Two items that may be of interest to the group. :)
Simonious Rex
If your group has any interest in either of these things I'd love to hear back from you. If you've got suggestions on these ideas I'd really love to hear those.
A coworker of mine has been making these and is thinking about making a business of it:
The other items is a battery management system - it allows the hooking of any batteries into a smart bus that optimally charges each battery while making the potential of that battery available to the bus.
Normally such systems put batteries in banks and some batteries tend to get damaged by the resulting imbalances, this system is immune to that.
Here are what they look like right now:
https://goo.gl/photos/A8wyGunbpGWWFFDr9
https://goo.gl/photos/ymt8MsFXeRoePCbx5
(These are shots from my test bench) - final runs will look a little different, but not much. I could really use ideas and feedback on these boards in terms of capabilities and feature sets. I've got a pretty solid idea what I think they should do, but it is in my best interest to include the functionality that potential customers want. :)
Feel free to hit me up with additional questions.. I really should try to put together a proper document detailing the capabilities and usefulness of such a board.