When I first came across this thread I was like “what the hell is he thinking” but in your later vids you made it clear that you know exactly what you’re doing and you managed to make it work, which is astonishing. This is one of the most amazing and most innovative stuff I’ve see here. Well done! 
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Bruhhhh this video is hilarious
Your reaction after the first test was amazing
It also looks incredibly scary to test and ride
Did you find it hard to find a neutral point where you were neither decelerating or accelerating?
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I too am pleasantly surprised by how well it works! 
Awesome video as always!
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Thanks everyone! I too am glad that it turned out I knew what I’m doing.
Yeah, when you flip the board upside down the structure forms a “tub” at each end, and I have a flat panel that screws onto each one. The screws go into nylock nuts that are embedded in plywood, so that solid, but the part that failed was the glue joint between that horizontal piece of plywood and the vertical walls of the structure.
Only when there was no expo. I might need to add a little bit of dead band back in, but freewheeling isn’t too hard. I do have to be consciously attempting to free wheel though, unlike a remote where you just let go.
Haha that’s why I started so slow. But it became clear pretty quickly that it wasn’t going to rip my face off. Since the acceleration always comes after you lean into it, taking off and braking feels very natural. As I continue ironing out the quirks it hopefully will feel like it isn’t even there.
I can feel that it is possible for the board to throw me if I go all ragdoll on it and relax, so it’s always going to require discipline to ride. But I’m used to that from rollerblading, where I think the requirements are actually more stringent lol.
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Very interesting haha yeah I’m sure it would keep you on your highest level of awareness
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Only when I juice it, lol. Cruising is pretty simple.