Power Racing Series Resources

Some miscellaneous websites, collected while poking around looking for information:

Power Racing Series main site 

Power Racing Series wiki 

Power Racing Series google group 

Power Racing Series on Vimeo 

Make Magazine series on putting a car together 

Maker Faire Power Wheels Pacing Race 1

Other Power Wheels modification sites:

http://www.modifiedpowerwheels.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/NIMBY-Power-Wheels-Racing/568621709817475 

http://www.saltydog.com/powerwheels/

Parts resources:

Power Wheels replacement parts

Freecycle

Craigslist

Harbor Freight Tools 

and don't forget your local recycling center. 

Team Radlamp

We are evolving from a Young Makers group into the Radlamp Race Team.

Radlamp generously offered to sponsor our Power Racer build, which even with the $500 budget cap is a costly project to split between only a few families.

This has coincided with the natural progression of the group into something more like a garage workshop. Instead of focusing solely on the teen projects, we all now work together in a more cooperative way. It's a looser, more social organization, and everyone seems happy with the way it's going.

Here is the Power Racer in progress:

testing batteries

removing the body

removing rusted brake

learning to use the Sawzall...

...to take off unnecessary bracing

motors from an old tape drive will power the wheels

lawnmower wheels on the frame

testing the body fit

our driver trying for size

And the first test drive? Pretty good, despite the silly sound effects.

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