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.
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
Today is my birthday and I got a super cool helmet from my girlfriend! She loves what I do but wants me to ride safe!
I don’t know if you guys recall hackaday post entitle “1480W scooter motor guarantees head trauma“? There was a pretty intense debate on helmet use! 79 comments in total! Charles from MIT also had is word on the use of helmet. He also has more crazy rolling device but does not wear a helmet.
I was able to stick my GoPRO on it. I had my GoPRO for more then 1 year now. Very useful and great video quality. I do have a lot of videos of the scooter but did not edit them. Working on it. I am right now working on something else… look at the picture and tell me what you see…
Btw, my last internship day is friday!! After that it’s scooter and robot sumo time! I also have an important final years engineering project that has to be done before class start at the end of this month. Well, the project ends in December but we did I work hard this summer. There is one last important thing to be done. No worries, I will have tons of info coming in a few months.
I am 100% you saw this in the news a couples of weeks ago.
I was blown away by the design until I read a comment that linked to this:
This is NC one V2
In my personal opinion, I think that the bolt holding the motor should be replace by something else. There is 4 of them, it’s heavy! When I worked in Hong Kong, on RC toys helicopters they use to remove every single grams of weight they could! 1 grams can change everything on very small craft like this one. I would of tried a press fit plastic adapter. The plastic adapter clips in the PCB and the motors is the press fit.
Look at that sexy components layout! Very well done!
They get a normal squared PCB and they cut with the CNC.
Here is NC one v1
Very small!
You can visit there website here : http://www.nanokopter.at/tiki_v6/ ( in German). They are working on V3! It should be ready this summer… June 2011.
If you like flying things, check this other amazing German builder: http://www.smartflyer.de/index.html (In German) He has been building quadracopter for years!
If you know about other small quadracopter, please leave a comment!
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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 
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