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by vpontis 7y ago
Gosh, this was so scary... I thought someone had hacked in and deleted everything... I hope they come back. This is still pretty scary
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Lighthaus – An Interactive Light Installation(lighthaus.pont.is)
1 points by vpontis 8y ago|0 comments
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Micromobility Isn't Ridesharing(blog.scootermap.com)
1 points by vpontis 8y ago|0 comments
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by vpontis 8y ago
You called out the red error screen and that's something that they explicitly called out as fixed in this version of React Native. And it looks like they are a lot faster about responding to PRs now. Tt seems to me like they are doing
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Everything You Need to Know about Charging Scooters(blog.scootermap.com)
1 points by vpontis 8y ago|0 comments
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Everything That's Possible Can Happen(victor.pont.is)
1 points by vpontis 8y ago|0 comments
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Investor Frenzy for Scooter Startups Cools(wsj.com)
3 points by vpontis 8y ago|0 comments
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Economics of Scooter Share Companies(victor.pont.is)
1 points by vpontis 8y ago|0 comments
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by vpontis 8y ago
I really enjoyed this article. Summary Coyotes are too clever because they know that people shaking jars full of coins can’t hurt them. Thus the animal control patrol has to get called and when they don’t shoo, the animal control person w
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Wireless Charging Is a Lie(cobattery.com)
1 points by vpontis 9y ago|0 comments
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Paraprodoskian(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by vpontis 9y ago|0 comments
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by vpontis 10y ago
Awesome! If you end up making something, send it over :). I'd love to check it out.
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by vpontis 10y ago
It's not! We have some info on the connector here: https://cobattery.com/connector Apple doesn't actually let you buy a chip that will allow for the right angle connector that we have. So we decided to design our
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by vpontis 10y ago
Our batteries come with some compliance testing. I'm not sure what other testing we have done for other components. But the batteries are the important one.
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by vpontis 10y ago
Hmmm, it's actually much more simple than that. We want to provide a good product that makes people's lives better. The warranty is a forcing function. In my opinion, if we can't make money while ensuring people's CoBatt
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by vpontis 10y ago
Wow, you paid attention to the details! Yea, the screenshot was just for the purpose of the post. We did some of the original design in OnShape and some of it in SolidWorks. I didn't want to recommend SolidWorks for cheap work because
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by vpontis 10y ago
The circuit is actually really simple in our case. It is just a voltage converter and then an adapter for the lightning connector. Getting the custom lightning connector and chip was more of an ordeal though! I'll see what I can dredge
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by vpontis 10y ago
That's a great idea!
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by vpontis 10y ago
Wow, that is an important point that I did not know about. Luckily we do have the resources to pay for OnShape, so all of our files are private and have been private.
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by vpontis 10y ago
That's a good point! I guess the iteration cycle has gotten an order of magnitude quicker and cheaper with 3D printers.
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by vpontis 10y ago
That's awesome! Open Philanthropy reminds me of https://80000hours.org/ . In their relationship disclosure: > OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Paul Christiano are both technical advisors to Open Philanthropy and l
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by vpontis 10y ago
I haven't tried it, but it definitely looks cool!
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by vpontis 10y ago
Thanks for the kind words yial! We've found that a big reason people upgrade is due to a failing battery. So if that's why you are upgrading, I would just save $$ and get CoBattery now ;).
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by vpontis 10y ago
Yea, so I think scale, both in volume and in number, is a huge variable. Our cases are relatively small so they can be printed in a couple hours. And during the development phase, we are going through hundreds of prototypes. (The fit has to
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by vpontis 10y ago
Thanks! Yea, as I said in the post, I think it's drastically easier to start a hardware company now vs 10 years ago. And it's still pretty hard, ha! So I can just imagine what you went through. Yep, the battery is "exposed&qu
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by vpontis 10y ago
Ooo, yea the connector, that was tough! We have a proprietary design there so we can't share everything but I will include some info on the connector in the next posts of this blog series :).
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by vpontis 10y ago
Hey jwr! We found that buying a 3D printer was essential . They only cost a few hundred dollars and instead of getting a piece for $50 in a couple days, we can print something for a couple dollars in a few hours. For testing the final desi
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by vpontis 10y ago
What!? Giraffes are awesome... We have found the metal connector to be pretty resistant. But we have one year full warranty, so if anything breaks for any reason we will send you a replacement immediately. :)
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by vpontis 10y ago
> Is the battery held in by friction and the connector? If so does it ever fall out? Yea, it's just friction and the pogo pins at the bottom! It took us a long time to get that fit quite right but now it never falls out. I'll g
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by vpontis 10y ago
Ha you are clearly more knowledgeable about 3D printers than I am :). Reprap for anyone reading this is totally awesome. I didn't include it in my post but Reprap is an open source 3D-printer that can make itself... It's basically

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