2026-06-25 –, Prime Dome
A single wheel. No handlebars. No seat (usually). No brakes, in the traditional sense. 55 mph & 50 miles on a charge. Fits under a desk, charges from a wall outlet, and makes you look like a wizard, a lunatic, or both, depending on the lighting.
I won't be giving lessons at this talk, but I'm happy to teach throughout the weekend! If you'd like to give it a try, please fill out this liability release.
I've been riding EUCs as primary transport for a couple years. It comes inside with me. The grocery store, the bar, the office, the bus, the train. Which means I've never circled the block for parking, never locked anything to a rack, never registered the vehicle with anyone, and never been doored by a car (yet). I'm here to convince you it's the most practical personal vehicle ever built.
Then I'll spend the rest of the talk undermining my own argument: firmware you flash at your own risk, BMS protection circuits and the manufacturers who decided to skip them, the lithium fire math (it's fine, it's fine, it's mostly fine), why controller tuning matters more than motor size, the telemetry ecosystem, what "cut-out" means and exactly how I learned it (badly, at speed, with my face), the ER visit, the months of physical therapy, the couple of teeth that are no longer original equipment, the insurance question, and the small global community of people who looked at all of that and decided this is still a normal way to live.
Live demo all week. I'm the one going up the Doe Bay hill without pedaling, wearing more protective gear than seems strictly necessary, for reasons you can probably guess by now.
Dustin works on security at a token factory, where his threat model includes nation-states, his own employer's product, and possibly the future. He used to do disaster response for the United Nations, which he describes as "similar." He builds agents to do his job and would very much like to be replaced by them. He also rides an electric unicycle everywhere and would like you to know it's the most practical way to get around. He has the dental work to show for it.