The Baltimore Hackerspace entered 4 cars in the PPPRS race at the World Maker Faire New York 9/26-27/2015.
The Power Racing Series is the only sub-$500 DIY electric car racing series featuring hackers, makers and families.
We decided to participate in the chipKIT design challenge. Our entry is a KeeLoq shield, and Key Fob. Design Files / Firmware / Libraries are available here on github.
If you would like to vote for us, go here. Our Entry Number is ck765.
Here’s the video entry for the shield.
Possibly a more in depth write-up later. For now, we are tired. Enjoy !
So it’s that time again, time for Redbull Creation, 3rd year. I’ll make this short, just got the box, wanted to show some pics. Here’s what we got for the qualifier, our TurBull Encabulator. We’ll have updates on this later I’m sure. You may remember our entry last year, the telepresence zen garden, and our year 1 entry with crank’d and we went to the finals with that entry, where we built the chill-a-piller.
Lot’s of LED’s for the qualifier this year, maybe an accelerometer. Need more time to dive deep. Have fun with the pics.
It took a lot of hard work to get the kart ready in time for the PPPRS event at Maker Faire NYC 2012. But we made it!
Needless to say, we learned a lot. Mainly to get started a little earlier — and not wait until 2am the night before to get the kart moving.
Burnt Mosfets, burnt motors and broken wheels later we made it back home to ponder the next one. Here’s a video showing some of the races, we had fun.
