"whatuptkhere" (whatuptkhere)
01/10/2018 at 19:19 • Filed to: razer, razer e300, electric scooter, big nerd
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"whatuptkhere" (whatuptkhere)
01/10/2018 at 19:19 • Filed to: razer, razer e300, electric scooter, big nerd | 3
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Long before I had money to get myself a dope little racecar, I set my sights a little lower.
Back in ‘08 I started turning standard little kick scooters into powered beasts with... less than huge success. Even still, it was hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Fast forward to 2015, and I’d scored a job with a major automaker and wanted to reward myself with a present. I bought a Razer E300 electric scooter off the shelf, to see what the real deal was like.
It sucked out loud. Electric scooters are never
cool
, so they should at least be fast.
Thus began the journey of turning this thing into an electron-breathing, rubber-shredding monster.
Like so many bad ideas, it all started with a couple of drill batteries...
tromoly
> whatuptkhere
01/10/2018 at 19:52 |
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Sounds like Charles Guan’s Melon Scooter from ~8 years ago. Wish he hung around these parts, his brushless crazy vehicles are awesome.
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whatuptkhere
> tromoly
01/10/2018 at 20:20 |
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Yeah, big fan of his stuff, particularly the karts.
It’s all properly engineered stuff with huge power and great performance, but it’s very much done from a “I have access to a massive machine shop at MIT” perspective. Very jealous of the waterjet cutting facilities and much more. That said he actually went against the grain once and did a kart design specifically for the masses which was very cool.
My build is more of the “I live in a tiny, crappy sharehouse in Victoria and need to do this with a $3 set of screwdrivers” perspective. I’ve also stuck to brushed motors because they’re a problem I’ve always wanted to conquer, from a personal learning perspective as much as any other.
I’ve got a plan to do a top speed build sometime in the next 12-18 months, but I’ll be sticking with the home-built methods. Think more Roadkill, less World Time attack.
winterlegacy, here 'till the end
> whatuptkhere
01/10/2018 at 22:44 |
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I literally just realized after watching this video that if you add a tiny seat it turns into an electric scooter.
Stop me now.
Spoon II
> whatuptkhere
01/11/2018 at 14:30 |
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Modding random electronics is one of my fav hobbies! Entertaining video!
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whatuptkhere
> Spoon II
01/11/2018 at 17:06 |
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Thanks ^___^ I’ve had a lot of fun over the seven episodes that are out :D
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whatuptkhere
> winterlegacy, here 'till the end
01/11/2018 at 17:07 |
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There is a version that comes with a seat actually! I figured this is nerdy enough already though ahahah ;D