Accelerate with Snapmaker
Last year, Snapmaker launched our Accelerate with Snapmaker campaign, sponsoring racing teams, partnering with RC car designers, and running our Hot Pursuit Video Contest.
So, what did they make?
Real Car Parts. Model Cars. Automotive Artwork.
Let’s take a look:
Meet the Master
Sponsored Teams
Schumacher CLRT
Snapmaker gifted the team a Snapmaker Artisan Premium, a J1s, and large quantities of TPU, ABS, Nylon, PVA, and other specialized materials to give them everything they need to blaze a trail across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia!
And how’d it go? They took home the Porsche Super Cup and the Carrera Cup France! They also made an appearance at the Macau Grand Prix, where the Snapmaker Team, which gave us the opportunity to meet the team in person. You can watch the video here.
Every single day, Schumacher CLRT uses 3D printed parts on their cars.
3D printing allows Schumacher CLRT to replace some of their heavier metal tools and parts with lightweight alternatives. It lets them produce intricate and unique parts that simply aren’t available from traditional suppliers. The CNC and Laser functions allow for even more capabilities, like making subtactive adjustments to various pieces and adding customizations across the car.
In the photo set below, you can see a wide range of specialized fasteners, adapters, caps, unique tools, custom mounting solutions, and all manner of precision parts specially designed to make the most out of their Porsche 992 GT3 Cup, 992 GT3R and 991 GT+ Rally Cars.
Team Solaris
Team Solaris is a Solar Car Racing team from Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey. Specializing in electronics engineering, the team used the Snapmaker J1s and A250 to build PCB Boards, aerodynamic surfaces, and other specialized parts for their cars. This past fall, they took their S11 Solar Car to South Africa to take part in the Sasol Solar Challenge!
Here we’ll link to Solaris’ Instagram video where they show off how they used the Snapmaker A250 to build custom PCBs. By designing their own electronics hardware, Solaris has maximum control over their cars’ performance, efficiency, and weight.
Here we can see Solaris testing their car in a virtual wind tunnel, which allows them to simulate real world modifications to the car’s body structure. With the new design set up in the digital world, they use their J1s to print the required parts, and then install them!
This is the heart of Maker Culture – thinking, designing, building, and implementing.
And in this video we can see Solaris testing their machines, building models and novelty name plates to celebrate our collaboration!
Everidge Racing
Cassten Everidge took his his heavily modified Chevrolet SS all over the American Midwest in a series of intense stock car races – with the help of the Snapmaker Artisan Premium.
In this video, we can see him using the machine in some of his off-season projects:
Check out more from Cassten on his website, including this story from the Winchester Speedway!
ATTACKER!
ATTACKER! is an EV racing team from Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, making full use of the Snapmaker Artisan Premium’s 3-in-1 capabilities to build custom parts for their racer. This past October, they took their racer to the NIO Cup in Hefei, China.
ATTACKER! used the CNC function to build special mounting brackets for the battery cooling system – while you can special order these custom parts for delivery, it was a lot faster to simply cut them out of aluminum on-site. 3D Printing was used extensively for molds for the car’s air ducts, battery box cover, and other assorted pieces. Finally, Snapmaker’s laser was perfect for building custom PCBs.
Let’s see the car in action here:
RC Cars
Snapmaker is a top choice for RC Hobby enthusiasts, including our friends Hemistorm RC, RCSparks, Soarpix3D, and more!
For Accelerate with Snapmaker, we partenered with Mr. Goodcat to produce this video on the Koenigsegg Jesko:
You can find the Car Body here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/porsche-911-992-gt3-rc-car
And the RC Car Chassis here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4892947
Also, we highly recommend watching Mr. Goodcat’s How To Video that he put together for another project on a Porsche 911:
And for an example of some of the amazing (non-RC) Model Cars our friends have built with Snapmaker, check out Duke Doks’ Back to the Future Delorean:
Hot Pursuit!
As part of Accelerate with Snapmaker, we launched a video contest, challenging Snapmakers to build real car parts, automotive artwork, and model cars – with a prize of $911!
You can check out all entries through the playlist here (the embedded video shows only the first entry but Watch on YouTube and you can see the whole list):
Or jump straight into the winner’s circle:
🏆 Auto Art Award: @ Whiskyclubcanada
🏆 Model Car Winner: @ BerndMichalak
🏆 Real Car Part Winner: @ Alin_3196
Stay Tuned for Accelerate with Snapmaker 2025!
Sincerely,
The Snapmaker Pit Crew
