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Electronics is installed on a specific plate set on the floor of the bathtub... All nuts are placed within the plate for the case I have to change something on the setup on the field, and this will avoid to fight with nuts moving out of the tub...


I put the pilote in the car once the assembly was done to take some pics with lights on...





I still need to find a way to make a safety belt for the pilot, and a way to install the bumper, and a fake engine. I modified one I found on Printables (I did not have the time to design one mysefl), and I need to find a way to install it..

Use bolduc for the safety belt.

Hi, Great and very fun project

Yesterday, worked to make a TPU bumper. I was not happy with the bumper provided, and wanted somthing more reliable for the bumper. So I designed one.


Then came printing. I load the TPU and launch the print this morning. It's a fairly long print as TPU is slow. I was working from home, so I could have a look at lunch time...
TPU roll was almost empty, and 80% of the print.


I thought about it, there was no point to stop the print. I have a TPU roll on order, and it should arrive tomorrow. I let it go, that may be a very close call, I thought...

I went at my coffee break. Print was completed...


But that was very close to filament runout (a few millimeters : launching a print just to see got a filament run out 2 seconds after it started to extrude). What a synchronisation!!!

The Bumper is designed to it flexes and participate to the dampering of the front, it also gives a proper angle to the car by moving the front up slightly when the car is not running... I'll have to take some picture of the car in the new configuration, which I did not...

Next was to take care of the seats fastener. They acts as radio / accu box lid, and they needs a fastener. The overall idea was to use a screw with a roller. But now, I also need to set a safety belt for my driver... I thought about it like a 3 points safety belt, and that means I need to have something mounted on top of my roller to fasten the seat to set the said safety belt...
I designed 2 parts for thsi : one with 2 independant bodies designed for an in place print (0.2mm clearance between the bodies is enough as per my experience), and another one that will be fixed on top of it (for the safety belt loop). 


And that worked like a charm...



I will need to set the 2 other safety belt points, but that should be fairly easy with the existing screws already in the car (plan could be to use one of the roll bar, and one of the battery support...

The driver has now a safety belt! And the fake engine is in place...






I still need to review a very small detail on rear wheels, and then it will be time for the final decoration with red vynils to increase the "Hot Wheels" effect...

Everythings is now in order, and it is time to finish it, really...

A quick search on internet to search a jpg of a logo, a 2 minutes activity in Silhouette Studio, the cut, and then we start to transfer something on the bonnet . I had a Dune buggy in my mind, from when I was not even a teenager, and it was a Hotwheel. I can't remeber the scheme, I can't find it on internet, but even being different, it will remind me enough when I was young...


The blue and red goes well together...


The driver has a cool attitude, and the car is definitely looking like a magnified Hotwheels...



Last detail to deal with was to attach the protective goggles to the driver...





That was really a fun project... And this driver is cool and fun and goes very well with the Hotwheels car

Some of the parts are now live on makerworld for this car: 
makerworld.com/...els/778556