This motorized beer cooler is too much fun!
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I turn an ordinary drink cooler into a crazy electric vehicle that can transport you AND your drinks while keeping them ice cold!The working speed controller...

so yeah, first time making an electric vehicle. the intent is to reuse the battery and ESC on an ebike.

A lovely person at the event i brought the motorized cooler kart to traded vehicles with me for 10 minutes, and i got to ride his electric mountain bike with a mid mount motor, and it was awesome, so i have the itch for that now.

Anyway, more of a goofy and fun project, I wouldn’t say it was practical, and definitely won’t change the world, but hopefully is brings some entertainment to your lives! :)

  • motsu@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    well, I wanted to to be a goofy and unique project, so having the wheels be in the “normal” location would be a less interesting to me. Also, the trike had a “male” axle for a wheel to mount to, and the hoverboard wheels also had a “male” stub coming out of the motor hub, so mounting them together would have required something to offset and join the parts together. Since I wanted to do 2 wheels on each side, a triangle just kind of made sense. In retrospect, they should have been a bit shorter so the top of the cooler was level. I chose to not use cad, since i have been relying on it a lot for other projects, and sometimes its fun to just make something and kind of make it up as you go along, but if i had designed it in the computer first, then i would have realized that the rear wheel height was too high. :)

    • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’m not sure I was clear enough. I didn’t mean to suggest that the wheels should all be mounted on the same axle somehow, I just meant that they could be in the same plane. So, you’d still have three wheels in line with each other on each side, but all on the same level so that your trike frame sits flat.