Kush low as front footpad
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Interesting project @Lemur
Eager on hearing from it how it goes in time being!BTW ppl ... recently mr. Matt Hoover (from Land-Surf) have hinted numerous times in variety of FB groups recently that hes been working on FRONT PLATYPUS ;)
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@sirgu honestly its the sensor pad innovations that have me most interested. concave front foot pads sound really cool.
XR's got what plants crave!
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@notsure Understood.
As for myself .. aside the exitement on concaveness .. I do value the extra wideness that comes with Platypus. Although my feet are not that large (~10,5")
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@sirgu Ooo that green looks nice!
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Just an addition for the topic: Kush-lo+ pint sensor.
Added diy CF plate as anti-ghosting and sturdy bottom plate, kush is kinda flexible;)Aka "Vommbat"
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@notsure
Neither lol, hand laminated using the bottom of the pad for shaping since the front part curves up.3(or 4, dont remember) layers of unidirectional 340g/m2 fiber.
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@sirgu really like this. Im curious what it looks like under that grip!
Aka "Vommbat"
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@maciak said in Kush low as front footpad:
Kush-lo+ pint sensor.
i wonder if this could be done for the airpad? it already has a sturdy base plate. i never tried peeling off the gel tho. i'd love that. id buy it immediately.
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@notsure said in Kush low as front footpad:
@maciak said in Kush low as front footpad:
Kush-lo+ pint sensor.
i wonder if this could be done for the airpad? it already has a sturdy base plate. i never tried peeling off the gel tho. i'd love that. id buy it immediately.
Is the gel part not inside the pad?
Aka "Vommbat"
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@maciak said in Kush low as front footpad:
Is the gel part not inside the pad?
that whole yellow piece is the "gel". its just soft rubber. under that is an aluminum base plate that provides the rigidity.
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@notsure
I get it. Well, it depends. If that pad flexes enough so the toeside pressure deforms the heelside for instance, it could lead to undesired behaviour : such as heel-lift at standstill wont disengage the board.Also i can think of slow recovery of the pad back into shape after compression. So the moment you lift your foot the pad stays in that shape a bit longer. This would certainly lead to ghosting.
I think you can determine by the feel of that pad if it has any characteristics i described above.
Aka "Vommbat"
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@maciak said in Kush low as front footpad:
Also i can think of slow recovery of the pad back into shape after compression. So the moment you lift your foot the pad stays in that shape a bit longer. This would certainly lead to ghosting.
thats a good point. what if the sensors are applied to the aluminum instead of the pad and covered with a low friction film of some kind? maybe kapton or pfte tape? the rubber does compress easily but it does not travel with respect to the base.
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@maciak Yea, the day I posted it I had no idea the PlatySense v4 design involves single pressure sensor. Which is bummer for me. I'm keen on heel-lift disengage. :/
For now there's bunch of FB short vids of how on point sensitive it turned out.
Recent YT video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmKEnJOfZJM&ab_channel=BartMiller -
@sirgu
Oh dang! I watched that vid but missed the single sensor part coz i got pissed off by how he was slamming on the stock pad like an ape. This vid is very stupid tbh.
Edit: I dont like posi either tbh. The dual pad is about the only fail-safe we have and im no trickster.
