A Drill-Powered Skateboard Is the Silliest Way to Get Around Town

Boosted board — those snazzy electric longboards — are in in high spirits demand , and they ’re expensive . Fully floor out , one of these is going to run $ 1,600 . And they wo n’t ship until late July at the absolute early . There ’s an obvious solution — but it ’s not easily embarrassed .

Igor fromInspire To Makerigged up some skateboard wheel to accept a compromising recitation bit extender . campaign the whole thing off a portable electric recitation , it ’s a sanely close facsimile to the slick ( and some might say , overpriced ) Boosted board . Without owning a drill or any other part of this cuckoo form , it still come out to less than $ 500 . Chump change ! Although you ’ll also be the person zipping around while hold a drill and generally looking kind of corny .

Because most of the riding footage is race up it ’s concentrated to tell on the button how fast this DIY electric skateboard is capable of travel . Nor is it disclosed how long a drill battery will last in this capacity . Either way , it ’s a clever solution to one of capitalism ’s many bottlenecks .