Here’s a Raspberry Pi Zero project to help your pursuit of the good outdoors: an electrical skateboard that zooms around city at 30kmph (19mph).

The brains is that the £5 Raspberry Pi Zero, whereas your speed is controlled by a Nintendo Wii Remote over Bluetooth. There’s a motor from Alien Power Systems connected to the rear shaft, and a speed controller from identical company, and A battery providing a variety of 10km.

The project is that the product of the Raspberry Pi Guy, the person behind the popular series of YouTube tutorial videos, and options simply one hundred lines of code – freely accessible on

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