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Has anyone experimented with DIY electric hydrofoil boats or surfboards? it looks like fun https://efoil.builders/ https://efoil.builders/
by dharma1 6y ago
Has anyone experimented with DIY electric hydrofoil boats or surfboards? it looks like fun
https://efoil.builders/ https://efoil.builders/
- chrisdalke 6y agoI've built a few ~10-20 hp equivalent electric boat motors and some smaller brushless pod motors like the ones that efoils use -- It's really satisfying engineering work and you have to master so many disciplines along the way: machining/fabrication, CAD, electronics, software, etc... And as with any project of that complexity, you could spend a lifetime just getting interested in a single part of the project.
- dharma1 6y agolooks like our chinese friends already have the motors, ESC's and so on ready to buy, and there is open source software - so the project thankfully becomes more an assembly exercise, similar to building drones