I’m a father of two little kids, so I’m always on a look for fun and interesting toys. Obviously the most interesting toys offer a ton of free play time for the kids, with bonus bonding time if there is some easily assembly. To date however, I was not convinced that I could make my own toys, at least not cool ones. Budget is always an issue too, and between LEGOs, Thomas train-sets, and Bruder trucks, it creeps up quickly. It’s a real struggle.
Some dad, somewhere, decided to create a go-kart for his son. His budget may have been limited and/or perhaps we wanted a challanging project to work on with his son. Whatever the case it, they built this little go-kart, which I think it’s pretty awesome considering that they used “only household items and parts from hardware store”
By Kamil Kaluski
East Coast Editor. Races crappy cars and has an unhealthy obsession with Eastern Bloc cars. Current fleet: Ford Bronco, Lexus GX 470, and a Buick Regal crapcan racecar.
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Kinda awesome.
Utterly brilliant powertrain.
Except it seems like having the brake on the opposite wheel as the power could be potentially
awesomeproblematic.It's simple and guaranteed to be unreliable in wet weather. Everything you could want, really!
Wow, it moves a lot faster than I expected. This could leave a Power Wheels in the weeds! I wonder what the maximum range/time is on a charge. With some plastic wheels he might even be able to get some decent drift action.
I wonder about the same thing. My DeWalt is done drilling after about 15 minutes of work. That's with the good battery, the other is dead. After three years. Replacement batteries are forbiddingly expensive after sending Li ion batteries from China became forbidden.
Anyway, awesome idea! I have some leftover bikes that I want to build into a cart. Can't weld though, so I'm still trying to figure out how to do this.
That is impressive. And with not much more work you could have one of these from Toylander http://www.toylander.com/Toy_cars.php
Scaled off the wheelbarrow wheels and tyres used.
You could even use the same powertrain.
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Oh. My. Gawd.
I need this!!! Err…my kids needs this.
Reminds me of mdharrell's automotive fleet.
To me, not so much. It looks reliable, and even if something fails, replacement parts are readily available.
No no, these can't rust.
But you can practi… I mean teach your kids to practice reversing a trailer.
If I owned them, I'm confident they'd find a way to rust.
The wheels, themselves, and the axles are steel.
Your confidence may not be misplaced…
note proper use of zipties
Some years ago, I worked in a Home Depot. I remember wandering through the power tools section, and realizing at least one of the drills available had more torque than my old Ford Escort.
Pretty advanced little buggy — it even has steer-by-wire and throttle-by-wire systems. (And I love the Frisbee for a steering wheel.)
The Frisbee struck me as a bit silly until I realized it would be deformable in the event of impact. Once again, utterly brilliant.
I call shenanigans. No way did this kid's dad build this.
What we have here is a long lost Colin Chapman prototype.
In the vernacular of the youth: needs moar trash bin! Lightning Cars UK
For my own preferred enhancements, full differential drive using one of Samagaga's spiffy center sections would be ideal.
That's the most ghetto thing I've seen in a while. And it has my wholehearted endorsement!
In theory this even has forward/reverse if one can think of a clever way to push the drill direction button from driver's seat. Very full of awesome this thing is!
Bonus points for piano music instead of dubstep.
this is awesome in a way of introducing children to hacking their own things.
well if that worked, why aren't we using a drill on BOTH wheels (and then they will discover power drill motors are not anywhere close to neutrally timed).
my suggestion for things like this, ford radiator fan motors. they take 24V like a champ, pretty close to neutrally timed (hit me up if you want to know how to retime them), and are bi-directional (why ford made them bi-directional is completely beyond me)
They're bi-directional so that they can turn in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere of course!