I made a RC hovercraft this morning. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for about 20 years.
It took about an hour.
It’s a green foam tray (free on request from the produce department at the supermarket) with a hole in it, a cut-off plastic cup, a ducted fan/motor from eBay, battery, and RC receiver. And a lot of hot glue.
The bolt and washer are to balance the battery – they’re hot-glued down.
Here it is running. It’s way overpowered – it works best with the throttle at about 5%.
Later I made a skirt out of tape – no pics; it looks about the same, just flies higher by the width of the tape.
I’m glad I got that out of my system – now I can move on to something else.
#1 by Amy Duell on 2013 June 22 - 07:54
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that’s fucking cool
#2 by Poppy Ann on 2014 July 22 - 08:35
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a great simple way of making one, many years i made one but i put a 2.5 cc glow engine on it and arranged two holes in the back deck that i put two 90 deg tubes made out of plastic cups and attached a servo to them and let the servo control direction on a smooth surface i could not keep up with it running i never fitted a throttle to it the engine (it was either flat out or off)
same as you once i had made it that was the end of my wanting to build one,
it was out of my system same as you more pleasure building it than operating it.