I’m interested in learning more about this capability. I know a little bit but can’t find much detail by searching forum.
I know a few have gone about this with some kind of tether between rider and board as a “trigger” for when you fall off and that VESC supports the function.
I think some commercial builders have done something like this (Takuma) but I recall that Flite has some kind of auto shut off if the rhe board heeled abruptly.
If anyone can supply detail about how they did this, associated risks, reliability, effectiveness etc and/or detail about what commercial builders did I would appreciate it.
But I have considered implementing something like this, but did not get beyond the initial stages.
It should be reasonably easy to do with gyro data of the board. When not in a failure situation, the board has only very limited range in pitch and roll.
Once you fall of the board, the board pretty much always does something aggressive in pitch, which should trigger the motor to turn off.
As far as I know (have never seen a Takuma in person) they used/use a magnet to attach to a point on the board on the hatch. When the magnet comes off it somehow triggers a stop.
This is what is posted on the Fliteboard site about their method.
