Gninoked
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Hey folks. I know it has been long stretches of zero useful updates, but just know that there are a few things at play:
1) I always underestimate the effort required to replicate something that took me weeks, and somehow think you can just throw it together and it isn't hard. If I had released my work without some refinement, it would have probably been a minor disaster of people trying to work off of seat-of-the-pants engineering.
2) My day job is busy as f---, and I just can't touch this stuff most days, much as I'd love to.
All those excuses out of the way, check out the latest prototype "brain" (on the right, obvs) with a huge bunch of help from my friend @Quickshoe to turn my soldered up prototype into a proper pcb. His board even worked the VERY FIRST TIME it was plugged in to my car, which is mind blowing!
We are still figuring out if/how/when/what this becomes a thing people can get from (somewhere), but I still plan to release my original specs so someone could cobble together their own soldered up version like mine on the left, if they choose. Just know that it is not easy and I'll stop saying it is easy and I'm sorry I said it was easy.
But mannnnn is the one on the right nice, Right?
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That looks like great progress! Really appreciate the expertise and time you have put into this. Sasha gave the prototype wheel on our car a glowing review!
I know you didn't want to make a product in the end, but you are almost there now anyway haha! Given your time and energy limitations it might make sense to me to sell this to one of the Tesla shops so they can get it out there for everyone in a simple to consume package that can be supported and available for everyone!