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There are better solutions than that these days and tons of people building and designing parts for custom built boards that use few or no components from Futur

• mdaniel 3y ago
  Thanks for the pointer; for anyone similarly interested, there's a post in that forum showing the build log https://pev.dev/t/diy-onewheel-build-review/918 https://pev.dev/t/diy-onewheel-build-review/918 and they report: > Overall I would highly recommend going through with this build. It feels pretty close to the real thing and is a fraction of the cost. The build got a little frustrating at some points but that’s just part of the learning process. The board is a bit large which is kind of annoying. but I didn't read the whole thing in order to know how much experience they came into that project already possessing (or, of course, supporting tools)
  • shkkmo 3y ago
    The amount of experience you need depends on how deep into doing it you wanna go. The community makes and sells kits and components and there's facebook groups and discords that help answer questions and troubleshoot problems. You can definitely source components that require no soldering and no 3d design skills and build your own board without pre-existing experience. Sourcing those components may take time since a lot of the best ones have a lot of demand and can't really scale. The ride I went on yesterday in SF had six riders on vesc boards, two of which the the Floatwheel which is starting to be made at scale by a member of the community in China and sold via cryptocurrency since Future Motion has successfully blocked his ability to accept credit cards.