Wireless PS2 Controlled Electric Mountainboard

[MrExcelent666]

me also hawe great progect for electric skateboard is woow but i am too por to macke alive 600$ is too mach for me if some one licke write on is licke long board but real monster 22 kg with driving pover system so iven harcore mountyns do not macke problem to ride and of corse 4x4 drive

[KidRP]

Wow you have come a long way mate :) cheers

[parkora]

wooooww! i want it! now!

[pabbananna]

you messaged that you can run 45 min strait wide open - no problems with motor overheating?

[ProfWorminkle]

I want it. No, wait... i NEED it!

[Intrabeldin]

I love the glove idea that you used! The original video made me want to build my own. got everything but the battery and the motor controller atm. I'm gonna use my arduino with a Wii controller though

[aguzman11189]

@Intrabeldin Sounds great! Make a video of it when you finish the project; it'd be nice to see :)

[TTHOROUGH]

Awesome, great work.

[aguzman11189]

@TTHOROUGH Thanks!

[4harrytje]

can you tell me: how much hp do you need?

[aguzman11189]

@4harrytje Yea sure! So I was able to get away with something around 1 HP. It's a bit much, really. Motor needs an initial push in order to really start spinning, so even if you have something like 2 HP but try and start it at zero velocity, the thing won't move. Once you push yourself a bit, you can really feel the torque if it's 2 HP (which it is right now because I thought the other one was broken and figured it would be better to get more than less than necessary).

[4harrytje]

@aguzman11189 thanks for your fast response it realy helped me out, and saved me a lot of unnecessarily prototyping.

[aguzman11189]

@4harrytje Anytime! Later and good luck :)

[cxrodformrx]

Epic

[o3livius]

Dude you rock! It's awesome!

[aguzman11189]

@o3livius Thanks!

[kevluv93]

I feel so dumb right now. I can't even fix my DVD player when it breaks down and this guy created a motorized skateboard using a PS2 controller he made wireless. Fuck

[aguzman11189]

@kevluv93 Bro, this should be the video that gets you to think that you can create whatever comes to your mind; not make you think that you're dumb :) Just takes hard work, persistence, and motivation and you too can do things like this. No lie!

[robsman1]

That cool add a ski in front and tread in back and put it in Canada lol

[aaarubalaaa]

Can I buy that of him?

[aguzman11189]

@aaarubalaaa LoL how much do you have? hahaha

[EldarSK8]

Fake!!!

[aguzman11189]

@EldarSK8 No! My Oakleys are definitely real.

[affluenceclm]

REAL Free energy technology exists!But Elite controllers don't want ppl to be free from the costs of energy,Find a motor that needs no fuel or input at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM ,Start the revolution!

[irreversibledamage]

Andres Guzman-Ballen for President!

[zychda]

Hi Andres, I'm curious about a couple of things on your board. What brushless motor are you using (what kV rating, using hall sensors)? Also what gear ratio and tire size did you put on your board? It looks like your board has plenty of torque . I built (am still modifying) an electric longboard myself and thought yours seems to work well. Good job.

[aguzman11189]

@zychda @zychda Just realized I never replied! Let's see...I'm using a Hacker brushless motor with a 430 kV rating I believe and there are no hall sensors. The gear ratio is 9:1 and the tire size is 8 inches.

[aguzman11189]

The board definitely does have lots of torque! There's a feature on the brushless motor controller (Castle Creations) that I used which doesn't let me accelerate too fast but I can definitely feel it! I have written other stuff on hackaday.com. Anything else, just ask!

[gtorresjr]

This is awesome!

[illinoisBienesRaices]

Nice board ! i am the guy that sell to you the board in Chicago ! we will need this kind of board in Chicago because there is no wind for our kites !!!

Regards

[HumboldtStoner420]

Go check out my electric mountainboard. search "Electric Mountainboard Following school bus up hill"

[blackleaf12]

This is sooo cool. 8*)

[JBVries]

it would be great if you could make an instructables tutorial. I'd love to see the in depth How To. Good work. Cheers!

[VE3n0m]

A piece of engineering right there :P

Just wish you'd put a break on the Square button or something ^^

[karimigui]

Andres, your mom sent me the link to this video..... AWESOME!!! AWESOME.....

[FordPerfect]

fuck the jetpack. i want THIS!

[JetStorm17277]

@FordPerfect imagine... A Jetpack or airplane controlled by a wireless Ps3 or Xbox Controller..... If they did it with the wii, that would be dangerous.

[AtlasClassics]

Meanwhile, he doesn't bother to clip the shoulder straps (an engineer designed) together to keep the backpack load from shifting in turns.

[AremuTV]

Sweet board. I want now

[wrenthereaper]

engineering for the win!! motion controllers are tricksy little hobbtises but pretty rewarding when you get them to work lol.

[snowy0110]

ps2 controller ahah)) Cool. I like it !

[qwertz123]

cool .... It's a great idea.... what's the maximum distance you can go by batterie? You plan on selling this? I think a lot of people would buy it, it's better than a Segway because it's smaller and easier to transport ;)

[aguzman11189]

@qwertz123 So the maximum distance is maybe around 10 miles. I don't have any plans on selling this because the problem with making this and selling it would be making it cheap enough for people to purchase and I would earn enough money to make it worth while. The equipment I used is expensive.

Luckily, the Student Branch of IEEE at the University of Illinois @ Urbana Champaign have something called SEED projects where someone has an idea and they'll slowly help fund it so I made it for free.

[aguzman11189]

@qwertz123 The LiFePO4 battery cost like $350, the brushless motor cost around $100, the board from eBay around $120, the brushless motor controller around $100, the Arduino Bluetooth around $120 (although in hindsight I realize I could've built one for cheap....very stupid of me), the controller cost me around $20, it all adds up. If I want to stand out, I'd want to make the board very cheap but it'd be hard for me to stand out in the market. I dunno...we'll see what happens.

[diyengineer]

very nice! Convert that chain drive to Kevlar core belts and it will run more quiet.

[DangODave]

Pretty cool! So 2HP? at 10.2V you must be using a 150 amp or better esc to control the thing, right? Is that what the fan on the back is for?

[aguzman11189]

@DangODave So the maximum amperage that can come out of the battery is 40 A and the highest voltage output is 25.6 volts, so basically the max watts that can be used up is 1024 W. I bought the motor more because of the RPM per volt rating than the HP. I found that motors in the market with higher power input tend to have lower RPM was and I wanted a low gear ratio since too high of a ratio is bulky and unnecessary. Thus, the motor I got was a balance of the RPM and power that I wanted.

[aguzman11189]

@aguzman11189 The 10.2 Ah indicated that it can output 10.2 amps for an hour, Ah being amphour.

[DangODave]

@aguzman11189 It's a neat build all around. I was just double checking my calcs to have a place to start fishing on ebay! Thanks.

Some years back I used to try and shorten my life with a go-cart with a half horse motor; having more than you need just requires self-discipline. Or luck...

[yasmanz]

nice one :) keep doing (y)

[lostindaplot]

Are You going to add battery charging feature on riding downhill?

[aguzman11189]

@lostindaplot I considered adding that feature when I read about the regenerative braking concept, but I had a hard time finding a motor controller that allowed current to travel in reverse without frying the component. Also, the friction in the gears slow the board down if I go past a certain speed. Using the board now, it seems like the energy saved isn't worth the extra components (which would increase the probability of the board failing and add complexity) so in the end, I didn't add it.

[xyxy1024]

Far more awesome than segway! What is the usable range?

[aguzman11189]

@xyxy1024 Thanks! Hmm...so I guess the milage would be perhaps around 10 miles? I don't know for sure; I use it to get to classes and get around from my apartment to the main campus and I've gone 2 consecutive days without charging it. The battery was basically dead on the end of the second day, but yeah...I've never tried to find out the exact number.

[SonicJGB]

Good job Andres. Now I finally see that it's fully functional and it works.