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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 hovercra
Hoverboard for going over water using 4 giagantic Ryobi leaf-blower engines building on top
of previous article. wow!
Well, here it is. Hoverboard vH2.0. And yes – it has successfully hovered on water (just not with me on it…. Damn it!) I guess I knew Neptune wasn’t looking favourably on my latest build when I felt compelled to don Bermudas rather than ride my creation in sla
These guys sell hoverboard plans you can do-it-yourself to lift 200lb person 1inch off the ground, even in snow!
(if you work for futurehorizons, plz send me a plan, i wanna build one… 🙂 )
They got some other cool plans…
The hoverboard uses high performance hovercraft technology to lift a 200+lb rider 1 inch above the ground. A 6 horsepower 4-stroke gasoline engine spins a multi bladed propeller to force air under the craft. The plans are easy to follo
Okay, yesterday through the instructable, we made a simple hovercraft. Today, we are going to take
it to another level by taking FOUR PC fan coolers and running the FANS at 24VDC instead of the
12V DC rating. I think they are okay up to 30VDC, well, our fans are still running�
Check these guys out, you can build your own hovering plane thingee for about $5200, they got DIY kits for building your hovercraft, hoverwing, etc…etc…
They claim it takes about 2500 hours = about 100 days to make one of these by yourself.
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Here’s Zedomax Hoverboard based on earlier article DIY
I got too excited about the DIY I had to make one. So I just hacked out my computer 12V fan
and got my leftover over Pizza Hut paper dish and wala!
The only problem I encountered was that the battery was too heavy, so when I tested w/ a
DC power supply instead, I could get it to hover over my desk about 1mm…
So, maybe next time, I will try 2 fans…
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