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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 15
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 15

by Mark Frauenfelder
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 8m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 15

Go-Karts Race to College

Winner gets a $10,000 college scholarship. Loser goes home.

By Nate Ball

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Photography by Helen Tsai

Some high school students deliver newspapers or wash dishes to save money for college. The teens on the reality-based TV show Design Squad try to outbuild each other.

On our final episode of Season 2 we divided our young cast into two teams, and gave them identical sets of parts for off-road go-karts: front and rear suspension, steering, engine and rear drive train, seats, seat belts, and brakes. The teams had to design the chassis, roll cage, and side impact protection, taking into consideration how their designs would affect ...

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