Electric hydrofoil surfboards are quickly becoming the most sought after sport/toy of the year. In fact, orders for hydrofoils from efoil builders who had working prototypes took off last summer. The one thing all builders have in common is the need for a waterproof remote control.
Nowadays, it seems that we all use the remote control of an electric skateboard in a plastic bag to keep it waterproof. With this as your remote, you need to lift the hydrofoil’s electric remote into the air when you fall, and also make sure you don’t squeeze the bag open during a fall. Beyond that, handling something through a plastic bag is very slippery and difficult to control.
A waterproof electric hydrofoil remote control is expected to be available this year. It is expected to have multiple uses, so the remote can control an electric skateboard, an efoil, an electric SUP and an electric jet propulsion board.
The reality is that with DIY builders attaching an electric motor to virtually everything these days, a new multi-use waterproof electric hydrofoil remote control is going to fill a gap in the market.
There are several creators who have shared their concepts on various forums, but have yet to deliver a final product that can be sold. This shows how new the motorized water sports segment is.
Only a few companies have waterproof electric hydrofoil remote control, but none of them sell to individual builders.
The key features of a controller required for high performance and long life are: fully waterproof, buoyant, rugged, and automatically shuts off motor power once the board is more than 15 feet away from the rider. That is, if someone falls and the table moves away, it will turn off for safety reasons. This project poses a variety of challenges for its design and usability.
With so many open source builders testing and modifying every aspect of a waterproof remote, it has provided a steep product development curve and thus created some interesting designs and features.
With builders in North America, Europe, Australia, and many other countries sharing their ideas and knowledge with each other, there is rapid progress. This is an exciting time like DIY electric hydrofoils, jet surfboards and electric surfboards.
Electric hydrofoils are one way to bring surfing to the world’s lakes, rivers, and oceans. All you need is a body of water and to charge the efoil batteries. It will be exciting to see electric hydrofoils buzzing (quietly) on the world’s lakes, rivers and oceans.