OneWheel Build
OneWheel Build
2022
There is not much to talk about for this project as it was a lot of mechanical work and I covered controlling the motors in my "Controlling Hoverboard Motors" project.
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I basically found out about OneWheels and thought they were neat, but not practical. I also didn't want to spend like a million dollars on one. My solution was to take apart a old hoverboard with a dead battery and put the wheels next to each other (one with flipped direction).
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Apologies for the lack of videos of my projects at times, it can be hard to film stuff that only spontaneously works. I also tend to get my projects to work and then disassemble them right after because I had a better idea and not enought materials.
I basically just hacked the Hoverboard motherboard and relocated the sensor daughterboard (while soldering a pair of the daughterboard's signal wires to the other daughterboard). I then build the base out of wood because it's all I had and the standing plates out of acrylic, because it's all I had. Then I taped some sandpaper to the acrylic to make it grip better.
I reused a spacebar from an old keyboard and a couple small tactile buttons to make the foot sensor. I soldered this sensor into the daughterboard where the foot sensor was originally.