The result is a surprisingly fast and furious (and dangerous-looking) air sled (think: swamp boat for the snow). As I sit here in my Virginia home office and watch snow pouring down, this looks like something I’d rather be doing (at least after a safety cage gets added to that prop).
If you haven’t seen Peter’s YouTube channel yet, it’s a must-subscribe. He builds amazing (human-piloted) planes and drones, flying game chairs, flame-throwing robots, amphibious vehicles, and all sorts of other ambitious and insane contraptions.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
