Tag Archives: PPPRS

Sector67 Presents: The Fauxrarri 2012 PPPRS Championship car build

Posted on August 13, 2012 by JKerman

For the last year, when people from the street stop by Sector67 and ask what a hackerspace is, my first stop has been the PPPRS car that sits prominently on our shop floor.   It shows off so many capabilities of … Continue reading →

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PPPRS Nerf Attack

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Waterppk

The Power Racing Series (hopped up Power Wheels racing) has alluded to requiring Nerf weapons this year for a section of the competition.  We’ve been doing some proper R&D, using the Navy’s cruise missile destroying gun as a goal: Some … Continue reading →

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Closing Out July

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Waterppk

It was a lonnnngggg month with a lot of new projects: Working on an e-textile turn signal jacket: Creating a sewing template with a 3,000# CNC milling machine, seems oddly appropriate:The July meeting had a bunch of cool projects, including … Continue reading →

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June Updates

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Waterppk

Lots going on through June! Trying to figure out what we should do with an empty power wheels jeep body. . . A short time later things were getting closer: Of course part of ordering the universe requires some disorder, … Continue reading →

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Kansas City Maker Faire

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Waterppk

Sector67 had a road trip down to Kansas City June 25th-26th to catch the mini Maker Faire and race our PPPRS vehicle.  We also stayed at <a href=”http://www.hammerspacehobby.com/”>Hammerspace</a> and toured <a href=”http://blog.cowtowncomputercongress.org/”>CCCKC</a> (the infamous hackerspace in a cave). Iron Man … Continue reading →

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Sector67 Sweeps First Day of PPPRS

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Waterppk

We arrived safely in Kansas City at about 5:30am at Hammerspace, slept for a few minutes/hours, and then headed to Union Station downtown to unpack and get the car set up.  Teams were amazing, there was about 13 cars running … Continue reading →

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Power Wheels Running

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Waterppk

The car was built in 2 days, but tweaking took a few weeks. . . We’ve got 2.5 HP worth of propulsion and a Lithium Ion battery to boot!  Everything seems to be working, it’ll soon be sitting comfortable in … Continue reading →

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May in Closing. . .

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Waterppk

New electrical service, finally at 200A 240VAC instead of 100A (yes, that would be a 80′s residential connection on a commercial building): Tim’s been rocking the art metal, if you’re interested we’ve usually got creations for sale at the shop! … Continue reading →

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May in Updates. . .

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Waterppk

Well, I sat down to dig through the camera for blog pictures and found that I had 213 pictures to choose from since the last update . . . might be time to ‘hire’ a journalism intern for the summer! … Continue reading →

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