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Design

Building my own LED wheels for

  1. Skateboarding
  2. Rollerskating

  1. Magnetic Core
  2. Bearings
    • 608-sized bearings are the same as the standard skateboard bearings
    • 8mm inner diameter, 22mm outer diameter, and 7mm width
  3. Copper wire
  4. LEDs
    • TBD (have some at home)
  5. Capacitors
    • TBD (need to do more research)
  6. Epoxy
    • TBD (need to do more research)
  7. Rectifier
    • full bridge just needs 4 diodes
    • need to find where to buy some

Physics

  • reddit
    • although they got the direction of the copper coil wrong
  • https://bladeville.com/blog/luminous-wheels-for-inline-skates-rollerskates