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! :)

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Bruh sounds like your wore those breaks out. Honestly though, where I live a motorized cooler could actually be a thing people buy. It would need sand tires though.

    • motsu@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      yeah, the VESC firmware has traction control settings, so each speed controller is talking to the others and has a maximum allowed speed range between the wheels, which might help for sand? trying to accelerate on wet grass, there was a bit of slip, but you could hear the motors all micro adjusting their speed, and eventually you would get moving enough that they all went back to full power. sand might be a bit harder because the wheels + weight would want to dig into the sand.

      but yeah, it was pretty nice - when i went to the general store to get ice, the people working there were unloading ice from a truck up on the street, and walking it down in plastic bins (probably a 2 or 3 minute walk from their van). They looked at the cooler kart with envy haha - so i could see some applications for it, but they are all fairly niche, and less transportation focused i suppose