Finally got around to wiring up my shop for charging the roadster.
Unfortunately, I took so long that my 12v battery died (it’s now a 7v battery, ugh), but the main pack seems like it’s still okay (sitting at 386v, full charge should be close to 400v)
The charger itself is pulling 16a at 256v, sucking down about .8kw in half an hour. It’ll take a while to charge, but I’m not in a rush to daily drive the roadster quiet yet (as fun as it is around the neighborhood).
I’m still playing around with the roadster a little.
I decided to see how parts off a c6 Corvette would fit. They looked like they lined up on the card model pretty nicely. In the real world, the panels still lined up pretty well, but I’m scratching my head on how to attach the panels without them feeling doubling the weight of the roadster.
I’m a bit tempted to just go the exoskeleton route and put enough body work on it to keep people from messing with the wiring.
GREAT WORK buddy! I love seeing your progress on this…
Firefly style reapers
So this was the rough body work from the 10yr anniversary event last December:
The concept worked (quick and cheap - painters tape over 1/4in steel round rod) but I wasn’t happy with how it looked then.
I haven’t had a chance to work on it much since then, so I decided to do a build thrash last Thursday for a car show the following day…
This is how the roadster looked at the start of Thursday night.
My coworkers thought it was awesome! It was a good hook to try and get them interested in joining MakeICT.
Much nicer… the form looks very sporty.
Killer!
Just found this, love it, Simply amazed at how much hard work that must of been to find all these things
And wow blue painters table looks better than I could think.
I’m slowly making progress. I’m a lot happier with how the design is going, but there’s still the zen of opening a Christmas present every time I pull the tape off when I’m not happy with how something is turning out.
Wow, that’s great! Add a rear wing and you’ll be ready for the Hypercar class at Le Mans this year!
Looking great man!
Getting back to the roadster a bit. Came to the realization how limited my blender skills were so i reached out to an artist in the Ukraine that had been cranking out some very nice CAD models of European cars. It took a few months of colaboration on the design, but i think we’ve come to a pretty amazing design.
So to go from digital to reality, i’ve been 2d printing the panels. I picked up a large format printer to decrease the number of seams and pieces to make the body work slightly easier. In addition, i’ve been able to print the panels really quick with a 1.6mm nozzle and flow rate of .5kg/hr. Each of the big panels has taken 14 to 17hrs and about 2kg of filament. I think i’m about 30kg of filament into this project.
Nice
Wow… I just stumbled upon this and all of my wandering. This is amazing.!!!
This is super cool, Rustin. Do you have a name for the car? Badging/logos would be a cool finishing touch.
It needs to be a girl name. I agree, Rustin Motors totally needs some fancy metal badges. 
We do have a jewelry lab that can do small casting
