Tag: go kart
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woodkart – it works!!
Oops, we finished this over a year ago, but I never got around to blogging. Better late than never, right? The title glosses over some details: since the last post, we added the seat, breaks, motors, batteries, and motor controllers. To mount to motor we first assembled the chain, then pulled the motor back as […]
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A Woodcart
Now that I have moved away from MIT and am no longer spoiled sick by the awesome machine shops on campus, I am forced to resort to …other methods of construction. Fortunately, I still have one of those benchtop drill presses, though, and a power hand drill, so here’s a project that just uses those. […]
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SAM: now with lights!
Everyone knows that go-karts go faster when they have cool lights. My controller and batteries all sit on a 1/8″ sheet of polycarb which is transparent, so right under the controller was a good place to put the lights. I got two strips of RGB LEDs. This was my first time playing with them and […]
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Day 5: throttle, batteries, sensors
Proof that everything works: I started yesterday trying to make a throttle. I could have used one of those handlebar hall effect throttles, like what’s on picoFahrrad, but the steering wheel on this one would make mounting such a throttle messy. Also, its just nice to make things yourself. I dug through some bins of […]
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Day 4: Motor and seat mounts
Today started so terribly. It was 4:30pm already and all I had was a CAD of a motor bracket. And a partly scrapped attempt at a pair of brackets. I took a break for 20 minutes, followed by a few minutes of sulking. Then, 4:55pm, waterjet. 15 minutes after it was done cutting: This was […]
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Day 3: now the steering is actually done…
Sorry for the lapse yesterday. Today I am a little behind. Looks like I will have to make a motor mount and seat mount by the end of tomorrow. Yesterday I did most of a steering system, and today I spent a good bit of time fixing it, and then actually finishing it. The steering […]