What should I make next?

airgear is slowly becoming a reality

I have always dreamed of making roller blades more dangerous.

Real air gear!

You could call them "Boosted blades"

I actually love the fanny pack tether, the cables look badass and you cannot beat how sleek and normal the skates look. This is the best thing I have seen someone make in a looong time! Thanks for the awesome video.

By far the most sensible and sane project on youtube. Well presented and executed.

These are super clean and refined! I had made two (heavy, janky, and impractical) electric skate prototypes a couple years back after being inspired by Motorball from Alita: Battle Angel. Super dope to see how you made yours!

I really like how you show the entire design process it's a great tool to learn.

It is coming. The age of Air Gears. Can't wait for the invention of the first Regalia. Who is going to be first to see the Wind Road? When I was younger and that anime first came out, I was like "No Way." Boy, I can see I was wrong the wrong wrong.

Congratulations, you accomplished all the goals on list and then some! 🏆 . Plus, they don’t look clunky, retaining a classic roller blade outline. Super cool!

Excellent work. Certainly one of the best versions I've seen made!!

this is so cool! as a fan of rollerblading and electric rc stuff i've always wanted something like this

Always wanted to build something like this, sick project man! :)

so dope. I have been using my rollerblades as my daily driver lately, and eblades like these would definitely ease all the wheel wear down. there are 2 eblades on the market I know of at the moment, and I look forward to having even more options available by the time I can afford to buy them. seems like your design has equal speed and more range than the best current available option, big props!! subbed 👏👏😎👊

Awesome video and project! Looking forward to seeing more projects in your channel!

What a great video! Would love to see you make more stuff

This is awesome can't wait to see where this channel goes. Keep coming with awesome videos bro.

Woooooow. First of all this is great! Especially all your effort to making control unit and customisation of the motor. Second you are really hit the point of the “electric rollers” Great job.

Thank you Iv been waiting to hear about this for years. Please bring this into reality I want it more then any other form of electric transportation.

i had an idea like this for the longest time, but I got so focussed on making hub motors for the wheels. excellent solution. great build!

Superbe vidéo hâte de voir les futurs projets et comment la chaine va évoluer

Great work dude!

Excellent video and quality for your first Channel video

Awesome BUILD, Awesome VIDEO !!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎

Have just stumbled across your channel. Excellent 👌

absolutly reminds me of the anime air gear, nicely done

I immediately thought of air treks from the anime air gear! Super awesome build an design, and I'd freaking love to try them!! 😃

I am an avid skater and engineer and can relate to this nice build. Seems to me having a battery pack in a fanny pack is better than increased weight at your feet.

First video ive seen of yours and im surprized you done have more subs.

Collin, I just want to say, I am so glad to be this early, absolutely sick build man 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🔥

Amazing video 📹 and amazing work 👏

That is a really cool project. Love it.

Awesome, next level of freedom :)

Air Gear nostalgia, great work

Air Gear and JSR/JSRF is slowly creeping back into the online conscious and I love it.

I love this video, its just a guy making who wanted to make something cool and was able to make it happen, so inspiring!

I been waiting for somthing like this.. wow man good job bro

This video is great, pretty impressive! I like how you explain everything really well and excited to see the things you build as your channel progresses. I always thought it would be cool if someone were to build some type of basic "any user" friendly electric platform that could be applied on more than one application. For example, lets say one day you want to ride and electric skateboard/longboard, next you wanted to ride and electric scooter or maybe mount to a bicycle for a little power assistance. Some how have a system could easily switch to these types of applications with only minimal mods needing to be done. I think it would be cool to see the different things users would come up with. Subscribed, Look forward to seeing more of these videos! Keep up the good work dude!

I watched this video and I was thinking that looked like Davis, and then I saw the UC Davis sign when you rode past the basketball arena. Brings me back to my childhood when I lived there. Awesome video bro.

this video is super sick! i love channels that make videos like this and i was incredibly surprised to see this was your first considering the script, editing, visuals, etc. were all high quality. i think you could reach more people if you make it clear that you MADE the rollerblades in the thumbnail or title. i'm not sure how much you care about the numbers, but i'd love to see a channel like this grow. (if the video already has 8%+ click-through rate, then just ignore me lol) either way, keep up the great quality and you'll grow regardless!

So happy I'm not the only nutty engineer! I worked on some clamp-on skates, managed to go a few miles along the Charles River in Boston. Electric was always the goal, to try to get the most fun in the most portable size possible. I still have a design CADed up but the price was..... Prohibitive lol. You are a badass!!

Ideas : One. hill assist mode. Two: make a device that can work on any skates. Three: an off-road set up

when I first entered the world of electric scooters I didnt know anything about the different types of motors and the balancing of wattage and voltage after building a couple scooters out of parts I had Im more seasoned you can say it still amazes me the options had a gas scooter who's motor was completely ruined stripped it down to the frame got the specific dimensions needed to weld on a plate for the 1000 watt magnet motor I had screwed in a heavy duty tote to rack on the back where I ran the controller and battery geared up the motor sprocket and voila 36v 1000 watt 20 amph it was fun can't wait to do another

Nicely done!!!

Here before 1k subs. This is awesome man.

Very cool! I ordered the Atmos Gear skates, but I suspect I'll be modding them 😈

Super impressive ! Hello from Petaluma.

Great video and project Collin - very inspiring - I rollerblade myself for fitness and now an avid EUC rider - have always wondered if dual wheels side by side (so 4 instead of 2) would be possible and what type of stability that would provide. Many a time I've hit unseen pebbles and have nearly wiped out and thought if a 4 wheel config would work .. not the old style wide skate with 4 wheels ... but a slimmer ver for inline skates ... just a thought.

these are the real e skates well done young man. ill sub )

Awesome, and inspiring!

Dang for a first video this is amazing I was expecting you to have over 100k subs

16:17 HELL YEAH!!! Open Source For the Win!

Very cool. You could use load cells between the wheel frames and the boot so they would operate like a self balancing hoverboard or unicycle. Leaning forward would increase speed in an attempt to centralize your weight. However this would drastically mess up your normal skate stride and require your legs to be side by side. Perhaps a throttle that detects the side load during your normal skating stride would work. So side load on the right skate would throttle the left skate faster. Seems like it would amplify your natural stride.

Sub number 720 Came up on the algorithm for me, good video and good quality. Keep it up and you'll grow the channel well

Incredible work Collin! Here I am trying to do the opposite, I'm trying to slow down my 110mm wheel blades because I can't slow down effectively LOL. I created a hand brake with a cable pulled brake caliper for my right blade that clamps on the two rear wheels. Your design is so elegant.

Man it is amazing for the first video

I'd love to have a pair of those. I've been looking for a powered skates solution for years...

Amazing project! Love your design decisions that keep them as close to regular blades as possible. How are these uphill and how tolerant are the motors with sustained loads? They also make off-road wheels that would be cool to see paired with your setup.

Totally cool design...would be interested in the files. My thought in regards to one rollerblade taking off when lifted would be possibly having a ground disconnect/microswitch under your heel which cuts power to the blade when raised... also id use a single dual motor controller... the advantage to 1bms vs 2 is you can have higher voltage and amp as well as weight savings...

They look a lot better and go twice as fast as a brand that I've seen available that makes electric skates (frame attachment). Well done! I'm really excited to see how this technology progresses over the years. I'd love it if by the time I'm too old to skate much if I could have some electric skates which weighed the same and also looked the same. Maybe if we get bearing size hub motors and solid state batteries we could have electric skates that are completely indistinguishable from non electric skates like we sort of have with bikes

Great project.

Nice job

Excellent project, Excellent video! you've got my sub! I'm curious, how much did you spend on time & materials, and how would that compare to something like the Escend frames?

This was epic! I would like to see a more powerful motor and a back pack battery. I wanna see highway speeds

Here for the rollerblades. Old die-hard Air Gear fan and just hoping that I can see them happen in my lifetime. Now, anybody else got this strange feeling that Collin here kinda very looks like James Franco or is it just me? hahaha loved the video

As an eboard builder and blade enthusiast please open source the build. Great work!

Underrated Epic design 10/10 If you do make a cordless version maybe look into belts again, the chains are quite noisy.

I have an ebike, and it feels pretty dangerous going 20mph. I can't even imagine going 24 on a pair of rollerblades! Awesome build, but I can imagine why they haven't exactly taken off as a safe and easy mode of transportation!

EASY sub, great job

Excellent platform flying eagles are. Good solid choice for this project.

Now only if u can make with suspension that’ll be prefect !u got a sub!

Very cool! Have you tried looking into power tool, li-ion batteries considering how light weight they are? They also have a nice convenient holding slot you're probably able to utilize in using to attach them to each skate perhaps. And also by utilizing the slot of the batteries, you're then able to switch them out when the batteries die out on you on long trips. You'd probably want to try adding solar panels to charge the batteries as you go on top of your helmet as well, that way on sunny days you'll not need to carry with you extra batteries.

This setup comes across as very cyberpunk. I suggest using that in your future marketing.😎

Dreamt of this so much as a kid!

Great project! I have an idea for a rc (or ideally autonomous) 'luggage car' that follows you at a set distance while rollerblading.

Amazing!

These are amazing, thanks for sharing. I'd like to see some middle wheels, one or two on each skate. This may be achievable by using a smaller wheel lower set? Open source!?.... Um... YES PLEASE. That's very generous of you.

I gotta come over and see these in action lol

is the wear on friction drive that big of a drawback? I've always liked the idea since it lets you use the skates normally as well when you run out of battery, the guy that designed the thunderblade used the centrifugal force of the spinning motor to push it against the wheel, I thought that was pretty clever. also wanted to say, amazing build! and amazing editing and production value :) surprised to see it's your only video on this channel with this quality

I found your channel. Man, you're at such a low sub count. If you keep cranking badass projects out like this you'll be growing exponentially.

Air Gear irl this is awesome!

I'm looking forward to the next generation of electric skates; mainly the ones from AirTrick, Escend, and Atmos Gear.

Pretty dope, nicely packaged for a one-off. Long shot from the fastest though, seen a few now getting over the 60mph mark, and if you want to count Buggyrollin', a fair bit faster.

Will you be releasing a list of parts and 3d files of printed and cnc parts? So that others can make and improve on them themselves?

Very nice 👍 Of note, very thin v belts are available to use instead of a chain. If you get the tension right you shouldn't need a toothed belt for that HP level.

Extreme Electric Roller Derby! That would be bad ass. Why not. Everything else is going electric.

hey collin it’s patrick from mr. angi’s class, these are sick

If you're not planning on selling them, as in abandoning this project. Please make them opensource/openhardware. It will be interesting to see if others can build upon your platform to create an even more refined version!

Tech & slight irony = great combination

Real life air gear! my hero!

you can use sensored bldc motors t o detect the rotor position, and the editting is pretty good for a first video uploaded on the channel

Waiting for the next steps

Too lazy to look in the comments.... but AIR GEAR. Thanks for making my dreams come true!

Awesome! Two thoughts from me: 1) A middle wheel would reduce the "train track" feel. If it doesn't fit just put a smaller one in there. It's quite common to mix wheel sizes. 2) I think motoroised skates are just plain dangerous due to the wheel size. I think a more practical use of this tech might be some sort of electronic disc breaking. Breaking is one of the hardest things to do on rollerblades even for very experienced skaters. You might not even need a remote either, if you can some how detect a "stepping plough" motion you could use that to activate the brakes. The great thing about a stepping plough is there is no rollerblade move in any discipline (rec, aggressive, wizard) that uses this move so the possibilities of false positives would be slim. If you could crack the braking problem I think that would be a multi-million dollar idea.

Add a fail safe. Radio interference can send you flying and hurting you or kill you. Very simple and nicely done 👍🏼 Elbows and Knee protection recommended as well. Millions have learn this the hard way having to live the rest of their lives in pain.

This is just amazing, would definitely buy. If you ever open-source it, or just sell the electronics I would buy.

Very cool 😎 👌

Would be a fun idea to do this project with off-road rollerblades, or the ones with big rubber tires. The bigger, longer frame and large tires would enable you more space to work with too.

A thought, adding those spring loaded retractable spoolers to take up any slack in the power cable? It would help getting your cables safe while at any height (crouched to standing). This might add extra strain on the connectors on the boot. Also, polyurethane on a leaf spring to take up any slack in the chain might reduce the noise of chain meshing loosely with teeth.