Epic Real-Life MARIO KART Race with RFID Power Ups

Check out this awesome video of a real-life Mario Kart race. The race is so realistic that players who run over RFID power up bananas get more power transmitted to their go karts. 

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In this episode we rig up four go Karts so we can manipulate the throttle, gas and brakes along with an RFID Item system so we could make a REAL playable version of Mario Kart

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