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Make Your Own R/C Hovercraft Out of Old Junk
Posted by Sean Fallon at 8:40 AM on August 19, 2008
My guess is that most of the guys out there would love their own R/C hovercraft, but the bottom line is that not everyone can afford a fancy commercial version. Well, if you have some junk lying around the house, some time on your hands, and you don't mind a hovercraft that is butt friggin' ugly, you can build your own R/C model for under US$50 (depending on what kind of junk you have lying around) and the instructions from Project Hovercraft.
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DeusExMach
Posted 9:15 AM 19/8/08
wow... One typhoon for sale on eBay... needs some work, but you can snag it for $20. Go get it!
DeusExMach
Groggy Banana
Posted 9:12 AM 19/8/08
I want to strap one of these babies to it
[gizmodo.com]
paint it brown
and call it LAHT.
Groggy Banana
DeusExMach
Posted 9:06 AM 19/8/08
Or... and I'm just spit-ballin' here... buy a Tyco Typhoon off of eBay!
DeusExMach
Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity
Posted 9:05 AM 19/8/08
@VirreVojj: Can't. This is purely Zune controlled. Hey, it has to be good for something, right?
Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity
VirreVojj
Posted 8:50 AM 19/8/08
So how do I make it so that I can steer it using my iPhone?
VirreVojj
hu_hu_cool
Posted 9:39 AM 19/8/08
I made one of those in middle school. Aint too hard to make.
hu_hu_cool
cjdshaw
Posted 9:55 AM 19/8/08
Over here in the UK, you can buy an commercial RC hovercraft for less than $50 equivalent.
cjdshaw
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
Posted 11:33 AM 19/8/08
Now I want to see who's nutty enough to make one large enough to ride.
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
roflwaffles
Posted 1:03 PM 19/8/08
I have the old tyco one, wonder how they compare.
roflwaffles
grok666
Posted 1:38 PM 19/8/08
@Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish:
It was done on Junkyard Wars... One of them worked pretty good until the skirt got ripped, then the slower one won the race.
grok666
CSX321
Posted 1:19 AM 20/8/08
Neat. I have enough junk to make one of those. My son had a cheap RC 'copter that lost it's rotor blades in a crash. I kept the all the other bits thinking they might be good for something. This looks like it could be it!
CSX321
rsjames
Posted 3:07 AM 20/8/08
@grok666:
Junkyard Wars! Man I loved that show....
rsjames
Jhwk
Posted 8:42 AM 19/8/08
SWEET! I used to have a hovercraft in 1968, but it was corded. Time to find and electronics junk pile...
Jhwk