Big Bird: An RC Hovercraft

PROJECT BACKGROUND

Olin offers a Principles of Engineering course that exposes students to an open-ended team project of their own design that includes significant mechanical and electronic components.  My team chose to build a remote-control hovercraft on a 2 to 3 foot scale.  We had tons of fun on this project, which we code named "Big Bird".

COLLABORATORS


Bradley Powers '10
Pam Darvirris '10
Zack Coburn '10
Jeff Moore '10

OFFICIAL PROJECT WEBSITE

Brad published our project as an instructable.  Very cool.


http://www.instructables.com/id/Autonomous-wirelessly-controlled-hovercraft/


VIDEO DEMO

Big Bird Hovercraft: Snow Test