Ready for prime time

Prime time TV shows of the ’60s featured iconic cars. Remember Batman, The Monkees and The Munsters? As I walked around campus, I got thinking about the name of such a show if it were to be based on campus. How about The Good Grocery Cart Driver who would “deliver faster than a speeding bullet”?

I spotted that superhero on campus this week.

A team of mechanical engineering students from the Makerspace Lab built the grocery cart go-kart and were test driving it near Kettering Labs. There are no plans at this time to make a TV show or use it as a grocery delivery vehicle — they just wanted to see if it could be done. And it proved to be a practical experience that involved drawing blueprints, engineering the mechanics, buying the component parts, welding and assembly.

So, the next time you’re crisscrossing campus, pretend you’re on the backlot of a TV set. What do you see? A warm spring day offers many moments to capture images that spark the imagination. (And, if you come up with a good one starring the squirrel, we'd love to read it. Send it to magazine@udayton.edu.)