Drill Powered Bike

In my Component Design class, the final project was to build a drill-powered bike. The main rule is that it has to have more than 2 wheels. Our team created a tricycle design with two rear wheels and a singular front wheel, allowing the front wheel to pilot the bike. Our design takes advantage of old bike parts for the wheels, gears, chain, handlebar, and bake lines, the rest of the bike was designed from square-inch steel and hand welded by myself.  One rear wheel is powered through a chain from the drill allowing for better turning. Some of the main features to design for the bike were the drill plate, the pillow blocks (to hold the drill in place), and the steel frame. Each manufactured part has complete CAD drawings with proper tolerances. In the final race our design won our team 1st place in the endurance competition and 2nd place in the drag race.

In this project, I learned how to create proper engineering drawings, and weld steel. I also improved my CAD and leadership skills. I am most proud of the assembly work done in CAD and by hand to create a really fun final result.

The final report with engineering drawings and a video of the operational bike are linked below. Feel free to click around and check them out.