Weird looking f1 car
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@leg1231
- 13 Devlogs
- 129 Total hours
Working on a fully open sourced 3ft long f1 car using 2 motors I repurposed from a hoverboard.
Ship #1
Pending review
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Weird looking f1 car
I made an f1 car, kinda. I purchased an old hoverboard for $10 that didn’t work. I didn’t want to thow it away so I decided to repurpose the motors into a rc car. I’ve been working on this for while because of all the little details that I had overlooked in the beginning. The hardest part for me was the drive train. Making something 3d printed deal with the torque meant to move a human is a hard feet to do. It took many iteration to finally work. It is very fast and fun to drive. I hope to get an fpv set at some point so i can drive from inside the car.
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7h 49m 7s logged
FINAL DEV LOG, hopefully. I just finished making all the instruction videos. finished up the github, made a demo video (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hctG1Nq7Nto). shipping in 3, 2, 1.
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8h 1m 47s logged
I broke it again!!!! hopefully the last time. I found out why though, it would lose signal and not stop the motors so would just crash into whatever it was headed toward. Im doing some final details now, including making sure my remote doesn’t just turn off:)
- increasing infill
- worked on upper chassi
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16h 42m 17s logged
IT FINALLY WORKS!!!! still have alot to do but it can move and steer on its own.
- made the final circuit board( small form factor
- working on final placment of componets
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10h 17m 31s logged
Its starting to look Cool!!!! you can now see why i called it wierd looking f1 car, half the engine area is just a motor
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9h 9m 50s logged
It only looks a little sus. next thing to do is finish the body and work on wiring. I was about to do the first full test then realized the battery was dead. ILL BE BACK
- temporrary wiring
- slgiht bend in chassi
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8h 58m 52s logged
I replaced the 3d printed axles with steel rods, then remade the main chassy to be more sturdy, then the front stearring broke. so much fun : |
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8h 38m 2s logged
This is the full size of it. i ran the motors and the rear axel limitedly snapped. It couldn’t handle the torque :(
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9h 12m 55s logged
Fully assembled front stearing. V1
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7h 51m 38s logged
hopefully done with the steering and front wheel base
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5h 4m 6s logged
Working on the front stearing struts and part of the body( this is half, ill mirror it once I like how it is working)
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8h 6m 39s logged
Started working on front steering. Each wheel will steer individually so that i can test both postive ackermen and reverse ackermen stearing
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10h 26m 28s logged
from a cad file to physical
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18h 56m 41s logged
first dev log, some of this was done during the school year, ive had to do multiple ideration of gear space a so on. drive train of car, all 3d printed
