Ok, so I did some reading on the fourms before posting this and uncovered an old thread regarding air gear. This caught my interest because as a part of my Network Administration classes I'm taking Human Hardware Interaction as an elective. As a thought for the project I was thinking about trying to make my own set of Air Gear. Now, I know that someone pointed out the video "rocket skates" on youtube in the post I found. However, to simplify the use of the air gear I was thinking that I would somehow fabricate a sensor pad to detect the pressure of how a person uses the inline skates. As an example I will use the way I skate; when applying pressure to move forward I tend to place more forward pressure. So when programming the pressure pad I will make it so that when (x) amount of preasure is applied in the back it activates a kind of brake system and cuts power to the main motors. To actually power the skates I was thinking about using a motor that had some kind of magnet that could possibly generate excess power to recharge a battery pack containing two LI rechargable batteries. The only other problem that I see is actually taking the time to make the frame for the inlines and finding custom wheels, if I am unable to obtain that I will have to figure that the far back and middle front wheels will be used for braking. The only other issues I see aside from the motors and the power supply would be a shock system to make the ride a little smoother.
