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Tight, need to get one of these one day huh?

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Yep, you CAN make a hovercraft during your lunch break now. Just follow the directions!

I built a working hovercraft using cardboard and a shop vacuum in 30 minutes.

You can build a hovercraft quickly and easily using cardboard, duct tape, and a vacuum. There are excellent instructions available on the Internet. I adapted these standard instructions by substituting cardboard for plywood. In fact you build a hovercraft out of most anything that’s more or less airtight.

You can ride your hovercraft outside by using a gas powered leaf blower instead of a vacuum. Don’t use a leaf blower indoors because they are very loud and create smoke. One problem you will encounter outside is that there are few flat surfaces. Tennis courts work well. If you try to ride on the road you will quickly end up in the ditch since roads have a convex surface that keeps rainwater from building up.

Well… you CAN make an alarm system in 3 minutes too… (That means you can make 10 alarm systems for the time it takes to make 1 hovercraft…)

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Wow, check out this awesome homemade balancing skateboard. As a skateboarder myself, this is way too cool…

It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input other than the movement of your body mass. Leaning forwards and backwards controls the velocity and moving your weight from heal to toe controls the turn radius. It’s easy and very intuitive to ride.

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Wow, I wish this was real…

Here’s hoverbike, which is basically a mix of a hoverboard and segway.
Actually we have been developing our own too. Well we just got
our prototype started so… we will see about the next Zedomax Hoverbike…
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Check out these guys smashing on their new shovercrafts! Awesome DIY on how to make one too.

Get your motors running, put your safety helmet, ear protection and safety glasses on, steady your fire extinguishers and prop open your first aid kit… Now you’re ready for he ultimate in diy sports - Shovercraft! Combining all the thrills of a personal hovercraft with the targeting challenges of shuffleboard, shovercraft is the ultimate in frictionless fun!

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Here’s a look back at some of our cool and idiotic DIYs. Maybe you can digg up some ideas for the winter holidays:

OR you can goto this link to view in pictures:

(Come to think of it, we could probably hack some of our DIYs together and make a Nintendo Wii wireless controller)

• Garrett’s DIY - Upcoming Boe-Bot Hacks - Remote Controlled Insect
• Garrett’s DIY - Home Automation Project - Part One: Real-Time Clock and Calendar
• DIY - Use the golf POV for your next Ad, here’s a Nike Swoosh
• Zedomax DIY118 - HOWTO Make a Golf Club POV training aid!
• Garrett’s DIY #1 - Persistence of Vision Device
• Zedomax DIY117 - HOWTO Make a Digital Drawing Board with an old joystick in 5 minutes!
• Zedomax DIY 116- Halloween HOWTO make a talking pumpkin basket!
• Halloween Pitchfork Program Update - Flaming Trident
• DIY Circuit - Wireless Microphone transmits to FM frequency
• Zedomax DIY 115- HOWTO establish serial connection with PCs bluetooth 2.0 with ACODE-300
• Zedomax DIY 114- Halloween HOWTO make a Pitchfork LED!
• Zedomax DIY 113 - Build a bluetooth controlled Holloween Hovercraft party light!
• Zedomax DIY 112 - Zedomax Hovercraft version 2 - Asteroid!
• Zedomax DIY - Hoverboard tried??
• DIY - Make User Interface in 5 Minutes!
• DIY - Make a Ethernet Temperature Monitor
• DIY - Build a digital thermometer in 1 minute!
• DIY - Make an alarm system in 3 minutes! (Part II - Add a motion sensor)
• DIY - Make a wall clock from scratch!
• DIY - Make a computer controlled party light in 90 seconds!
• DIY - Make a touch screen sprinkler system for your lawn and garden