SnoDeck – Motorized snow skateboard

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Nicholas sent in this fantastic SnoDeck – a motorized snow skateboard –

Systems Design Engineering students at University of Waterloo demonstrate a skateboard modded for use in snow. The dual tracks are driven by electric drill motors and suspended on elongated skate trucks. Turning radius is 2 meters. A wired kill switch stops the machine when the skater (tracker?) steps off.

SnoDeck (video) – Link.

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