Make:

• Bring back the airships!
• The Toyota station wagon "recreational vehicle" that never happened
• Guitar-boat
• Mask tells others which subway stop you need to get off and prompts them to wake you up
• Electric motorcycle will get you there to build another one
• Corvette morphs into the Bat-mobile

according to the forum they're still working on the docs and models, and aren't ready with the open source aspect yet.

check out OScar too

http://www.theoscarproject.org/index.php

Interesting idea, but coming from some experience in the auto industry I just don't see how this will ever go anywhere (pun intended).

An "open source" car is just so beyond the capabilities and desire of 99+% of the populace.

Did they have to make it look like a penguin?

BrK: When I took welding in high school we built a couple roadsters for customers - and we were just a bunch of goofball teenagers having fun making sparks. We started by building the frames then worked our way out. It's pretty do-able when you have a knowledgeable person for guidance, shop, materials, and a parts car to get measurements and the difficult to fabricate bits from.

My Suggestion? Let the kids conduct guided experiments with already existing (taxpayer funded) facilities. Make the students accurately document their findings and distribute the findings over the Internet. trebuchet03's video on mixing polyester resin is an example of how documentation can be fairly painless and doesn't have to be in book form.

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