austindavid
100 W
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2014
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- 204
Hi all- torqueboards funded development of the nunchuck-based receiver, and you've seen how that turned out. Now we're spinning up some work to build an ESC:
- brushless -- designed for standard outrunners
- sensorless -- sensored performance at low speed, but no sensors required. Seriously. Start cold on a single motor, no cogging.
- power: 10S, high power, high efficiency design.
- regenerative braking
- quiet
- fully configurable. We'll tune it for a few specific motors, but it's as adjustable as wiiceiver or the flier/Alien ESCs
- all open source and hackable.
We'll make as many as needed and will sell them as cheap as we can, same as we've done for wiiceiver. Funding goes to cover development costs. All software, designs, part lists, etc will be shared freely. Unfortunately it will have to be an SMD-based design with pretty tight tolerances, to keep size comparable with other ESCs -- but not accessible in kit form, sorry
Basically we want to make the perfect ESC and give it away. Once we get a design we may do a kickstarter or something kickstarter-like, to know how many we should build in the first run.
This post is a few things:
1) thanks for the support for wiiceiver. Enthusiasm, ideas, and contribution help make this stuff happen. Ongoing sales are funding this ESC work
2) an informal survey: how much would you pay for the perfect ESC?
3) a teaser
- brushless -- designed for standard outrunners
- sensorless -- sensored performance at low speed, but no sensors required. Seriously. Start cold on a single motor, no cogging.
- power: 10S, high power, high efficiency design.
- regenerative braking
- quiet
- fully configurable. We'll tune it for a few specific motors, but it's as adjustable as wiiceiver or the flier/Alien ESCs
- all open source and hackable.
We'll make as many as needed and will sell them as cheap as we can, same as we've done for wiiceiver. Funding goes to cover development costs. All software, designs, part lists, etc will be shared freely. Unfortunately it will have to be an SMD-based design with pretty tight tolerances, to keep size comparable with other ESCs -- but not accessible in kit form, sorry
Basically we want to make the perfect ESC and give it away. Once we get a design we may do a kickstarter or something kickstarter-like, to know how many we should build in the first run.
This post is a few things:
1) thanks for the support for wiiceiver. Enthusiasm, ideas, and contribution help make this stuff happen. Ongoing sales are funding this ESC work
2) an informal survey: how much would you pay for the perfect ESC?
3) a teaser