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Open esk8 Remote - v1

Fully open source remote control for common electric skateboards using the NRF24L01+

In June 2018, I bought an electric skateboard. It looked cool in various videos and I was not only eager to learn to ride it but also to replace my car commute to work and the search for the over night parking spot or a parking space during city visits in San Francisco. The project logs of this project capture my adventure of deep diving into reverse engineering an existing protocol, making it my own and getting a fully custom remote control to work with the majority of cheap Chinese electric skateboards using the NRF24L01+ as it’s wireless communication chip.”

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