Magnetic levitation skateboard

Engineer, inventor, and YouTuber Colin Furze has built a two-tiered skateboard with an upper deck that "floats" above the lower deck. He previously built a bicycle with neodymium magnets acting as shock absorbers.

Colin Furze attempted to build the hoverboard from Back to the Future. It didn't work. But along the way, he created something else: the Magboard, a two-tiered skateboard with an upper deck that hovers above the lower deck using neodymium magnets.

The principle: two decks, one above the other, with powerful magnets between them. The lower deck carries the wheels, the upper deck carries the rider. Levitation was achieved within three minutes on the first prototype.

Making the design controllable, however, took 7-8 iterations. Furze tried pins, bearings, hinges, and cables, and eventually settled on square tubes with bearings in 3D-printed bushings that transmit the rotation of the foot to the wheels but allow the deck to move freely up and down.

The inventor describes the sensation as "like a frictionless air cushion."