Wooden Go-Kart
Summer 2020 - Fall 2021
When I was 11 years old my brothers and I assembled a motor bike (first picture). We rode it a lot and also tried making all sorts of trailers for it (first picture). Later, we made a wooden go-kart with brakes. After getting it to work, I put on brakes, lights, horn, and steering with a steering wheel instead of steering with feet.
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This was an early example of a kart we made to get towed by the motor bike. I was in the kart and my brother was riding the motor bike.
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This is another cart we designed. We put our dog in it too.
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This handle is the wheel brake we made.
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This is another angle of the wheel brake.
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This was the start of the wooden go kart.
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Our dog, Petrica, is happy to be there.
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My brother was testing the steering.
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We were testing the kart here.
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The following pictures go through the building process.
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This is me drilling in the holes for the brake handle.
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The brake handles. My little brother is in the background. He was taking a break from playing soccer.
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This is me hammering in the brake handle.
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This is my little brother testing it out.
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This is me working on doing the wiring for the lights.
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The lights I wired work!
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I even put some under glow on it.
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This is all the wiring I did.
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This was working on the wiring for the horn. I used a car air horn and wired up a power tool batter with some switches.
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This is were I put the switches for the horn. It worked - it was very loud!
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This picture and the following are the steering mechanism I created to use a steering wheel.
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The steering wheel isn't attached. It would go at the top of the steering column. This is the final iteration of the kart.