And We're Back

It has been an eventful year.  I'm finally back to working on projects.

After some firmware fiddling, the new drive units are finally spinning, driven by the kart's original gen 2 Prius-based inverter:

Drive Units Mounted

Drive unit mounting parts

All bonded together

A torsion-less bar, if you will

Kart Steering Yoke

A fun afternoon design project:

Grip geometry still  needs some fine-tuning

Working on the kart again

 Finally retrieved it from MITERS, where it's been hanging from the ceiling for the last six years or so

Prius inverter based motor drive will be the next thing to be redone after it drives again:

Off on an adventure

Why haven't I been building anything?  I was off on an Adventure.

Spinning Drive Unit

 

Slapped a mini cheetah motor drive on there to make it go

Assembled Rotors

That's looking like a drive unit

 

Missing a rotor

Machining a new shaft for the rotor:

Improvised chip deflector for roughing

nice

Other side done

bearing and lock ring test fit

Next to the stock shaft.  Going for a normal press vs the straight knurl on the stock shaft.

I don't own a 2d printer and didn't plan far enough ahead to print the drawing at work, so this happened

Making More Kart Parts

 

Single-point keyway broaching

Ring Gear Machining

Ice Trike

 Dane tricked me into building something dumb

ice skate in a garbage pile at miters

bridgeporting out a skate holder

tires tuds

photo from adi

other dubious ice vehicles