Today there are a good handful of inventions that are doing very well in terms of sales and one of them is undoubtedly the electric skateboard or the electric longboard. The truth is that several famous youtubers have helped users to get to know this type of gadgets that allow us to move through cities among cyclists through existing bike lanes. Some of these longboards or electric skates are from well-known brands such as Yuneec or the Boosted Board, but these are quite expensive and that is why today we propose make your own with a Raspberry Pi, a skateboard and the Wii remote.
A priori it seems somewhat more complicated than it can be, obviously the finishes will depend on your skill and what you want to spend on it, but obviously it will be somewhat less than if we buy it in a store or decide in the end for one of the longboard models we mentioned at the beginning. In this case we have another well-known youtuber who has created his y It indicates each and every one of the steps so that we can do the same.
We have the parameter setting code in GitHub And how well we can observe in this case, the creator reaches a speed of 30 kilometers per hour with his skateboard, which undoubtedly gives us plenty of room to walk up hills and move freely around our city. In this case the creator of the electric skateboard rides a 3.200 watt battery, the raspberry and the Nintendo Wii console controller is used to operate it.