Skat Skateboard - Friction Drive

[torqueboards]

Dual motor friction drive
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skat/skat-electric-skateboard

 

[sl33py]

cool idea. unfortunate name.

 

[maxchilton]

a crappy design to go with a crappy name. lol.

 

[Joemommafoo]

I think they called it the Skat because it's the shit! lol

 

[Joemommafoo]

Its actually pretty sick. Something different and new

 

[sk8norcal]

i think the auto ramp up in speed is something interesting for hands free riding

I think pediglide's carveboard is like that, not sure though...

 

[LEVer]

Seeing how small the foot-thing is, they might just have a momentary switch there, and it'll work too. I have an FSR sensor, so does Kickr.

I'd like to see how it brakes.

EDIT: Ok, so just read the whole thing. They do have momentary switches. Both feet must be on the switches to accelerate. Braking is done by lifting foot on either switches. Acceleration is not really variable like on FSR, you set the max speed with a different switch. It acts more like a cruise-control; kick to desired speed and then cruise. Pretty neat, you can actually call this a push/kick assist e-board.

 

[sk8norcal]

It acts more like a cruise-control; kick to desired speed and then cruise. Pretty neat, you can actually call this a push/kick assist e-board.

I don't think it's a push assist.

When you step on both buttons. Board will ramp up to set speed.

 

[rojitor]

I find cool the hands free mode. I don`t like the size though. Stary looks better to me.

 

[Joemommafoo]

Yea it look kind of small but so is my banana cruiser but im able to shred it just fine. I take my banana board everywhere. I can imagine lugging around a longboard like stary tho. It looks cool but it's still long as shit. Im still on the border on which one I want to get. I can pretend to be a longboarder and get the bootleg boosted or i can get the skatt and take it anywhere. They are both different and cannot be compared IMHO. Nothing like the skatt ever came up before so I dont know.

 

[crystalmeth]

What kv motors is he running on there? 900-1000? Looks like some SunnySkys

 

[rojitor]

3 days left. Seems they are not gonna make it.

 

[crystalmeth]

They need to provide more details. The low quality images aren't helping their cause either.
A better video of the motor mount construction or some estimation of the voltage/kv/amp specs
would also go a long way. Combined 1200 peak watts is not telling us very much. The Stary Board
creators have 3d rendered images of their in-wheel motors and some spec numbers on the torque
it produces. Skat only shows a bunch of different motors and a gif of the removable battery.
Details! Details! Details!