and thats the entire problem
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printed with non yellowing epoxy infill in generative design drawn cavities for structure.
Generative design and DLMS are the future imo. Bouncing a 3d printed titanium ball on a concrete floor blew my mind on what is and isn’t possible; and accessible to anyone with deep enough pockets…for now. 3D printing plastic was once prohibitively expensive and now sits on our desks. When we have dlms printers on our desk and affordable material to put in it…. That’s heaven right there.
When generative design and fusion360 were completely free I was making all sorts of awesome looking structures with very little user input. Good times.
I was contemplating this very idea for days now. I was too shy to speak out before turning it into a thing in fusion 360. But when I am done, if it looks fine this would be my number one choice.
But I see many obstacles all over the place for this scenario to happen, but hey, that’s the beauty of diy trying to solve them.
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Ride height would be ridiculous and you’d lose pretty much all of your flex. Don’t wanna shit in anyone’s weetbix, but i’m going to anyway. It sounds dumb.
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Fully agree with @Kai - call it what you will, tomato potato, what we’re talking about is a reinforced wood enclosure/area that can take a hit.
Ride height, tip angles, wheel size, clearance can all be dialed in through existing means. Point is that the current crop of bottom mount enclosures aren’t really designed to survive off-road and this bro+bro would.
Current street builds lose all their flex too…so? That can be designed for, or sacrificed.
Battery vs deck position is all relative
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2022, year of the double deck abomination builds.
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I wasn’t talking about sandwich deck build. I was developin top mounted battery utilizing the whole deck area.
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The eternal struggle is ground clearance vs deck room and center of gravity
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Hmm. Thats a different story… but still… ride height. I like being as low as possible, any height you put between your feet and your axles dramatically affects your handling
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I almost did that when the markone decks were stupid cheap ($35). If someone did it with a flexy deck so the double layer didn’t make it feel like concrete.
This always leads me back to:
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Poor hammer
I have a sketch for that somewhere, but can’t find right now
It was one layer of cells on the whole board, 3 cells wide I think, and in the center if needed more layers
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This one is inspiring (even if not practical at all 
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I was thinking about something like that too. Perhaps on a full-size PCB with integrated simple BMS to keep it all flat.
The p-groups’ nickel tabs are soldered to the PCB which has mounting holes to hold everything in place. Perhaps RTV and/or wire ties to hold the p-groups but the top plate could also be shaped to conform to, and hold, the p-groups.
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I have been finalizing my design for an esc case for the past few days. I plan to get a few manufactured… maybe more if people are interested.
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Sure would be great if we had developed standards for heatsink or even ESC mounting pattern.
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I think those are great ideas but the market might be too small to find a clear consensus?
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I love the idea of standardization, but we’re a very small industry. You can probably think of at least 3/4 of the esk8 specific brands off the top of your head. As a baby industry, the variety is bound to be here right now, and standards will develop over time as we figure out what actually works best. See: the migration to 22mm square hanger profile that’s slowly happening.
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