MIT Student recreates Mario Kart in the university hallways

[garyopa]

He created a battery-operated kart



MIT Student Charles Guan has managed to create a super-compact battery operated go-kart

In the field after recerating Mario Kart in the real life, After Remi Gaillard, here comes Charles Guan!

A MIT student who has created the Chibikart, an electric mini go-kart that the majority of us will kill for having one.

It is all handmade using 4-wheel direct drive engine and batteries.

According to the Dailymail:

Mario Kart was one of the most popular, addictive computer games of all-time, and brings back many fond memories for gamers of the 1990s.

It had a big influence on MIT student Charles Guan, who has build his own Mario Kart from scratch - tearing it down the halls of MIT late at night when no-one is watching.

The Nintendo game, which first appeared on the SNES console in 1992 before leaping over to the Nintendo 64, inspired Guan - an 'electromechanical hobbyist' - to build his project as a test of his engineering skills and knowledge of mathematics.

Apart from the video in the MIT hallways you can find another featuring a race between two karts in a Parking Lot.

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Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news story!

[wewii]

What does this have to do with gaming / electronics?

[garyopa]

What does this have to do with gaming / electronics?

One of those weird/funny stories related/link to gaming by the author/media - ie. Mario Kart in this example, no more weirder then the guy trying to build a flying bird suit using wii remotes (of course that one turned out to be a hoak), at least this one is real!

The Nintendo game, which first appeared on the SNES console in 1992 before leaping over to the Nintendo 64, inspired Guan - an 'electromechanical hobbyist'