Make Your Own GPV (Grocery Powered Vehicle)

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This weekend, make your own GPV. Grocery Powered Vehicles are contraptions that you can make with materials that you can find at your local grocery store. In this podcast, I teach you how to make a simple hovercraft, bearingless motor, and dirigible.

I was inspired by the contraptions on David Williamson's website to construct these GPVs.

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Posted by Bre Pettis | Oct 14, 2006 01:43 AM
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  • Lol, the helium zeppelin disaster was funny! Another good one Bre!

    Posted by: bf5man_ on October 14, 2006 at 8:14 AM

  • Why didn't you just call it balloon-powered gay mobiles.

    Posted by: timbudtwo on October 14, 2006 at 3:09 PM

  • Oh! Oh! Use a mylar helium baloon next time!

    Posted by: brmbrm on October 14, 2006 at 3:41 PM

  • timbudtwo - keep it constructive, k?

    Posted by: philliptorrone on October 14, 2006 at 8:30 PM

  • That wasnt even me. I share this account. Sorry bout it though :).

    Posted by: timbudtwo on October 15, 2006 at 9:06 PM

  • this is really well weird. what happened to the picture in the video?

    Posted by: on December 4, 2007 at 6:35 AM

  • this is interesting. I just wish that I could have been able to see what he did in the video. All that I was able to make out was his voice. Other than that it is preety cool.

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