This is great!
Thank you for sharing it! I’ve been looking for one of these.
Still really liking the remote. Using 1 remote for 2 boards on almost daily basis withlout any issues sofar.
Still hope we some developement in the possibilities with the screen
Future request:
-I/o control for lights, horn, switch off pts switch
-Profile selection
-Data logging for stats and stuff without phone
-Same control modes as PPM receiver
-Odometer
-All data available like - dual motor temps/Battery Voltage/ Motor current values
-Max values after a ride
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There is lot we can do in future. Benjamin Vedder has focused on VESC-Tool lateley, allowing HFI, Unity support etc. We need to nail one thing after another.
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Understandable, but would be nice to have as min the switch into CC only from 5km/h implemented in the near future 
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It will be from start, so that you can actually use it to start your board from zero speed. We will use another trick to determine if CC should jump in or not.
I don’t mind what regulates it, but jumping into CC mode every second time I switch on the remote is shit. Wonder why not more people complained about that. Maybe it’s because or my slow fat fingers 
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Used it for a while without even knowing that, I always turn on with the right button xD
CC ramps up pretty slow and when you turn on the Wand you just give it that short click.
If you have it in HFI you might hear that HFI noise when switching on the Wand.
Next FW will have this sorted.
I’m pissed of that too.
So now I switch the Wand on with the right button but then, I need to scrool all the page to come back on the speed screen.
I couldn’t succeed to set an environement up for compiling the FW.
Otherwise, I’d have give some ideas a try for that issue.
Anyone had success into compiling the WAND FW ?
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Yes, it wasn’t terribly difficult to compile on Ubuntu. My main hiccups were that new zephyr has some different directories for includes, sys/ instead of misc/. Probably easier if you pull the same version of zephyr Ben used. You build out zephyr project on your machine then run cmake and make as described in the readme and everything seemed to work. Took me maybe an hour to get setup.
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If the wand potentiometers are breaking, would it not be benificial to mechanically redesign to use bearings or bronze bushings and a spring for return and use an analog hall sensor for position sensing?
This way the force carrying elements are all metal and not a plastic game controller grade joystick?
Considering the case is already milled and at this price point it certainly warrants it.
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I unfortunately dropped my wand today on the pavement and it still works, but on the speedometer screen when I’m not touching the throttle the it shows the input constantly moving up and down slightly.
Anything I can do to fix? Concerned it may get worse with time.
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Only around the centre?
Is it possible to deactivate the CC?
I have no use for it and even if the left button is not reassigned to something else I would rather see it gone.
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Yeah only around the centre of the screen. When I push the throttle up or down it stays steady on the screen.
Any plans to be able to rotate a pentameter of your choice in the center of the main screen inside red square of pic, for example instead of Km/h, change it to voltage % that adjust according to voltage sag? Someone else might prefer to put in motor temp, etc.
I’m aware that those things are available, but in separate screens that needs to be cycled over.
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There is an adjustable deadband around the centre, if your motors do not react to the tiny input, you are fine.
We have the potentiometers in stock and soldering in a new joystick is not tragic. 10 mins job for someone who can solder.
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The Wand uses a microprocessor and therefore it’s all a matter of software code.
Currently Benjamin tries to nail some other things (VESC-Tool 3 and FW 5).
With more resources, more things can be done in a shorter period of time.
Unfortunately our resources need to be used wisely. Since the FW is OS, maybe some other
software engineers can try to modify the code and send in pull requests.
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In a somewhat unrelated note does anybody have issues with the cruise control from hell in the slave vesc? Works fine holding the cruise on the master but the slave will just continuously accelerate. This is with 2 different wands and on different boards.
I actually had an issue where cc just went full throttle. I attempted to bump up my speed by holding down the cc button for a second. Boom full throttle!
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