Tricumbent hybrid
Here’s FrankG’s first installment on the design and fabrication of an electric recumbent trike – Covering materials scavenging, initial frame welding, gear ratio calculations and the casting of the motor mount assembly – Link.
Transportation
Spider car
Stella writes – This guy built a spider-walking vehicle, which may not be as stealth as a real spider, but is still pretty quick on its 8 legs. It took 3 months to design and 6 months to build. After spending $15,000 in materials and countless man hours, the Spider was built in the name […]
Maker Faire: X1 electric car does 0-100mph in 6.8s
Come check out two amazing electric cars that will be at Maker Faire!, speeding in to the future! Here’s a snippet from the project description by Rich Hilleman and Ian Wright: Electric cars do not have to be heavy, ugly, and slow. The Wrightspeed X1 weighs only 1536 lbs, and has beaten some of the […]
MAKE Fire Truck – Help Us Mod It, Hack It and Name It!
MAKE now has a 1981 Mercedes Benz 508D Diesel Doka fire truck! It has 47,274 kilometers, a heavy duty military/commercial grade 6-cylinder diesel with a 5-speed manual transmission. It has two bucket seats up front, 7 seats in the back seating area, tons of storage racks and bins, and the roof is covered in diamond […]
Making the human powered vehicle
Trebuchet03 sent in the latest installment on the UCF HPV (human powered vehicle) fairing project – with more time lapse! Link. Previous: Large Scale Mold Making – Making the Negative “Tool” – Link.
SnoDeck – Motorized snow skateboard
Nicholas sent in this fantastic SnoDeck – a motorized snow skateboard – Systems Design Engineering students at University of Waterloo demonstrate a skateboard modded for use in snow. The dual tracks are driven by electric drill motors and suspended on elongated skate trucks. Turning radius is 2 meters. A wired kill switch stops the machine […]
HOW TO – Make a custom mount for Garmin Nuvi GPS (for a VW)
Raelx writes – If you have ever been in a Volkswagen New Beetle you might have noticed that the dash is deep enough to take a nap on. This makes the suction cup mount provided with the Nuvi pretty much useless. You would have to press your chest to the steering wheel to touch the […]
