thesongbird

It can be dead as a doornail. Just need some prints and ideas. I'm not leaving until I leave the ground. Charles (the MIT guy) was a great help, now the rest is up to whoever wants involved haha. Seeing the ones he made is just so....inspiring. And with air pressure mods plus proper motor tuning, hopefully they can go further than 3 miles too.

Hey there guys. I've been working on Air Treks lately with the help of what I found on this forum and I got in contact with the guy from MIT who actually made a pair but I still need a bit of help. If anyone is still actively watching this thread could you PM me or reply please? I'm looking for the AT forums MakeItReal mentioned as well as to bounce a few ideas off people. I got a "break down" of how they worked for the guy in MIT and I'm trying to get some people together to finish them. Roaxis made a comment "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." The way I plan on going with this is, instead of a sensor making a wireless connection to a palm pad like they did in MIT. It requires wireless programming and a sensor pad to a degree. What it does is the harder you squeeze your hand, the faster it makes you go since the sensors tell the motors to turn on and move forward (in a nutshell). Again, that was something designed in MIT that I hope to modify. I'd love to make it foot pressure sensory activated instead of palm so it's more like natural skating, plus it doesn't require wireless programming (which is a jerk to do). But I'd rather make them more like air treks instead of being sort of "remote controlled" I know this post is quite dead and most members are no longer active but I figured I'd give it a shot!