I don't know, lol....

thatle be sweet when its done......check out my project in the micro flight section...


maybe try plasticwrap for the skirt?

I always thought one of those long thin clown balloons would make a great skirt. Never sat down and tried a Hovercraft, but after looking at some of those one-person hovercraft's online people made in their garage, I've been dying to try a micro hover.

Here's how you can make a homemade hovercraft. If anything, it might give people ideas on how to make a micro one. Just thought this was interesting. http://www.amasci.com/amateur/hovercft.html

If I'm correct, you need extra upward thrust to compensate for the displacement of water underneath the skirt. On land the ground stays still, but on water the water gets blown away from the underside of the hovercraft so you -might- need the extra oomph to keep it afloat.

Actually, I think I could wire this to run right! If you put the hover motor on all the time (switch on the hover craft). Then, get 2 of the same RPM motors, preferably the highest RPM you can get (they must be the same, or else it'll steer by itself). Splice the motor wires. Solder them onto the motors. Now here's the ingenious steering part: take the steering wires, and wire them to the same 2 motors! When you let go of the forward button, pressing the appropriate steering button will give you tank steering! The steering coils are wired so only positive is triggered, and negative is on all the time. You could do a rudder system, but I just think this is cool!

That definitely a good idea about the steering.

I may have to try one of these.

Someone mentioned that using computer case fan wouldn't work because a small motor couldn't turn it. What you could use though would be a gpu cooling fan because they are much smaller. I think about the right size.

Taco bell has those taco salad thingies in a large sea shell looking shell... they come in a black and clear package... the bottom is the same meat-tray type foam, only it has more of a hover craft shape... less cutting/modding ;) just thought some one might want to goto taco bell and ask for a empty package lol... I had two of them, butsome one tossed them before I could do ne thing with them...