Student Charles Guan's latest creation, Fankart! is a propeller-powered shopping cart. Photo: www.etotheipiplusone.net
Remember LOLrioKART? Around this time last year, student Charles Guan ’11 sparked a brief Internet sensation when he created a test platform for electric vehicle controller development using a shopping cart and a set of large nickel cadmium batteries (and some other things like a motor, controller, and four-channel surround sound music system). Video of his extreme grocery carting went viral and got featured in Gizmodo, Engadget, Popular Science, among other publications.
Well, not surprisingly, Guan is back–and this time he’s outfitted a standard grocery cart with a ducted fan thruster for the purpose of (in his words) having “the biggest EDF array on campus.” After all, he goes on to say, “I can’t work without a false sense of competition and engineering machismo.”
Guan calls his creation Fankart!, and you can read all about it on his website (including a detailed account of his build process).Video of LOLrioKART and Fankart! posted below.
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Well I am glad to see this demonstration of the value of an MIT education.
I feel so much better about my diploma.
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HELL YEAH THIS IS WHAT I CAME FOR
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