Like you probably know, I was doing a intern this summer. My good friend Rudy, did a intern at this place where they play with electric vehicle and other cool stuff. Toward the end of his intern he told me that the company was moving so there where throwing stuff out. He send me pictures of what they where getting rid of! After seen the picture I had a OMG face! He told me that he will give me those things if I would trade something. That something is a video of school projet he did back in 2009. He build a musical Tesla coil and we had 4 feet long fluorescent lamp on the desk, connected to nothing, that was lighting up. So yes we did trade and I got what I wanted!
Here it is:
Yes I also got this ZAP electric belt driven scooter. It has inflatable wheels.
It looks like an Altered electric skate board http://www.alteredelectricskateboards.com/boards.htm. A cheaper version.
It’s probably a 200 to 300W motor. Or it could be 600W, I am pretty sure it’s 600W. Here is the china version of it
http://fangda.en.hisupplier.com/product-6295-Electric-Skateboards.html
Like you probably imagine, I already started to make it apart.
It is in a very good shape. The problem is, the remote control. It use a wireless remote control! I don’t have it and Rudy was not able to find it. No a problem right. I did try some reverse engineering to see if I could directly send signal to the motor controller. Not really. The controller does not receive a simple analog signal. I took the controller apart and saw a microcontroller under the thick black epoxy. I guest it receive serial data from the RF receiver. OR it’s simply broken!
My first idea is to design and build my own electronics using a Wii remote control! It’s a DC motor, should not be that hard!
After some searching, there is a couple of skateboard company
http://www.e-glide.com/
http://www.rokitscience.co.uk/
http://www.alteredelectricskateboards.com/
http://www.2c-boards.de/
http://www.elektroskate.co.uk/ (My antivirus tells me not to go there)
http://www.mo-bo.de/