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I can't find any mention on the site to the surfaces it supports - turns out its powered by magnets, so only works on magnetic surfaces.
by AdamGibbins 12y ago
I can't find any mention on the site to the surfaces it supports - turns out its powered by magnets, so only works on magnetic surfaces.
- nacs 12y agoYeah they seem to hide that info well. The "Hover engine" is basically just a big electromagnet. "Hendo hover board uses a magnetic field architecture to transmit electromagnetic energy. One downside here is that it needs a metal surface to hover" That's a pretty big downside. Not only that but it seems to hover barely even an inch even with the giant metal surface and seems to just scrape the surface half the time they're standing on it in the video.
- jessaustin 12y agoThat does seem kind of limiting, but realistically what else can we expect in the next ten years or so? At our current level of physics understanding, a board must either interact with fields that most of the boarding environment doesn't naturally generate, or it must move a lot of mass downward very quickly. The former will always be lame (like TFA) while the latter must see radical miniaturization before it will be practical.
- jinushaun 12y agoScience really needs to solve that darn gravity equation.
- nl 12y agoSort of. The surface is copper, not "magnetic" in the commonly-understood sense. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/physics-hendo-hoverboard/ http://www.wired.com/2014/10/physics-hendo-hoverboard/
- tempestn 12y agoWorks on aluminum too. Interestingly it doesn't work on "magnetic" surfaces like iron, because then the surface itself is magnetized and the board just sticks to it.