the Formula · a 1-hour build
Build it. Drive it. Show it.
A car you build with your hands, then drive across the room. Still yours next year.
The numbers, as measured
- 1 hour build timetimed on a first-timer
- 60+ partscut sheets, two motors, rivets
- 2.4 GHz controlforward, back, left, right
- 3 mm cut boardedge left bare, so you can see it
How a build works
Flat sheets in. A car out. Your hands, nothing else.
No glue. No tools. No screen. The parts press together, the joints hold, and the motor goes where you point it.
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The Build. Hands only, mid-press on a joint, sheets and rivets spread on a wooden table, window light.
the Build
Cut sheets on the table. Hands pressing a joint home. About an hour.
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The Made. The finished car on the same table, cut edges and motor visible, the controller beside it.
the Made
Finished, and it shows: the cut edge, the motor, the wiring, all on view.
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The Run. The car mid-drive on a floor, controller in hand at the edge of frame, a real room.
the Run
Then you pick up the controller you also built, and drive.
Between the last 5% of someone else's flat-pack and an ₹8,000 weekend workshop, there is nothing.
This is that. A thing you make at your own table in an evening, that works when you are done, and that you can hand to someone and say: I built this.
the Formula
1 hour, timed on a first-timer · 13 mm solid aluminium rivets · 2.4 GHz, forward, back, left, right · Type-C, about 40 minutes a charge
Free shipping across India. 7 days to return it unbuilt. If a part is faulty, we send the part.
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Day 30. A living room, evening. The car on a shelf between other things. A hand reaching for the controller, another hand being offered it. No faces.
Day 30
Someone comes over, sees it, asks. You hand them the controller.
It sits on the shelf, and it gets driven. It charges from the same cable as your phone, so it is never dead when that happens.
Between drives it is a thing worth looking at. The motor, the servo, the wiring, the cut edges: it looks assembled, because it is.
The founder's hands at a workbench, pressing a joint on a half-built car. Hands only, window light, Pune.
From the founder
We build these ourselves first.
Every number on this site is one we measured on a real build by someone who had never done it. If a part breaks, we send you the part. If a build takes longer than we said, we change what we said.
Yash Thombare, Pune
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