Wireless PS2 Controlled Electric Mountainboard

My name is Andres Guzman-Ballen and I'm a senior majoring in computer engineering at the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign.

Thanks to the detrimental changes of the bus routes at UIUC, I had to resort to either skateboarding everywhere, walking, or riding a bike to get around campus. All would require more effort than I wanted to put in to get around and that's when I came up with the idea.

This isn't an original idea since there are already electric skateboards out there in the market and some people have made their own electric mountainboards as well but in my opinion, they weren't efficient in any manner. Most use lead batteries, brush motors, a bulky skateboard design, and are wired (which to me isn't as cool). This makes it incredibly heavy (45-60 lb) since a 10 volt lead battery can weigh 10-15 pounds alone and a brush motor to power a skateboard usually needs at least around 24 volts to be decent. A good brush motor can weigh 10 lbs as well. There's a spiral where the heavier the board, the stronger the equipment has to be and this in itself makes it heavier. Many also limit their designs to the skateboard.

I chose a mountainboard because the truck design allows the rider to carve more since the center of gravity is lower than a skateboard. Because it is designed to bend and absorb impacts and still be very strong (with the carbon fiber and fiberglass combo), riding it feels as if you are surfing in the street. I use a 25.6 V 10.2 Ah LiFePO4 battery and it weighs only 6 lbs! The brushless motor that I use only weighs 0.6 lbs and the board that I bought from eBay weighs about 18 lbs. If you add that up with the material supporting all that, it weighs about 30 lbs. It can go up to 20 mph but I usually ride around 10 to 15 since I want to live long enough to enjoy it.

If you have any questions, check out this detailed Instructables link that I made: http://www.instructables.com/id/Wireless-Glove-Controlled-Electric-Mountainbo.... That should hopefully give you all insight into what it was I did, my thought process, and the sort.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• electric mountainboard
• playstation 2
• arduino
• electric skateboard
• lithium
• uiuc
• ECE
• engineering

[TTHOROUGH]

Awesome, great work.

[aguzman11189]

@TTHOROUGH Thanks!

[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!

[aguzman11189]

@EldarSK8 No!  My Oakleys are definitely real.

[FordPerfect]

fuck the jetpack. i want THIS!

[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?

[aguzman11189]

@aaarubalaaa LoL how much do you have? hahaha

[ProfWorminkle]

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

[aguzman11189]

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