{"600988":{"#nid":"600988","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Soup Up a Barbie Jeep","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECustom motorized transport is common at Georgia Tech, but Dustin Sloan and Trenton Charlson recently turned heads on campus while zooming around in a nostalgic adaptation of a 1990s classic kid\u0026rsquo;s vehicle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We like the idea of taking children\u0026rsquo;s toys and upgrading them with a more powerful means of propulsion,\u0026rdquo; said Sloan, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn April of 2017, the duo affixed a chainsaw motor to a tricycle. A video that documented the process and was posted on Sloan\u0026rsquo;s YouTube account has been viewed more than 950,000 times. In December, Sloan and Charlson unveiled their latest project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;After building the chainsaw trike and wanting to build a go-cart, we felt that a Power Wheels Barbie Jeep was the next logical step,\u0026rdquo; said Sloan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe biggest challenge in modifying the Barbie Jeep was fitting everything inside the plastic casing. Sloan and Charlson equipped the vehicle, meant for kids ages 3 and up, with a full-sized engine and steel frame as well as mechanical components for steering, a gas pedal and hydraulic brakes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt top speed, the Barbie Jeep can hit 30 miles per hour.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s very touchy on the gas, braking and steering, but gives a good deal of control,\u0026rdquo; said Sloan. \u0026ldquo;You can even drift in it and power slide.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Barbie Jeep was designed and constructed at the RoboJackets shop space. Sloan and Charlson are members of the RoboJackets, but neither had a history with automechanics prior to coming to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I spent high school learning mechanical design and machining from my involvement in our robotics team,\u0026rdquo; said Charlson, a third-year aerospace engineering student. \u0026ldquo;When I got to Georgia Tech, I joined the RoboJackets Battlebots team and continued learning these skills.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Being around a bunch of people passionate who are about technology and engineering at Tech really fosters learning and spawns projects like the Jeep.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor their next project, Sloan and Charlson are developing a pulsejet engine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve got to figure out what we want to put it on,\u0026rdquo; said Sloan. \u0026ldquo;We have an idea.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Six-horsepower motor from a log splitter takes this car to the next level"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new steering system, custom tires, and hydraulic brakes compliment this modified Barbie Jeep that can top out at 30 miles per hour.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"They modified the Power Wheels vehicle With a six-horsepower log splitter engine"}],"uid":"28058","created_gmt":"2018-01-18 19:17:05","changed_gmt":"2018-01-18 21:37:09","author":"Steven Norris","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600992":{"id":"600992","type":"image","title":"Barbie Jeep Beast Mode ","body":null,"created":"1516303392","gmt_created":"2018-01-18 19:23:12","changed":"1516303392","gmt_changed":"2018-01-18 19:23:12","alt":"Students Amp Up a Power Wheels Barbie Jeep ","file":{"fid":"229072","name":"Screen Shot 2018-01-18 at 2.20.49 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202018-01-18%20at%202.20.49%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202018-01-18%20at%202.20.49%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1253957,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202018-01-18%20at%202.20.49%20PM.png?itok=AuvOa3oT"}}},"media_ids":["600992"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DolF0v0FNYs","title":"Georgia Tech Students Make Chainsaw-Powered Tricycle "}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"246","name":"Georgia Institute of Technology"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"11489","name":"RoboJackets"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"176792","name":"barbie jeep"},{"id":"176793","name":"awesome video"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrice Zimmerman\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSocial Media Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bzimmerman@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}