Velomobile Body build
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video you will get to watch a year worth of progress in making a one of a kind Velomobile body from scratch.
The basic process to produce this body is just like building a Cedar Strip canoe.
I started off by drawing the shape of the Velomobile on paper. I then built modeled the body 3 Dimensionally in a program called Autodesk Maya. Once the body had been modeled to scale in the computer I could then isolate Individual curves/Cross sections and print them full size.
These curves were then printed with a large scale printer, traced onto garage door insulation foam and cut out with a jigsaw. I chose a jigsaw because it doesn't make toxic fumes, it is quick and extremely efficient, and the blades don't dull out cutting foam.
The cross sections were then laid on top of the full scale drawings and glued to one another usi
Great job I love the video it's like watching a car company making a concept car
Cool hat
i will do this kind off style but starwars style. well done dude
Awesome choice and great idea. Can't wait to see the next steps. Yeah the process is like building a canoe but also like building an aircraft... may open new ways for DIY builders!
That is always my hope. I am not completely sure if I would build it this way again, but my initial idea was to keep the foam as an internal layer sandwiched inside the Carbon Fiber exterior layers. I am now thinking about just using the initial foam body as just the form to put the carbon fiber around....
Velo 'Merican
Great, that's exactly what I wished you had in mind. I think it is going to be really a good job. I will stay tuned!
welcome aboard my friend
So cool to see this in order and the incredible amount of work you are putting in. It's a good thing you love this project so much 😃 I can't wait to see the next installment.
The next installment is coming soon
This is so dope. These are very expensive but I'm sure if I put effort in, I could make one, too. And it took you only 9 minutes to make!
Wow! You put a lot of work into that. It shows very well, how much work developers put into velomobiles when building them. I hope you will be able to finish that project and that we´ll see some more results. And of course, you will not be tipped over by sidewinds. ;)
Great work! es increíble la manera en la que diseñaste el carenado
great video, fantastic job and thankyou for sharing it!
Impressive work, there! Cool design!
bravissimo!
Love your work, AIRplane nut myself, and I was thinking along the same lines, if I ever wanted to do one of my own. WW2style airplane look
New videos are coming!!!
nice. i like d way u build it from zero
nice top hat
Looking good
And did you finished it?
Just to ask, what do you teach?
I am a middle school computer applications and robotics teacher. I have a shop endorsement that was needed for robotics. I also use a 3d printer in my class for a class (I find it a bit funny, I heard a student saying that I teach 3d art. The thing is that there is a drawing class called 3d art. I can see how people are getting confused).
I have been looking at the Maslow CNC machines and thinking of pulling that into some activities, including robotics club fundraisers.
This brings me to my next question, how did you draw the students into the build?
Robert Crawford I teach Computer Animation and Video Game Design. The students naturally gravitated to the build because it inhabited the center of my classroom. I own my own Velomobile now and I absolutely love ot
I just found out about dynamo bike hubs that could power your velomoblie
Oh, do go on? You've found perpetual motion?
What kind of specific garage door insulation foams did you use? I don't live in the USA and in many cases, we have other product names.
Hello, in minute 03:14 how did you export that? I have my model in slicer for fusion 360 and I would like to do the same approach of yours
I made a grid in the Background of my 3d modeling program (Maya) the grid is set to inches. I then took screen shots and in Photoshop sized the picture to match the dimension as best as possible. Then to a big printer. The best thing that is doesn't have to be perfect. I cut the foam a little large and shaped it to exactly what I wanted!!! Best of luck to you!!!
6:38 Do you have a peak inside, like a little mountain top?
Ethan Lamoureux not sure what you mean....
peak (pēk)
n. A tapering, projecting point; a pointed extremity: the peak of a cap; the peak of a roof.
n. The pointed summit of a mountain.
n. The mountain itself.
One often sees the verb peek mistyped as a peak. "To" and "too", ditto. Just poking some fun. :)
Which material is this
@@ishanchopra9827 the material that I started with it garage door insulation foam that can be found at most local hardware stores, I found mine at Home Depot
May I ask what the students reaction was to the build?
BadBent absolutely.... some students were so excited they almost demanded daily updates and wondered when I was going to finish it! Others paid little attention to it. I wanted to show them that anything that they designed in the computer could be real
:)
Hi would it be possible for you to email me the specs of your velomobile
I would but the Velomobile was designed around a specific trike. The trike was one that i made in the garage and wont fit anything else. Since i built the body The original trike has been abandoned for a new one that I purchased. I am now in the process of making a new body to go around the new trike, rendering the old body useless....
Velo 'Merican iam looks to build a velomobile from scratch and I liked the one that you built my email address is fitzy556@gmail.com and thanks a million