Electric skateboard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (October 2008) |
 |
Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page. (October 2008) |
The Electric Skateboard is a large skateboard with a motor attached and a hand-held controller. It most commonly has a lead acid battery in it, though there are expensive models with more modern batteries, such as lithium-polymers and nickel-metal hydrides.
Contents |
[edit] History
The electronic skateboard was invented by Louis Finkle, the founder of Exkate, in Long Beach, CA. Finkle perfected the electric skateboard over the course of five years, using his own money.
Finkle's design included a wireless hand remote that operated using the rider's own body as the antenna on a very low frequency. This design is supposed to reduce radio frequency interference.[1]
[edit] In Popular Culture
In the 1995 film Hackers, the character Eugene "The Plague" Belford uses an electric skateboard to arrive at the network operations center.
In the webcomic xkcd, it is suggested that Nathan Fillion is a fan of electric skateboarding[2].
Webcomic artist Randall Munroe has owned several electric skateboards, and they are a recurring theme on his comic, xkcd.
[edit] External links
- Exkate
- Altered Electric Skateboards by Exkate
- E-Glide
- Metroboard NIMH Ultralight Electric Skateboards
- Electric Skateboards
- Cruise Candy
- Rokit Science
- Eightballboards
- Greenskate New Zealand - Lithium Polymer Powered Boards
- [http://www.rcsk8.com/
- electroboard
- Elektro-Skateboard.de - Info, News, Forum ... about electric Skateboards (english)(german)
[edit] References
- ^ Exkate History Support - Altered Wireless Electric Skateboards & Exkate Torsion Trucks
- ^ XKCD - The Race
(1)http://www.exkate.com/history.htm
