Power Racing Series at Maker Faire Detroit

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2012/08/01 @ 7:30 am
Category Hackerspaces, Home

Once again the folks at PPPRS have put on a great show! How does this not look 1000% fun?

The world’s only $500 electric motorsport continues on at Maker Faire Detroit! The 2nd round of the 4th season of the Power Racing Series competed on July 28-29 at the Henry Ford Museum. Here are just some of the thrills and spills that went down. I’d like to thank Sector 67, i3 Detroit, Omni Corp Detroit, J-Squad, Pumping Station: One, CCCKC, Ribbon Farm, Hack Pittsburgh, “The Wedding Party”, Velocihacktor, and Milwaukee Makerspace.

BY John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, comics, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets, & toys.

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8 Responses to Power Racing Series at Maker Faire Detroit

trkemp on August 1st, 2012 at 8:16 am said:

Grrrr! I find the modern fashion of exaggerating by claiming that something is more than 100% of a whole incredibly annoying.

I know in John’s case he’s just doing it for emphasis and knows that “1000% fun” makes no sense, but I hear people on TV saying things like, “give it 150% effort”, “I’m 200% ready!” or “I’m a million percent in love!”. What my mind translates that to is, “I’m mathematically ignorant and proud of it!”

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- John Baichtal on August 1st, 2012 at 8:31 am said:
  
  Fair enough! Looks like LOTS of fun.
  
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  trkemp on August 1st, 2012 at 8:46 am said:
  
  I agree, it does.
  
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  Pete Prodoehl on August 1st, 2012 at 9:54 am said:
  
  As someone who got recruited as a track marshal and then as a driver (!?) I will go so far as to say it was “a ton” of fun!
  
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  Jerry Murray on August 1st, 2012 at 10:13 am said:
  
  Standard or metric?
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badjuujuu on August 3rd, 2012 at 7:23 am said:

You didn’t thank LVL1

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Jason on August 3rd, 2012 at 4:41 pm said:

Are we thanking the guy who purposefully ran into the guard rail sending the small child to the hospital as well?

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