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A project log for Electric Bobby-Car

This projects converts a Bobby-Car (children's ride-on toy) to electric by using 4 Hoverboard motors, VESC controllers and an ESP32

peter-ptziPeter Pötzi 04/28/2019 at 21:210 Comments

To convert the bobby car to electric , I did remove the original plastic wheels and replaced them with 6.5" BLDC hub motors which can be found on hoverboards.

First, I used a saw to remove some plastic from there area where the original rear wheels were and made 2 aluminium plates, one with 2 grooves for the motors and a lot of screw holes.

The grooves and M8 screw holes are needed for the hub motors:

The aluminium plates are screw onto a wooden block, that is also mounted on the plastic frame of the original Bobby-Car.

The bottom of the whole Bobby-Car now looks like this:

The cutout in the middle is needed for the electronics, which will be added later.

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