Took all day to get the sync right but Arming is now possible. Should be able to start testing with a hobby ESC tomorrow 
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Argggggg I hate work sometimes. Like the past 6 months. Probably the next 2 years. But oh well.
So first & foremost, this past 4th of July (MURICA!!! HAPPY BDAY <333) I was out riding in my usual spot around 2200. I’m coming up over this slight hill at about 25mph and I see an old woman and her equally old dog making their way across the street. I start getting on the brakes expecting her to make her way across by time I get there. NOPE. I start REALLY getting on the brakes and the back end of the board starts fishtailing, and I’m about 25 feet away. So I dump the board, and this poor woman almost loses it apologizing and thanking me for taking the spill…
So right now the original VESC I repaired failed again, this time a DRV related error. New VESC comes in tomorrow, and in the mean time I’ve been getting some battery work done:
GPS velocity and magnetic compass are operational 
Another toy under construction for summer fun:
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glad to hear all is well (relatively) after your spill. build looks awesome and i look forward to seeing more progress
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That drone looks crazy powerful? Its designed to go fast AND lift heavy objects?
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YES you nailed it.
One pack is complete. Have yet to charge it up though. For cells that are isolated from the main grouping of cells for that stage of the series loop, I applied a secondary layer of 8mm strip on top of the base layer.
Reworked the drive DC supply bus and prtoected the VESCs a bit better. Still working on prepping the board to accept the A123 cell packs.
I had other problems that prevented my ability to get work done this weekend…
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Been updating the LCS software a bit. Took the board for a ride in my truck to see if the odometers matched and it was spot on…
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Started working with my 3d printer and getting the settings dialed in. Made these belt covers out of PLA with 100% infill and they bolted right up.
Now that I have a taste for equipment used to populate a board… time to update the board… debating a new thread for this…
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Dude you are amazing, what the hell. I looked over your YT stuff. you are a damn genius.
What the hell do you do in life to know so much about… everything?
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Lmao thank you. I’ve bounced around between a few different gigs over the years. Being a college dropout and therefore “uneducated” makes some things a bit more difficult. Nowadays I provide tech support to the US DoD and thats certainly been interesting.
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Any guesses what this will be?
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dunno, but everything is better with RGB!
Even better, RGBW
@InitialDriveGTR how bright the white channel on these leds are? I only used the RGB version only so far and was not impressed, ok for rear lights but not for lighting the road
Seems like a blinker?
I actually tried the white to see if it were viable as a headlamp, but I don’t think it will do what I need it to…
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Yeah, that’s not gonna cut, I bought some 3W leds that are way more powerful, but the white looks a lot nicer than just white using RGB
So I’ve been posting mostly to the picz no wordz thread but time for an update to LCS.
I got the 4.2" E-INK display electrically operational:
I decided for now, especially considering I may mass produce this system, that it would be wise to design a generic housing for the electronics:
This one didn’t fit a single electrical component without modification, but it did bolt up to the truck mounting perfectly… Updating the design gave me this:
Expect better pics and todays progress with LCS later today…
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It’s been a while since any major update to LCS. That said, I have been doing a ton of work developing the software and electronics to make it reliable and usable as a control surface to my longboard. For now, until I have the time to take a proper video of the system working, this will have to suffice.
Some of the new software features include storing configuration data such as finger offsets on the SD card, data logging of speed and gps location, automatic wireless syncronization of parameters between the board and glove system to name a few.
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Building up the tail light assembly:
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