What Is VESC? A Primer for Onewheel & Eskate People

Are you Onewheel rider with a broken board? Maybe you bought a Onewheel GT and realized that if your board breaks, you're up a creek without a paddle. Maybe you have a Meepo Hurricane, and want to tinker, and have heard people mention that putting a VESC in it would do something.

What even is VESC? Is it an ESC? Is it firmware? Is it the answer to all of our problems? Well, maybe.

This video tries to answer some questions and clear some things up regarding a growing interest in certain niche PEV communities. Whether you're an eskate rider or have seen 30mph riding on a one wheeled board, this video hopes to be a primer for Vedder Electronic Speed Controllers, and how they may become beneficial for you.

00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - What is VESC (V.E.S.C.) Part 1
02:14 - What is an ESC?
03:36 - What is VESC Part 2
05:09 - Examples of VESC based Motor Controllers
06:59 - The Little FOCer
08:25 - VESC Firmware
09:00 - Open Source Doesn't Mean Configurable
10:02 - Why is VESC Special?
11:45 - What VESC is not
14:44 - Conclusion

[TeddyWalla]

I was literally just thinking I wanted a video exactly like this! thank you for the introduction to VESC!

[growingupisatrap]

Great video Mario, thanks for trying your best to explain such a complex thing!

[themalteseninja]

As always, great work Mario! I’ll be looking into vesc, never knew it was a thing lol

[skylercutsforth]

So if I buy an old vesc onewheel, has a thor300 controller, will it have old firmware? Is that firmware undateable?

[itmeng]

I see Richard stallman all over the second to last chapter