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By Jerome, November 20, 2009 8:00 am

I was surfing the web and found this awesome build by some guys at MIT. They made this scooter during a summer engineering workshop.

http://web.mit.edu/first/scooter/

They design and made there own 590W hub motor. Not only one motor but 2 motors! 2 wheels drive scooter!

Me and my friend Jérôme ( yes, one of my good friend is also name Jérôme and we always work together so it is Jérôme² ) are thinking/planning of making our own hub motor for a scooter.  On the BWD scooter website, there is some pretty good info and mathz equations to make your own. Worth looking into.

This is pretty darn sick! Those motors are really powerfull.

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By Jerome, November 16, 2009 5:44 pm

Check out my project I made for Solarbotics. It is a rolling robot inside a plastic ball.

If you want to build your own wanna be miniball, please visit :

http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-Miniball-Wannabe/

This is the first time trying to embed a instructables!

Solar Powered Miniball Wannabe -- More DIY How To Projects

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By Jerome, November 6, 2009 8:58 am

I have been searching the web for all kind of interesting stuff and found many good things.

Lately I have been following thread of this forum

http://endless-sphere.com/forums/index.php

This forum is a gold mine for people studying and making electric vehicule.

When searching, I found this thread
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6892

and here is the specific post to download the software.
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6892&start=75#p119810

You can also make some graph  that can be useful.

You can enter all your info about vehicule to get some pretty good result. It give a good idea on the speed you can achieve. I am still skeptic about the distance I can go with the scooter compare to what the simulator told me. That is something I will be testing when I get my new motor.

Member swbluto is the creator of the simulator you just saw. He is also making a electric scooter.

You can follow the thread here: http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7638