Author Archives: Sítheach

Today in work we worked on a “Nana Scooter” for an old person that had issues with the battery – I was super involved in the whole process and actually got to alot of the work which made me feel accomplished and as if I was having a “proper” effect on things. Afterwards I cleanedContinue reading “Day 11 – Wednesday 31st Jan (Nana Scooter)”

Today in work we had to disassemble a “fake” battery casing to uncover what was inside and find out that the rated amps on the case is untrue to the real battery inside. Afterwards we watched Dani figure out exactly what was wrong with another battery unit involving the bmu which worked only in weirdContinue reading “Day 10 – Tuesday 30th Jan (Video Game Museum & Boat Ride)”

Today at work we managed to save a scooter throttle from being totally thrown away by replacing the hall sensor inside by soldering a new one to the connections in the throttle. Afterwards we had to figure out exactly what was wrong with a possibly faulty control unit which had a weird coating all aroundContinue reading “Day 9 – Monday 29th Jan (Brute Force)”

Today I went and had breakfast in a cafe that specialised in having American cereals. Weird but I really enjoyed being able to try Reese’s puffs, they’re actually surprisingly super nice and don’t totally taste like pure corn syrup and chemicals. After breakfast I went to see all the market stalls that were up nextContinue reading “Day 8 – Sunday 28th Jan – (Breakfast & Beach)”

We went to Frigiliana & Nerja today and it was such a wonderful and beautiful experience. Everything was perfect and beautiful and it wasn’t too touristy or overwhelming. We got to see the beautiful village of Frigiliana and while everyone else in the group went off to get lunch I wanted to go hike toContinue reading “Day 7 – Saturday 27th January (Frigiliana & Nerja)”

Today we learned about flashing the bios of the scooters which allows custom firmware to be ran on them, which allows the scooters to have certain abilities that it isn’t able to do stock such as remove limits on the speed limiter, use custom LEDs, switch region specific features, specific dynamic controls such as directContinue reading “Day 6 – Friday 26th Jan (De-soldering)”

In work today we worked on an old homemade delivery type ebike that had several issues after its batteries needed to be changed due to its dodgy wiring, I got to help fix the bike today too and got to solder for the first time which was super fun, after working on the bike weContinue reading “Day 5 – Thursday 25 Jan (Gibralfaro)”

Went to work and waited outside the workshop for a while only for the boss to come to the workshop to tell us that there was an emergency at another place within the company and we could go home early so I went home and had some lunch then went shopping and got myself someContinue reading “Day 4 – Wednesday 24th Jan (Shopping)”

Learned a huge amount today – we specifically got given basically a theory lesson by Dani (I guess our tutor in the workshop) on electronics and exactly how common circuit systems within the scooters or electronics work and how hall sensors work within the motors of the scooters or ebikes – super interesting and usefulContinue reading “Day 3 – Tuesday 23rd Jan (Theory)”

Started the day with the initial introduction meeting, ended up going to Lidl afterwards to do the initial “big shop” as is mandatory when in another place for a bit and got back just in time to meet the work placement introduction where I followed the guide to the workshop I’ll be working at –Continue reading “Day 2 – Monday 22nd (Introduction)”