Post your build out videos now!

[Jim Burke]

Hey. This year we have unprecedented attention from Make magazine and they want our content.

That's right anything you can throw at me we can get placed on their blog!

Send us your current build out videos! Show us a bit about your teams. Post this stuff asap.

I'll send out a blog post to Make on monday. I need videos by Sunday at midnight CST. 

Make a teaser video for your team! Show us some of the build out! 

Go Go Go. 

[Pete Prodoehl]

Here's what we did this weekend:

    http://milwaukeemakerspace.org/2013/03/red-lotus-repairs-part-ii/


Pete

[Sharon Mehl]

Duct Tape & Zip Ties is running into a little difficulty ... there is this white plague that keeps returning (see picture attached) ... I can't remember any winter where we got snow so many times!  Enough already!!   We are finished with FIRST Robotics ... it is time to turn our attention to PPPRS!

Sharon

Duct Tape & Zip Ties Racing Team

[Ray Scheufler]

Area 515 is also running into problems. Our first robotics isn't over yet. By the way, we are planning two cars. One for highschool students and one for the space.

Ray Scheufler

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Power Racing Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to power-racing-se...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
 
 

[Sharon Mehl]

Very cool!!   I was talking to a few local teams at the competition and might have a team interested in joining PPPRS ... need to finish up my homework for last week and then I will get the info together to send to them ... hoping Brian will build a car with a few of his friends (from Robotics team??) ... but he has to finance it ... thus the hesitation on his part.  ;-)

What a shame FIRST Robotics isn't over ... they are going to NATIONALS guys!!  Woot!

Sharon

[Jim Burke]

Fantastic stuff guys! I'm really glad everyone is keeping up to date on things!

And I'm super happy to know that DT&ZT is back to represent KC!

Sorry for the even worse than usual follow up to the season. Patrick and I are currently job hunting so it has hampered our time for getting the series done. Hopefully by May we'll have everything sorted out for the regular season!

Keep posting!

--

[Neumayer]

Here are some of cartastrophe.

[Neumayer]

And a few more.

[Mattmaxsr]

Team Kiss My Snake has been doing some late night testing and building...slow and not so steady

Here's a link to some pictures ...If I do this right. (I've never been on this board before?!?!

( https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200764022923999.1073741826.1265338275&type=3 )

Oh Hi Everyone, I'm Matt and this whole thing looks like fun!!!

[Steven Nelson]

Hi, we are Team Kiss My Snake (KMS) we are a combined team from Team K.I.S.S and Team Plumb Crazy (robotic combat folks). www.teamkiss.com and tpcbots.com .

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:07:57 AM UTC-7, Sanctioning Body wrote:

[Steven Nelson]

Some Pictures of Team KMS's Racer..

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:07:57 AM UTC-7, Sanctioning Body wrote:

[jesse]

heres my build video I dont count today as a win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X9h3PycyFxw

[Neumayer]

[Nabil Hanke]

Area 515 here,

We have been hardly at work on the power wheels as time slips us by. We have brakes!!  And steering that probably sucks!

And some video!

http://youtu.be/sAhL4CuFIN8

http://youtu.be/PmWQIF8r5uI

We got the seat sub-frame roughed in and hope to have the seat fully mounted today followed by some crude battery boxes so we can do half power tests before the weekend is out!

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:07:57 AM UTC-5, Sanctioning Body wrote:

[Tom Gralewicz]

Awesome!

(You might want to re-think your tires, go kart slicks are specifically prohibited in the rules)

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Power Racing Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to power-racing-se...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
 
 

--
Tom Gralewicz
Miller Electronics Recycling
(414) 380-1716
www.deadcomputers.com

[Alexander Honkala]

Power Wheels with legroom? Does not compute.

[Race Control, Patrick Callahan]

Tom is correct. Slick tires means you are taking it too seriously. We don't tollerate seriousness.

[Ray Scheufler]

We have another set of tires with tread that fit on those rims. 

There isn't that much legroom on that car once we put all the plastic on.  We are pushing the dimensional limits to get that much room.

Ray Scheufler

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Race Control, Patrick Callahan <pmca...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tom is correct.  Slick tires means you are taking it too seriously.  We don't tollerate seriousness.

[Nabil Hanke]

Seriously? 

We were kinda figuring on cutting tread into them. 

Electric Dream Machine Conversions

Changing the world one car at a time. 

www.edm-ev.com

On May 26, 2013, at 12:41 PM, "Race Control, Patrick Callahan" <pmca...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tom is correct.  Slick tires means you are taking it too seriously.  We don't tollerate seriousness.  

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Power Racing Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/power-racing-series/OaFAGH-NydM/unsubscribe?hl=en.
To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to power-racing-se...@googlegroups.com.

[Tom Gralewicz]

So now we need a minimum tread depth rule :-)

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Power Racing Series" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to power-racing-se...@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
 
 

[Nabil Hanke]

Just let us know ;)

Electric Dream Machine Conversions

Changing the world one car at a time. 

www.edm-ev.com

[Race Control, Patrick Callahan]

Garbage Car 2: The Wreckening is coming together.  All she needs is a motor controller to harness the beast under the seat.

[Zeke Nelson]

Things are just heating up here at Wedding Party headquarters. Not much to share yet, but thought I would post the CAD chassis design I have spent too much time working on. I have been using solvespace (a freeware CAD program) to do the hub and chassis design, and am quite impressed with it (considering that it is free and is so simple that I can run it on my $150 netbook).

[Karen Corbeill]

Hey 515,

I would heavily test your hydraulic brakes once your car is together. Last season I used two bike brakes, one mechanical, one hydraulic. The hydraulic one cut out consistently a few laps into a race. The problem comes with all the tight curves in the course and having to brake very frequently. A brake specialist from i3 concluded that the liquid in the hydraulic brake was heating up quickly and causing the brake to fail. Though, your cables look a lot thicker than the ones I used. But just a heads up. I can't tell you how much it sucks to try to race with brakes.

Cannonball Karen

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Zeke Nelson <eze...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:

Things are just heating up here at Wedding Party headquarters. Not much to share yet, but thought I would post the CAD chassis design I have spent too much time working on. I have been using solvespace (a freeware CAD program) to do the hub and chassis design, and am quite impressed with it (considering that it is free and is so simple that I can run it on my $150 netbook).

--

[Tom Gralewicz]

We've had no problems with the single hydraulic brake on Jakenstein, but we drained and refilled it with new fluid.

If you are using scavenged brakes try a complete fluid swap, moisture is a killer in brake systems.

Tom

[Bill French]

| I can't tell you how much it sucks to try to race with brakes.

Any other racing series and I would have assumed you meant "without".

Sent from my iPhone

[Nabil Hanke]

Lol!

Yeah, we have completely flushed our brakes. Though one is a bit spongier than the other, they stop us VERY well. We can lock them with ease. Or not lock them with control. 

But honestly, I wouldn't mind if our brake oil got hot. I don't mind the smell of French fries. Did I mention our fluid is canola oil? 

You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Power Racing Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/power-racing-series/OaFAGH-NydM/unsubscribe?hl=en.
To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to power-racing-se...@googlegroups.com.

[Karen Corbeill]

D'oh!

[Jon Halverson]

Here's a big milestone for us: http://youtu.be/M94UK-LlTNM
Junkyard Chevy Alternator
Scratch built inverter, and sensors. FPGA controller running on an eval platform for now. Field current is still from a power supply, as it needs a new PCB with better thermal design.

[Tom Gralewicz]

Telemetry, dam it where's the telemetry!

(Canola oil, really?)

[Ray Scheufler]

Canola oil is cheap, non toxic, and non corrosive. Given that we pulled our brakes and handles from different vehicles we wanted to make sure that our fluid wouldn't eat away the seals in either cylinder. Also we don't have to worry as much about cleanliness. It works well. We have plenty of stopping power and can lock the brakes easily.

Ray Scheufler