I was thinking big boi motors like these tbdd’s got, but higher kv, and with gears inside the tire hubs. Alternatively, one could perhaps design a planetary drive with 10 planet gears that could fit kegel cores, but that would be ridiculously small and complicated.
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I got my brother-in-law into eskates and we have been building crazy stuff since then. His latest idea is a fully customizable modular mountainboard mould, that can be configured with tip angles from 10 to 50 degrees, length from 70 to 100cm and variable camber from 10 to 90 (!!!) mm. We tested it yesterday with a pretty radical config:
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I love the lab coat 
The mold is pretty epic too!
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Yeah, trying to not get epoxy all over EVERYTHING is tough xD
Inside the mould there’s an actual prototype deck, half carbon half maple. I really tried to convince him that camber is absolutely massive, but he wouldn’t listen. I’ll keep you guys updated 
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street cred +100
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Remember this? The first attempt was a total failure, but after reconfiguring it in a non-insane setting and modifying the procedure…check this out:
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Nice, now to cut out the shape and give it some nice trim.
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Healthy amount of clamps on there, looks like it’s going to turn out pretty good!
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What material did you use for the base of the mold?
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Wierd idea: what about a selfbalance mode for eskate which could lift up the board on just 2 Wheels vertically and then with some kind of “follow me” mode via smartphone?
So the board could follow you (your phone) through lets say the supermarket without taking much space. Would be cool when the batteries are empty as well…just dreaming.
I think it could be pretty easy to do for some genius heads in here
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I’ve seen a few people program a “wheelie mode” using an IMU with their VESC so it’s completely doable.
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Who did program the wheelie mode? Brian is working on wheelie mode as well.
this board has wheelie mode
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I have these little thermistors that i planned on putting in some motors but never got around to it.
Would i be able to hook this up to the temp and gnd of the sensor pins on the esc and measure the temp of anything in my enclosure? 
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Just use the thermistor or your smart bms.
If any existing thermistor is disconnected and yours has the right resistance and beta value (a thermistor spec) then theoretically it should work.
Firmly tape down the thermistor and a bit of its wiring to the surface you are measuring the temp of and use a bit of thermal paste or any epoxy to help increase the amount of heat transferred to the sensor bead. Its round shape makes it terrible at measuring the temp of anything flat or convex so you need to embed the thermistor in something to help transfer the heat. Otherwise you will read too low a temp if the surface is heating up.
It also takes about a minute for the sensor to come up to the temp of the surface it’s attached to. This means if the temp it is measuring is changing all the time that you will always read too low or too high a temp.
But thermistors are inexpensive and the actual temp reading typically isn’t critical so they are a very popular way to measure temps.
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Yep its definitely the right thermistor, and it will be installed nice and snug where it needs to be, i just wondered if the sensor port on the vesc would even work if the positive wasn’t connected to anything.
My smart bms is a balance charger.
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Argghh….I glossed right over that. Someone else will have to chime in regarding that.
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Also, does it matter which leg of the thermistor gets connected to which pin?
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