Weight Sensing Electric Skateboards

made by Justin Le and Frank Schmitt
www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=49557
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzqqD-PYjC0
www.ebike.ca

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made by Andrew Mikofalvy
www.mikofalvy.mit.edu/projects/weightSensingLongboard/weightSensingLongboard.html

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GoBoard, was eXboard
www.youtube.com/user/onego1977
www.facebook.com/Juanjo.Martinez.Almansa
www.goboardshop.com/

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www.intuitivemotion.com/
www.zboardshop.com
www.youtube.com/user/intuitivemotion
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1645804961/the-zboard-the-weight-sensing-electric-skateboard
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i64Iu9Oniw

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The gadget in the video is a sensor controlled electric skateboard. When the rider leans forward, the board accelerates and when the rider leans back the board decelerates to a stop. The board is completely hands free. In the video, the board is hooked up to a power supply, but a battery pack can be used. The Seg-Board was designed and manufactured by four Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering students.

www.youtube.com/user/filmschick
www.picasaweb.google.com/117860557854955409622/Segboard

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lean forward to accelerate...

www.frankschmitt.org/projects/powerboard
www.3wdm.blogspot.com/
www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=49557

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" it senses the portion of the rider’s weight on the fore and aft trucks with strain gauges and commands motor current (~= torque) according to the differential between them."

Craig Meyer
www.longshotcity.com/2009/05/28/the-weight-sensing-controller-less-electric-skateboard/

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Patented in 2000 by Staelin and Lang
www.google.com/patents/US6050357