The neatness factor of this is off the scale! Looks simple enough to build and not all that un safe. Should be able to braze with it but you might need a bunch of flux. I need to get my work bench set up again…
The Geobat
Looks like a workable design, there are R/C flying models of it and they act pretty stable. The 1/4 scale (5.5 feet) craft is downright impressive, I would very much like to see the full scale version come to market. At the very least as a kit that an experimenter could build on their own. General aviation has taken a big hit in the last few decades due to the rising cost of aircrafts, maintenance, and insurance. Plus I think that many people just don’t get exposure to aviation like they once did. In my fathers day, due to pilots being trained for World War II, the general aviation field entered it’s golden era. My dad dusted crops in North Dakota from his Piper Cub and people were talking about every family owning their own flying car. Now days that is still a dream. I hope the Geobat makes it.
I could even see in the future a group of Geobats preforming acrobatics at air shows. Talk about a show stopper!
Good overall performance envelope combining outstanding Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) performance, (expecting less than 500 ft. ground run) reasonably high cruise speeds (180 – 220 mph depending on power installed and cruise altitude), with eyewatering aerobatic performance. Expect power-off stall speed to be at or below 55 mph with flaps down at nominal gross weight. Excellent forward visibility combined with transparent floor panels creating a helicopter-like cockpit environment. Unique leading edge design feature, transparent leading edges about the forward and rear wings are illuminated with lights (pick your color).
BTW, they have a store if you want to build your own! (Sorry, radio control only)
future, cool, aircraft, experimental, aviation
Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists – Beast Blender
Oooo… the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists have a virtual lab where you can create your very own sideshow attractions. As one who is originaly from those parts, I can say that this must be the product of a disturbed snow bound mind. I love these guys, it’s like I’m back home! You have to check out the gallery images…
Sodarace – Man vs AI
Go see if you can build a… ‘thing’ that is faster than what the computer can come up with. Sometimes being able to add real fast gives you the upper hand. :/
Sodarace is the online olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit.
Optimus No Longer Prime
this looks like a more real world version of the Optimus keyboard. Too bad this version isn’t as amazingly cool looking as the other one, but it would be much easier to build. I figure that it’s a revision A kind of thing, the first versions all look like crap but get the job done. Once it takes off then it will start looking cooler.
The United Keys key-displays keyboard
Your Algae Pal
I though that the living plant key chain doo-dads were weird… Thats nothing, now you can own a little chunk of green algae in a bottle to hang off your phone. The stuff in the bottle is called ‘marimo’. In the wild it will take the shape of a ball as it is moved around in a lake due to waves and curents. Some people use it as decoration in aquariums – I don’t know why, it’s hard enough to keep algae OUT of an aquarium. Anyway, you can now make it part of you keitai if you want to look uber cool.