jonsully
10 W
The Bafang BBSHD has been out a while — going on 7 or 8 years now? I'm curious for the community's wisdom on the progression of this motor over time and the trends in the market / industry that has guided it. For instance, somewhere along the way the Bafang configuration software was released and folks started programming motors themselves. Penoff rebuilt a copy of the software (v2.0), then Blitip did too (v2.2). Several years later (2022) Daniel announced a fully rewritten open-source firmware for the BBSHD (with its own config tool). But there have been so many other ideas and concepts along the way — various firmware versions shipped from Bafang, Luna Cycles building all sorts of accessories (a metal replacement for the nylon gear? What was that about?) and controllers, all sorts of mounting devices... etc. The accessories market for the BBSHD seems quite large, but also... out of stock! There are many products or pieces that seem to have fallen out of fashion. Why? What happened?
I'm hoping to trace out the history of the BBSHD and its product / programming ecosystem over the last 7 or 8 years in this thread. If you have knowledge on why a certain product/accessory/programming-knowledge came to be, how its uptake into the market went, and what happened to it / with it since, would you contribute here?
As a newcomer into this space in 2023 it's been difficult to try to understand the timeline of all the BBSHD stuff and it'd be neat to have a single thread for folks to understand the history.
I'm hoping to trace out the history of the BBSHD and its product / programming ecosystem over the last 7 or 8 years in this thread. If you have knowledge on why a certain product/accessory/programming-knowledge came to be, how its uptake into the market went, and what happened to it / with it since, would you contribute here?
As a newcomer into this space in 2023 it's been difficult to try to understand the timeline of all the BBSHD stuff and it'd be neat to have a single thread for folks to understand the history.