Building a Toy Hovercraft

by Micah
(Australia)

I learnt how to build a hovercraft from a website called supercharged science. I love building things, I thought it would be pretty cool having a home made hovercraft.

You need things like: wood skewer, popsicle sticks, 2 3V DC motors, a 9V battery, propellers and more.
Look on the website and find out.


The hovercraft is very light. I needed to go to the butcher to get a large foam tray. When I turn it on, it makes quite a lot of noise and it hovers and goes forward.

At first I did not have the right size cup and so it slid across the ground and it was like it was drifting in circles.

Here is a video of the hovercraft gliding along our wooden floor.

Mum just found out about free access to this excellent series of science videos just for homeschoolers. It includes a guidebook too. Not sure how long it will be for free, but at least for now you can get it here.

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