As part of OMG’s outing to Kansas City Maker Faire this year, our own Eric Kaplan was interviewed for a PBS show called Wicked Awesome Stuff. The relevant episode (S1E2) can be found here: https://www.kmos.org/wicked-awesome-stuff/ The OMG segment begins at 20:15.
Once again, members of the Omaha Maker Group participated in the Kansas City Maker Faire. Due to a general lack of interest, we forwent an “official” OMG booth entirely this year, focusing instead on the Power Racing Series. Garrick and the Tesla coil crew had quite the show, though, and even got a photo of …
This weekend, Dave K was asking me some questions about the performance of our sweet LiFePO4 battery packs for the power wheels cars. At the time I was only able to answer his questions in generalizations, so I decided to sit down and show exactly how our lithium compares to more conventional lead-acid. We’re running …
Progress on the new Power Wheels racing car (Code Name STEVE) continues at a good pace! We’ve completed our innovative wood torsion box frame and are starting to lay out the other components for mounting. Here’s the recap: The overall dimensions of the cart are 4′ in length (to make good use of our raw …
OMG’s Team Steve (Power Wheels Racing Series team) has received most of its electronics parts for the car, including cells for two batteries, and some monster Anderson connectors. In terms of funding, we’re $15 away from goal. Any money we don’t use this year is going towards next year’s car.
Update: Button at the bottom is fixed, now It’s about time we get started on the power wheels racers for this year. We’re starting a fund raising campaign. We’re aiming for $1500 and we already have $610 raised, so only $890 to go! Thanks to everyone who has chipped in so far! $1500 sounds like …