Maker Faire Detroit 2011

Power Racing Series presented by i3 Detroit

The Power Racing Series (PPPRS) is an event where Hacker/Whateverspaces turn those toys cars that everyone wanted but only stupid Brad from down the street owned (even though everyone hated him), into highly competitive sort-of racing machines. Teams are allowed quite a few liberties (motors, batteries) but we also made a few restrictions so you masochistic engineers can pleasurably cry yourselves to sleep at night. You have $500 to do this with (aside from safety equipment, cause we don't want to mop you up either). You also compete in three events, and you'll have to do more than just drive fast (re: be entertaining) to win points. After all, it's not like we want an actual race to break out. Oh and it is rather unsafe, so you'll sign a waiver. You built it, so we knew you'd understand

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PPPRS Car and Team: HackPittsburgh HackPittsburgh Racing Team
HackPittsburghs entry into the Power Wheels Racing Series at Maker Faire Detroit. Built from a power wheels jeep with added scooter motors and lawn tractor parts.

PPPRS Car sqrt(-9) - Team: i3 Detroit i3 Detroit
Car sqrt(-9) is a top-secret skunkworks project of i3detroit. The novel propulsion system gives the car unparalleled maneuverability. The design was inspired by a robot built by our FIRST Robotics team, the Turbo Trojans of Clawson High School (3302).

PPPRS Car: #3 - Team: i3 Detroit i3 Detroit
Car #3 is the defending champion of the Power Racing Series. Built by the members of i3detroit, Metro Detroit's first hackerspace. For 2011, the car has higher voltage, an improved drivetrain and more style than ever.

PPPRS Car: AHA - Team: AHA Michael Flynn
Presenting 2 cars in the race

PPPRS Car: Baby Burrito - Team: Milwaukee Makerspace Milwaukee Makerspace
Modified power wheels hummer with a 24v battery pack. Car number 25.

PPPRS Car: Big Jake - Team: Milwaukee Makerspace David Feng
Modified Power Wheels car for adult racing fun! Steel frame, pneumatic tires, two car batteries and a 750W scooter motor and controller.

PPPRS Car: CCCKC - Team: CCCKC Paul Kenyon
CCCKC Powerwheels

PPPRS Car: Cop Cycle PS1:GP - Team: Pumpingstation:One Pumping Station: One
Micro CHIP is a modified Police Motocycle PowerWheel with scooter parts. She has a modified 24 volt motor and has a top speed of about 12 mph. She also has larger batteries giving her a run time of about 90 minutes.

PPPRS Car: Duct Tape & Zip Ties - Team: Make KC Group Duct Tape & Zip Ties Racing Team
Slogan: "We do what we must ... because we can." Motto: "There is no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying until you run out of duct tape."

PPPRS Car: Grandeizzzzzeeeerrrrr - Team: OmniCorpDetroit OmniCorpDetroit
Haling from OmniCorpDetroit, the Grandeizzzzzeeeerrrrr is the synergetic force of strength and power

PPPRS Car: Grave Digger - Team: Milwaukee Makerspace Royce Pipkins
Grave Digger is a PowerWheels racer. Starting with the stock Grave Digger PowerWheels vehicle I added a welded steel support frame and two 500 Watt scooter motors. Two deep-cycle marine batteries provide 24 volts of power.

PPPRS Car: Little Pink Trike - Team: Milwaukee Makerspace Tom Gralewicz
A (heavily) modified power wheels trike. Includes a lawn tractor transmission and rear wheels, high power winch motor, 2 high output car batteries and a golf cart motor controller.

PPPRS Car: Luscious Liz - Team: Emag Power Racing Series
A horrible mash between scooter parts, a Kettcar frame and a Harley Motorcycle body. Together they create a 3 wheeled demon. Top speed is about 18mph.

PPPRS Car: MacGyver - Team: CCCKC Michael Overstreet
The car has parts from a lawn mower, scooter, bike, power wheels car and local dumpsters! This car is a group project by the Kansas City Hackerspace with almost all members having some part in it’s design, construction and parts procurement.

PPPRS Car: Makers Mark - Team: I-Hacked Team i-Hacked
Hummer H2 PPPRS car.

PPPRS Car: Mini-Z Dojo - Team: Tiny RC, Inc. David Groom
Presenting Mini-Z Dojo

PPPRS Car: OCD and ADD - Team: OmniCorp Detroit OmniCorpDetroit
Another power wheels entry from OmniCorpDetroit

PPPRS Car: Pimp'n Hoopty Escalade - Team: i3 Detroit Nick Britsky
1000 watt sound system with 15" sub-woofer, Sirius Sound/GPS Nav System and 6" of Pneumatic Body Lift. It is build on a modified Power Wheels Escalade body and will never EVER win the race. But it will look darn good losing.

PPPRS Car: Pitrats - Team: OmniCorpDetroit OmniCorpDetroit Pitrats
The OmniCorpDetroit Pitrats are back and looking to dominate this years Power Wheels race with our raw synergistic energy. Expect seriousness from our team of incubating, sustainable, strategic, revolutionary leaders

PPPRS Car: Power Pegs Power Pegs!
Converting a regular electric ride-on child's toy into a racecar built for an adult and participating in the Power Wheels race!

PPPRS Car: Razzzor! - Team: CCCKC Cowtown Computer Congress Kansas City
The Razzor Power Wheels vehicle was born out of blood, sweat, and dead scooter parts.

PPPRS Car: Ring^6 Banana Phone - Team: OmniCorpDetroit OMNICORPDETROIT
Modified 36V powerwheel for powerwheels race

PPPRS Car: Sector67 - Team: Sector67
Sector67 has created and is racing a fast, all electric power wheels vehicle.

PPPRS Car: Steve - Team: LVL1 LVL1
Not your kids power wheels. This Powerwheels was build for speed.

PPPRS Car: TFD/Black Frog - Team: TFD Racing Techno Tadpoles FIRST Lego League/Novi MI
TFD (Tadpoles, Frogs, and Dogs) Racing entry for Power Racing series events at Detroit Maker Faire.

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