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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