Creating a Tron-inspired wheel

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company and

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i turned on the movie tron

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i was drinking a coffee and i thought

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that was a very cool motorcycles

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in the movie they're called light cycles

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and they have these hollow wheels

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and i remember thinking well i'm not an

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engineer but couldn't we do something

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useful with that empty space

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i imagine you could put things in the

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wheel that lived outside of it with an

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electric wheel

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for example the motor and the battery

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a wheel that powers itself is a much

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more universal wheel than a wheel that

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needs something else to power it

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make it super compact super efficient

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and that's really what inspired me

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pretty much everyone said it was

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impossible they said that if it could be

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done

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it would have been done already by a

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real engineer

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so i ignored them and i quit my job and

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then i met dakota decker

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who ended up leaving spacex to build the

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wheel together with me

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dakota and i spent about two years

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before we came

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to the version that we put up for retail

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it's a much more

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compact design takes up the same space

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as a regular wheel

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but it's got everything in it the entire

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powertrain

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the battery the motor the computer this

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wheel is extremely environmentally

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friendly

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it's electric power and it's a very

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efficient use

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we have