Collaborate Disseminate
Although the jogging stroller is a fixture of suburban life, allowing parents the opportunity to get some exercise while letting their young children a chance for some fresh air, it …read more Continue reading A Better Jogging Stroller
In what shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, electric-assist baby strollers are now a thing. And if you’re wishing that your old-school manual stroller had a motor … well, the Easy-Way kit is designed to give it one.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Th… Continue reading Aftermarket motor kit puts the power to the pram
If you’re traveling with a small child, you typically have to bring both a folding stroller and a suitcase. The Strollug is designed to simplify matters by transforming from a stroller into luggage and back again, as needed.Continue ReadingCategory: Go… Continue reading Dual-purpose Strollug is the lovechild of a stroller and a suitcase
Although pushing a baby in a stroller certainly is easier than carrying it, some effort still is required. The Ella stroller is designed to make things easier, with electric-assist motors, a Hands-Free mode, and various other “smart” features.Continue … Continue reading High-tech motorized Ella could be the Tesla of strollers
Raising young children is hard work, and parents need all the help they can get. There’s a whole industry catering to parents who are willing to pay to make their lives a little easier. Then, we have hacker minded parents like [Sam Pearce] who build his own solutions like joystick-controlled …read more
Continue reading StrollerController Free Parents From Menial Labor
Types of strollers called ‘running strollers’ exist to make it possible to bring your toddlers along for your run but try it with two four-year old, 38 lb young ones, against the wind, and up enough hills and you’ll quickly lose steam. [Andrew Clink]’s and his wife’s solution? Modify the stroller to be a self-powered roadrunner.
[Andrew]’s hackaday.io build logs are detailed, including design, calculations, schematics, 3D printing files, fails and retries, and more. Power is provided by a bank of lithium-ion batteries that drive a brushless motor. The motor turns the stroller’s front wheel using a toothed belt around …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Powered Running Stroller Keeps You Running
So you’ve had your first child. Congratulations; your life will never be the same again. [Dusan] was noticing how the introduction of his children into his life altered it by giving him less time for his hobbies in his home laboratory, and decided to incorporate his children into his hacks. The first one to roll out of his lab is a remote-controlled baby stroller.
After some engineering-style measurements (lots of rounding and estimating), [Dusan] found two motors to drive each of the back wheels on a custom stroller frame. He created a set of wooden gears to transfer power from …read more
