Re: motorized inline skates


John Doe wrote:
"inlina" <inlina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you ever built anything, inlina? If you had, you would realize
how fanciful thought has nothing to do with actually building a
prototype. An ideal implementation is important, but the prototype
design is completely different.

Building prototpes is an expensive and painstaking process. You want to
make sure that your design is robust and based on solid fundamentals of
engineering before embarking on a proto build.

Fanciful ideas are best left on the drawing board until they have been
put through a rigorous design process ironing out any potential
problems using the best knowledge sets and methodolgies. Only then
should you realise your fanciful idea as a working prototype.

That's the way most designers and engineers work. There are exceptions
to the rule, but then those people are either pure genius or get
through on dumb luck...and there's a fine line between those two
extremes.

Ever designed anything to do with a skate, or any kind of
mechanical device?

You answered your own question.

I'm not sure how I answered my own question. Your trailer doesn't count
in either of the categories I suggested IMO. (And the design was hardly
novel to boot.)

I've designed and built lots of things.

I see nothing in you list of design and build achievements that
possibly point towards your ability and a designer or engineer that
could pull of the contraption you propose. Largely tinkering and static
devices.

As an amateur builder, applying frontwheel drive to skates might be
too difficult, but maybe it can be applied to a skateboard-like
device. Whatever... I've got lots of protective gear.

Plenty of amatuers come up with simple (and sometimes) complex designs
and fantastic inventions. They are usually people who are embedded in a
community and identify a need of that group. We have a TV show on here
that showcases these people. You, on the other hand Mark, are not
embedded in the inline skating community, nor appear to have a grasp of
the needs of inline skaters.

I wish you luck with your idea. Call me when it makes you your first
million.

CG

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