Pictute of my board on the local UTD campus
Beautiful campus, though the campus life is pretty dead

https://youtu.be/oczYnzF2Zm8?si=2m8amR5cWaZbvmCO

I saw this today.
I'm not sure if I'm going mad or what but...
damn.

Guess who's back!
so my parents bought me a 18S2P battery from the BoardGarage that runs off of 50s cells. They also got my an accompanying charger and thr XLITE-V3.

Spent all day setting it up, and it works!... after I accidentally plugged it into the stock harnesses reverse polarized connector. Had to replace the XT-60 on both the battery and the harness

gonna rip her around the neighborhood this morning, I'm excited

I'm getting the hang of the art of "going up curbs"
Super excited, just need to get it down and become more consistent

Curbs are no longer a obstacle, only a mere pebble. Next is stairs, then after that. . .

Run

Time for a Onewheel update!

(The school doesn't lock the gate to the track, so I ususally go there at night to ride around. The ground on the track makes my tire act weird, but it is fun acting like your racing other people!)

The onewheel XR has been treating me well so far! It has turned from a cool toy to a tool in my life. My bike I have is good for getting to walmart and such, but bad for getting to classes due to it's footprint and how people congest both the sidewalks and the roads (No, seriously. People just walk in the middle of the street. It's dumb.) and the onewheel, with a massive speed reduction lets me weave past people if I have enough space.

The onewheel currently has stock everything except bumpers, tire (provided by @OneDanGT (Thanks man!)) and rear footpad. Next on the list is life savers for my rims because I ride this thing like a psycho at night or when there's lots of space and I'm going to start to learn tricks. The badger provided by @S-Leon (thanks man!) will be installed this week as well. I will try to design clips to attatch the LED strip to it.

Down the road, I will look into a battery upgrade, and finally either new rails or maybe even a VESC. After that, I'll water proof the board and I should be done with it for a long while!

Also, it's icing outside so that is going to severely limit my riding time. Ice isn't as hard as I thought, but braking with the bumper causes the onewheel to slide, and turning sometimes feels wack.

hehehehhe

Here's a harder one~

@lia The only thing I can really say is that whining doesn't really help anything, and it's better to look on the bright side.

I remember hearing something like it takes more energy to frown than to smile.

But thank you for making the forum in the first place! I wouldn't have a onewheel without you guys!

went on a trip in Colorado, brought Warstick with me

So my mom decided that she wanted a Onewheel so she could ride with me
however, she didn't want to break the bank and wanted something easy, so I helped her find a used Pint.
We got lucky, and found one that had 114 miles at 600 dollars. we got even luckier, as I found out the battery had been replaced right before I picked it off of the guy I bought it off of, so we basically had a steal.

Going to be teaching her how to ride it, but I'm not going to let her near my VESC (Warstick) as it has some problems and I need to fix a couple of things on it

We'll keep it stock, and probably by Christmas depending on how much she uses it, I might give her floatplates and a new tire

teardown vid by FixMyPEV

Yeah, saw the announcment for the announcment last night.
On the VESCIFY discord server, everyone hopped in VC and I polled what people thought it was going to be. 4 people (including me) thought it was going to be a new XR

Aside from that, it looks like it's just a GT, slimmed down, put in blue rails, with a 6-inch hub, wooden footpads and some new firmware.

It's about $1900, which is actually a steal compared to a stock GT. The board itself probably has it's own rails which aren't compatible with the GT or XR (that's what a majority of the Vescify server thinks, at least. Personally, I would think that they would at least reuse the GT rails but modify them to still be compatible, but still the same. It wouldn't be economical to design and make a whole new set of rails.)

I'm waiting to see what the TFL does with a teardown of the XR Classic (I'm dubbing it the XRC personally)

New update:
The motor has started to vibrate whenever I apply breaking. It's like haptic buzz vibrating. Updated firmware, recalibrated the motor and went through motor crunch troubleshooting.

What fixed it was unplugging the Hall sensor plug in my veac and plugging it back it.

A little confused now

@loaffette
they cheaped out on the bumpers, going with stock and not the free-ride

@lia Nope, not yet on the reflow station
Everyone I knew who had one left for greener pastures (They're all smarter and crazier than me and got scholarships to better colleges)

The LEDs flickering might have been a good thing too. It made me realize that those strips weren't bright enough for what I wanted (even though they were 24V)
Though I may end up putting my old stock XR headlights back in for now

@lia I bet someone might try and put the GT-S motor in the board. It'd probably be a waste of money, but it would probably at least be fitting.

Also the all-black color gives me an idea

The board compared against my mom's pint. I'm hoping to soon replace the tire after 500 miles and to get her an enduro. She can ride the board and balance on it, but she goes very slow and her feet and ankles are shaking on the round tire of the pint.

That's a later project though

Update

No bueno on that old controller, it's deader than a doorknob. I held on to it for measurment references and to recycle the XT-60 on it since I was out of those. Spent the rest of my time experimenting with COB LED strips

They seemed bright and worked well. The idea is to utilize the 12V (1A assumed) power output from the Ubox 100v. Split it so two of the wires carrying the voltage goes through a boost converter to bump 12 to 24v for the LEDs. At the same time, run the other two wires to a buck converter to drop it to 5V for the Wemos D1 which will use WLED. That will let me control the LED's colors and brightness.

It worked on the bench, so I buttoned the rest of the board up enough so it could be taken back to college

Re-terminated the wires on the motor just so it was cleaner, and covered it in heat shrink. I might end up peeling that heat shrink off and re-doing the wiring again because it was a pain to fit through the cable gland, and I think I could make it look cleaner.

So, remember how I've been having trouble with the screw threads on my rails?
I took the Easy Access box STEP and pulled it into CAD. I added these little legs that extend out enough to cover the back screw holes for the bumpers. There's a hole for 10-32 heated inserts to go in, where it should give me new threads. I had to sand it down a bit, but I got it to fit and it works well!

After I moved in and my new controller arrived, I got right to work placing in the new controller. I had some fun with my iPad automatically updating to Vesc Tool 6.05 which made connecting to the board impossible via iPad (stupid thing) so I did it on my Galaxy Fold, which hadn't updated the app.

After too much work, I got it all put together! However, the LED bar on thr front started to flicker like crazy. I checked the wiring, checked for any shorts via continuity across the wires and even swapped out the Wemos D1. I even ran the LEDs with only the power and ground connected, and it still flickered and changed colors.
I was going to replace the LED strip but I can't find the rest of mine, and I don't feel like ordering new ones

The board works now, and is working great! I'm hoping to waterproof it soon before it rains. I printed the controller box out of PETG with a 5 layer thick wall, so hopefully that should keep it sealed.

@legolas You should be able to find links or at least a place to find people who would have them on the vescify discord server
https://discord.gg/QFgpu8ND