<![CDATA[Gizmodo: lolriokart]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: lolriokart]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/lolriokart http://gizmodo.com/tag/lolriokart <![CDATA[MIT Students Build a Speedy Go-Kart Out of a Shopping Cart]]> When you were in college, you spent your free time drinking tallboys of Bud Ice and playing Mario Kart 64 until 5am. These MIT students, on the other hand, built a shopping cart go-kart cart and dubbed it the LOLriokart.

The LOLrioKart consists of a big stack of NiCd aircraft batteries and a 15hp brushless motor rigged up to an old shopping cart with upgraded wheels. As you can see by the video, it travels at a pretty good clip, up to 45MPH. And you've got to assume that in Cambridge, seeing a motorized shopping cart with a nerd inside tooling around on the street isn't all that shocking.

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