Look , I ’m all forextreme sports(and general borderline - stupidshenanigansmasquerading as sports ) . But I think I ’d in all probability draw the line at a homemade , 3 - D print special K - powered snowboard .
The build is startlingly ( worryingly ? ) simple : Jude Gomilla , the wannabe Mythbuster behind the project , got cargo area of an electric ducted fan with 22lbs of thrust , Gorilla - glue it to a 3 - vitamin D printed saddle horse , and then Gorilla - glued that to his circuit board .
Hook up an galvanizing speed controller , a rechargeable barrage fire he probably line up in a dumpster , and you ’re all set . Gomilla reckons he can hit 15 mph on the flats — not too ratty — but the 4000mAh battery run monotonous in four minutes at full throttle .
It says a lot about the current state of DIYing ( and the net ) that this is not , in fact , the first jet - power snowboard concept to come float across YouTube . Last year ’s versionused a set of four electric turbines , but attach to a bar rather than the actual snowboard . I ’m not certain which conception is better , per se — some relative examination and impoverished bones will probably need to happen to find out that — but have the same harebrained qualities . ( And just a midget sexually transmitted disease of awesome . )
In either case , if you ’ve read this as more of a how - to than an insurance call form waiting to happen , you canhead over to Gomilla ’s sitefor a full rundown of the physique process . [ Jude Gomilla ]
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