Well, this headline is what you might call poetic license in that it needs extra clarification: anyone can build a hovercraft at home, as long as that "anyone" is skilled, hard-working, determined, ...

From the Coke and Mentos fountain makers who found initial fame via Maker Faire and YouTube (more than 150 million views) comes a collection of DIY science projects guaranteed to inspire a love of ...

Sharing a new project begins as plans come together to build and test a personal hovercraft from the ground up. Could this ...

How? Using the air from the balloon! When the air from the balloon was released out of the pop-up bottle top, it shot out and was forced against the flat surface the CD was sitting on. With nowhere to ...

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First cut a 1.2-metre-diameter circle from out of the 2cm-thick plywood. Put your leaf blower -- it doesn't matter if it's petrol or electric, it's up to you -- in the middle and then figure out where ...

1) Check your CD to make sure that the bottom is completely flat. Some CD’s have a very small raised rim near the center that can cause your CD hovercraft not to work as well and should be carefully ...

Using a bicycle, a plastic bag, a fan and pieces of wood, some Centennial High School students have made a human-powered Hovercraft that can carry as many as five passengers a foot above the ground.

Hovercrafts have the distinct advantage of being just as comfortable on water as they are on land, but usually at the cost of a pretty ugly and utilitarian design. So the engineers at Mercier-Jones ...