Make it yourself
Make your own electric longboard for less than 200 euro
The electronics
A schematic drawing of the electronics to get the board moving. Four major components: Motor, Electronic Speed Controller, Bluetooth controller and the batteries.
The connectors and switches
the on/off switich from the ESC mounted on the outside of the3d printed battery/esc case the XT60 connector and the DB9 connector mounted on the outside of the battery/esc case. Easy charging the battery this way. The 3d print with the holes failed thats why there is some tape on the case. I have to print that part again.
Here is the link to download the XT60 holder/mount
http://dijkx.com/download/Low_line_XT60_holder.stl
The board
I bought the longboard on E-bay, see link down below. It is a drop through board so to have enough clearance for the motor I mounted the trucks underneath the board. this board costed 40 euro's and 10 euro to send it to the Netherlands.
Battery and ESC case
The battery/ESC case consists out of three seperatie parts. Printed in PLA.
Here you can download the stl files:
http://dijkx.com/download/box1.stl
http://dijkx.com/download/boxESC.stl
http://dijkx.com/download/boxmiddle.stl
Rampabolts
I used Rampabolts to mount the 3d printed case to the board.
Pully and motor mount
I bought this kit via E-bay but are not very happy with it. The screws in the small pully are to weak and the big bolts are to short to fit through the wheel. The bracket for the motormount need some extra reinforcement, so I 3d printed some extra brackets. Now the motormount is steady
link to the left and right 3d printed motormount:
http://dijkx.com/download/left%20Truck%20support%20Atlantic%20rift.stl
http://dijkx.com/download/finaltruck.stl
Al you need is some threaded rods and some nuts
The brackets are printed with PLA.
Don't forget to use loctite 243 to prevent the bolts from coming loose.
The battery
First I collected 24 18650 batteries from old laptops and made a 6s2p pack, which means 6 batteries in series and two sets of 6 in paralel.
With my TEVO Tarantula I printed a battery holder. The link for the batteryholder
http://dijkx.com/download/6s2pbatteryHolder.stl
Battery charger
The charger I bought is the Imax b6 mini from SkyRC
