The hoverboard, one of many teen crazes of the final decade, is each a marvel of expertise and a supply of hacker elements which have appeared in so many tasks on these pages. It incorporates an accelerometer or comparable, together with a microcontroller and a pair of motor controllers to drive its in-wheel motors. That recipe is open to interpretation in fact and we’ve seen just a few in our time, however maybe not fairly like this steampunk design from [Skrubis]. It claims a hoverboard design with no trendy electronics, solely relays, mercury switches, and neon bulbs.
The concept is that it’s a hoverboard from 1884 utilizing elements obtainable in that period, therefore there’s discuss of telegraph relays and galvanomic piles. The write-up is offered in steampunk-style language which if we’re sincere makes our mind harm, however the premise is intriguing sufficient to persevere. So far as we will see it makes use of a pair of relays and a transformer to make an oscillator, from which may be derived the drive for a 3-phase motor. This drive is shipped to the motors by additional relays working beneath the affect of mercury tilt switches.
There are a full set of {hardware} designs when you wade previous the language, however as but it has no proof of a prototype. We admit we kinda need it to work as a result of the concept is preposterous sufficient to be cool if it ran, however we’d be mendacity if we mentioned we didn’t harbor some doubts. Maybe you our readers can ship a verdict, in spite of everything presenting you with leisure is what it’s all about. If a working prototype surfaces we’ll positively be that includes it, in spite of everything it might be cool as heck.
Oddly this isn’t the primary non-computerized stability transport we’ve seen.
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