Motorized Longboard

What were you building in your junior year of highschool? Well, for [Aaron Cofield], he built a motorized longboard. He started with a plain longboard in the design he liked, gave it a nice paint coat (aesthetics over functionality people!) and then started looking into motorizing it. As it turns out there’s...

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Shopping Trolley is Wired for Camp

[James] needed some cool transportation for the upcoming Easter Camp in New Zealand, so he created a custom motorized shopping trolley that is sure to turn heads. The base of this project is a standard mobility scooter, which conveniently has a modular design. All of the electronics have connectors for quick...

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Bally’s Bomber – A 1/3rd Replica of a B-17G

One of our tipsters just sent us this fascinating story about The Bally Bomber, a single man’s huge undertaking that started back in 1999. It’s a 1/3rd scale version of the B-17G Bomber — and no, it’s not remote controlled, there will be a pilot.Not familiar with the B-17G? What about its trade name? It’s...

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