Star Wars Speeder Bike
By Ben Everard. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
YouTuber and inventor extraordinaire James Bruton has been building a bike based on a hoverboard. That’s all you need to know really – go to the video right now and check it out. He’s taken the electronics from the hoverboard, added a huge number of 3D-printed parts, a stem and handlebar from a bike, an Arduino Uno, some bearings and potentiometers, and has created a mode of transport that doesn’t work – yet!
It’s fascinating to watch the journey of experimentation that James is on, as he modifies one thing after the next to get a working prototype. The hoverboard motors, for example, at first struggled with the extra weight of all that plastic, so James just put higher-voltage batteries in. Trial and error has seldom been more entertaining.
Ben is the Editor of HackSpace magazine. When not wrangling words, he enjoys cycling, gardening, and attempting to identify wild mushrooms.
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