Wheels and weed whackers

posted Jun 6th 2008 5:00pm by Juan Aguilar
filed under: transportation hacks


Perhaps you’ve seen this image before: a young kid tooling around on a pair of inline skates, pushed forward by a weed whacker cycle. While the instructions for this device would seem fairly obvious (attach wheel to weed whacker) the writeup appears to be nonexistent. If you have any information, do let us know, but in the meantime, enjoy these other weed whacker powered projects.

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Roller-Walker (skating) robot

posted Sep 6th 2007 11:07pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: robots hacks


[Max T] sent in this interesting robot design. I dig the combo motion design. The legs can walk, or the wheels flip out time machine style to roll the robot around. Rather than power the wheels, the legs are used to skate the robot around – like a human on skates.

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