Advanced Skateboard

                                                       

             Advanced skateboard

 

      Students of Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engineering have invented a new electronic skateboard for travelling and named it as “Advanced Skateboard.”

The project is developed by five final year Electronics and Telecommunication department engineering: Rohit Singh, Hitarth Patel, Navnath Mane, Tanmay Shinde and Rahul Kapoor under the guidance of their principal DR. K.T.V. Reddy.

     In the project, the students have modified the existing skateboard which is available in market so that even a non-professional can use it for travelling in large campuses like IITs, BARC, Kalina University, Large markets, etc. The idea to make such project was developed when students had visited to BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) which is located in Mumbai. The students had faced the problem of travelling, as the distance between the Main gate and North gate in BARC is approximately 2km and everyone has to travel it by walking. Hence, this motivated students to develop some kind of transporter which can be carried by the users and can be used at such places when needed.

In Advanced skateboard, the bearing wheels were replaced so that the user can easily stand on it without any movement of advanced skateboard. New wheels were connected to the Main motor so that unless and untill the user doesn’t give commands to the main motor the skateboard won’t move. Also, the servo motor was connected to the front wheels of the skateboard so that the user can take appropriate directions when needed by sending signals to this servo motor. To control the whole mechanism of the skateboard a transmitter (Glove) was designed which works wirelessly using RF Module. After wearing the gloves, if the user closes all his fingers the two contacts get short and the signal is transmitted to the main motor and the skateboard starts moving in front direction. Also on opening the fingers again the skateboard stops moving. While travelling on advanced skateboard if the user wants to take the direction then he may simply make the use his thumbs as the same concepts are used for the direction also. Depending upon the requirement of direction of user he may short any one contact out of three available contacts (Left, Center & Right) accordingly the signal would be transmitted. Receiver section is attached with the skateboard where the received signals are processed and then given to main motors and servo motor. Skateboard also consists of a battery level indicator which helps to indicate the battery level of the skateboard so that on low battery the user can charge it for further use. Also a head light was provided to the advanced skateboard so that it can be used in the areas where street lights are not available.

   Whole assembly works on the rechargeable battery 12v 7.5 amp. The innovation is so designed that it is user-friendly and eco-friendly. Currently it is capable of taking load upto 70-75 kg and speed is upto 4km/hr which can be extended upto 20km/hr. The innovation has won many National and State level honours from the last year throughout country including 3^rd prize in IIT BHU and 3^rd Prize in IIT Kanpur this year. The project is now under patent process.