Fan-Powered Shopping Cart (Of Course) Awhirl at MIT

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.