This electric longboard is designed for the ultimate carving experience no matter the terrain, and with a clever design, it can easily swap its wheels
Took a look around on what the DIY scene looks like right now.
With an existing board, I might grab a kit for the electronics from flipsky, and look at buildkitboards for their modular battery and enclosure system. Going that route, using VESC based systems, means you’d need to get comfortable with understanding and configuring the electronics using the VESCTool PC program, as well as wiring the various components together.
The other option is buying the relevant parts of a hobbywing-based production board from a brand like backfire, verreal or wowgo, and bolting them onto your board.
There’s the “mellow” kit which looks similar to the revel kit, except it uses hub motors instead of direct-drive. That means you’d be relying on urethane sleeves which are really uncomfortable compared to full wheels, and potentially difficult to source replacements of, as you can’t just use any wheel.
Not being able to use regular wheels is an automatic pass from me lol, thanks for the advice!
That’s why the G2T ended up as my only hub-drive board. I didn’t buy another.
Direct-drive and gear-drive also allow for the use of any wheel one might like, and don’t consume belts.
Revel was kind of the ideal kit, everything just bolted on to the existing screw-holes, and the motors were direct-drive.
Ok, I have another question: What happens if you drop the controller, it dies, or otherwise malfunctions? Does the board just stop? Keep doing whatever it was doing?
