Another day of work and the Electric X²/2 is within a few hours more work of movable! Electric X²/2 is now the official project name, and it is a play on the original Sharper Image Electric X2. It’s not mathematically sound, but you shouldn’t be reading this page for mathematical discourse anyway.

Pics!
Read more “In the home stretch”

What an exciting day. The ginormous brushless controller arrived from Hong Kong today, and it is ginormous indeed. In fact, it’s bigger than I had planned for, warranting a slight on-the-fly redesign of some of the structure. It also turned out to be quite troublesome – in that whichever sweatshop worker in Southeastern China assembled it was sufficiently drunk at the time to reverse the power input wires.. that is, red to – and black to +. This led to quite a harrowing adventure where I just barely manage to tie down the controller’s white, poofy soul.

And also some mechanical work.
Read more “It comes! And goes. And comes again!”