Using wheelchair motors for a Hover Disk project

Dan Massey, a member of Programming Electronics Academy, shared this Arduino project he recently completed using wheelchair motors mounted to a wonderfully created platform.

It is a Hoverdisk, and while it doesn’t exactly hover – it sure gives the appearance of hovering.

To build it, Dan used two Arduinos, two Xbees, a Sabertooth Motor Controller, a latching relay, a Power Relay shield for an Arduino, an AudioFX Soundboard, two wheelchair motors, a bunch of batteries, LEDs (of course) and gave it one really awesome paint job!

He plans to show it off at his school – his students are going to think he is the coolest!

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The paint job is fantastic…

Student Arduino Project Hover disk with awesome captain america paint job

And did I mention he custom printed a bunch of the parts on his 3D printer?

If you want to see how he built it, you can check out the instructable he made.  It has the Arduino code and schematics that he used.

Thanks Dan for sharing this project!

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4 Comments

  1. Ep. 1: Dan Massey - Programming Electronics Academy on February 10, 2017 at 5:21 pm

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