ESK8 - Electric Skateboard Controller

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Here is a work in progress! While intended to be a replacement housing for the controller that came with my Meepo longboard, these electronics are pretty standard and there's a good chance this design will suit others too. Electric skateboards are great: -Lots of fun -Useful for 'last mile' transport ...and: A source of endless amusement to me, especially as I'm 50 - sadly the world is full of tiny-minded people who get 'triggered' by anything that might be outside their personal, limited, experience or beyond their puny capacity to understand... ...while I get a lot of smiles and interested questions when I'm out and about, you'd be amazed (and saddened) by the number of people who look on my skateboarding as if I'm a herald of the apocalypse; to the point where I do get button-holed by daft fools who feel the need to berate the 'evil teenager' for my 'evil ways'... ...until they get close enough to see I'm not - The inevitable looks of confusion, especially with resultant subsequent halting attempts to tell me how 'irresponsible' I am are always a source of great amusement to me... ...most of the time I just reply as if I speaking to someone showing polite interest and quickly move on... If I'm in the mood, I quite enjoy calling out their stupidity with the application of logic which always results in more confusion when 'ridiculous indignation' meets a polite and reasonable response. An example conversation: Woman walking her dog along a quiet country road, without pavements, on the end of one of those annoyingly-dangerous extending leads: "Don't you think..." It catches up with her that I'm not an evil teenager, "...that, that it's a bit irresponsible to be using that on a road?" It's amazing how such people have the stupid arrogance to plough on even when it dawns they might be on the wrong end of a debate "Oh, I don't know. I'm in full control of a vehicle intended to for use on a road." I carefully look at her, her dog on the end of a very long lead, standing in the middle of a road and smile politely. "You're a danger to other road-users!" I suppress laughing at her for the obvious unthinking stupidity of this comment, especially in the face of a pedestrian walking down the middle of a road without pavements barely in charge of the dog she has with her. I just smile politely and ask "How is an electric long-board, which intended for road use, any more dangerous than that?" You can reverse the connection if you want the new control wheel to operate the other way round. Bonus: There's room in the shell for a larger battery. Any 3.7v LIPO that fits will do. I found the standard battery in my controller had rather less range than the board itself!