/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1247006
My brother is a drone/rc guy so he had some of the stuff already. There were a lot of asshole moments getting things to work because he was using a motor from a massive RC car that was Too powerful.

It was a motor (motor and gearbox would have been better) on the back "step" of the trike along with a lump of LiPo batteries and a cheap receiver. A servo was mounted under the seat and connected to a hacked-together steering assembly with a bent push rod attached to a stand-off projecting from the handlebar stem.

Problems were: the motor shredding the gears, original wheels being horrible and hard, welds on the axle cracking, motor mounts twisting off because Traxis is weird in some way. There was a lot of fiddling with this thing.

Finishing touch- a little pair of white shoes wired to the pedals. Smeared in blood, trailing dark shreds, connected to a thin black elastic cord attached to the handlebars to they stay upright. Original inspiration: This trike from Cirque. You can almost see the details that make it work. Steering in this case was with cables attached to the horns of a servo and routed along the frame, somewhat like bike brake cables. Bike brake cable stuff would probably be a great material to work from. And I want to remote-ize a real bike bell.