![]() ![]() ![]() We demoed a system similar to the ‘white box’. even a saturated salt solution is many orders of magnitude too restistive to work, and if it you could spin super conducter powered ubermagnets the water would dissapate almost all of your energy meaning you would need a huge amount of power for hardly any lift.ĭon’t believe it can be done by the hobbiest? You should have come to maker faire in Brighton, UK this year. It may be a skin effect for the AC eddy currents generated…ĭoes it work on water?: No. It gets better lift the thicker it is but the benefit tails off above about 15mm. Since they need to optimise the socks off it just to make it man carrying they have taken a hit on the halfpipe cost. Less power required for the same lift weight. Why use copper?: The conductivity is higher meaning the lift efficiency is higher. Still in answer to your questions:ĭoes aluminium work: Yes, as it is cheaper that is what we have used I have independently been working on a near identical version. I am slightly shell shocked having found out about this. Posted in Crowd Funding, Featured Tagged Crowd Funding, crowdfunding, halbach array, hoverboard, maglev, Magnetic levitation, magnetics Post navigation The Star Wars landspeeder has already been done, but the snowspeeder hasn’t. We’re giving away some gift cards to the Hackaday store for the first person to build one of these hoverboards, preferably with a cool body kit. If you’re still sitting in a steaming pile of incredulity concerning this invention, you’re in good company. It’s a fine line between being blinded by brilliance and baffled by bullshit, so we’re leaving this one up to you: build one of these devices, put it up on hackaday.io, and we’ll make it worth your while. Arx Pax has also developed a method to control a vehicle equipped with a few of these hover disks the $900 ‘Whitebox’ technology demonstrator includes a smart phone app as a remote control. That’s how you create a real, working hoverboard. These eddy currents create a magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field that created it, causing the entire device to levitate.By placing the rotors over a conductive, non-ferrous surface – a sheet of copper or aluminum, for example – eddy currents are induced in the conductive surface.The magnets are arranged in a Halbach array that enhances the magnetic field on one side of the array, and cancels it on the other.One or more electric motors spin a series of rotors consisting of an arrangement of strong permanent magnets.What and Arx Pax have done is take these phenomena and turned them into a platform for magnetic levitation.Īccording to the patent, the magnetic levitation system found in the Hendo hoverboard works like this: Everyone reading this has no doubt seen superconductors levitated off a bed of magnets, and demonstrations of eddy currents are really just something cool you can do with a rare earth magnet and a copper pipe. The meat of the story comes from what has until now been a scientific curiosity. I defy anyone to come up with a better marketing campaign than this. What’s so special about demoing a hoverboard on October 21, 2015? The campaign is for a BttF-style hoverboard, but this is really only a marketing strategy for Arx Pax the hoverboards themselves are admittedly loss leaders even at $10,000 – the main goal of this Kickstarter is simply to get media attention to the magnetic levitation technology found in the hoverboard. All of this was carefully orchestrated, with a ‘huge event’ to be held exactly one year from today demonstrating a real, working hoverboard. At first glance, the company itself is actually legit. In fact, at least one employee has work experience with the innards of electric motors. The company behind this campaign, Arx Pax Labs, Inc, exists, as does the founder. All the relevant business registration, biographical information, and experience of the founder and employees of Arx Pax check out to my satisfaction. Of course the world’s first hoverboard is announced to the world as a crowd funding campaign, so before we get to how this thing is supposed to work, we’ll have to do our due diligence. If that’s too rich for your blood, you can spend $900 for a ‘technology demonstrator’ – a remote-controlled hovering box powered by the same technology. Yes, the hovering skateboard from Back to the Future. It’s called the Hendo hoverboard, it’s apparently real, and you can buy one for $10,000. Press embargoes lifted today, heralding the announcement of the world’s first hoverboard. ![]()
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