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This video is your guide to build an electric go-kart out of broken hoverboards. So we recently gathered a bunch of hoverboards, some of them were broken and the other not in a good shape. So we took them apart and started with the tyres which basically houses the brushless outrunner motors. We decided to use four of them so that our kart is going to be four wheel drive... cool isnt it.
The next step was to design and built the frame for the kart which we build using metal tubes. As we chopped the lengths to our required dimensions we drilled a bunch of holes to assemble the frame using allen bolts.
Once the frame started comming together we mounted the tyres/motors and started working on the stearing mechanism that was simple push-pull asssembly. As we machined all the parts for stearing we connected both the front wheels using teo pairs of ball joints and threaded screws which allows smooth stearing movments.
To drive our homemade go-kart we decided to go with the hoverboard speed controllers to control the speed and direction of motors. As we have got four motors so we needed two boards but the problem was that initially the boards were programmed to work along with two onboard gyros to assist the controller for direction and speed of each motor w.r.t the tilt angle. Now we need to control the direction of motors using two joy sticks, one for forward and the other one for reverse direction.
As we started this project we knew nothing about embeded system designing so here i am highly thankful to SkillShare for not only sponsoring this video but also allowing us to learn and improve our programing skills that helped us reprogram the control boards according to our needs. The whole process took some time and lots of trouble shooting but eventually we repurposed the boards.
Later we build ourself lithium ion battery pack with 14 cells connected in series so the battery pack offered a nominal voltage of 54v with a capacity of nearly one killowatt-hour that's sufficient enough to get this kart rooling for almost an hour.
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