For an awesome Halloween edition of [PrankvsPrank], they decided to make a remote controlled “magic carpet” for [Aladdin]. It’s absolutely fantastic.
[PrankvsPrank] isn’t really known for making stuff we’d feature on Hackaday, so they got some help with the project from the [CaseyNeistat] a New York YouTuber. As you can probably guess, at the heart of this magic carpet is actually an electric skateboard. A Boosted Board to be specific– it was a very successful Kickstarter a few years ago.
They built a lightweight frame out of plastic pipe and wrapped fabric around it to make it look like a proper carpet out of the cartoon. Once they had it all set, they took it for a spin through the streets of NYC, catching people’s reactions along the way.
And of course, they also have a nice video about how they did it as well.
You missed the Halloween boat this year, but maybe next year you can build your own electric skateboard and try something similar?
Total voll cool :)
not really a hack but lovely!
Sure its a hack. They took an everyday item (e-skateboard) and turned it into a Magic Carpet! Manipulating electrons to do new and wonderful things is my kinda hack. Love the New York scenes.
Wow, +1000 coolcoins!!!
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Ah! At last, a use for USB’s magic carpet support. (No, seriously: see page 42 http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/Hut1_12v2.pdf)
Nice !
TIL Hack = cable-tying red felt to a pvc box and attaching that to a skateboard
Turban or fez? I see you are staying out of the “hotter places”. A fez will do.
you’re never gonna do it, with that fez on.
why is this listed here?
They then flew a quadcopter around in the middle of NYC, not exactly a good thing to do. In the video they talk about it “hitting buildings” because of the wind…
What is a ‘State Private Park’ ???!!!!