Hello All,
So joining this forum is one of many educational avenues I’ve been exploring for my various creative and inventive projects. A little background will probably help:
Having an aviation family, I’m very accustomed to composites. Actually my grandfather was building a fiberglass 4 seat “kit plane” and was using terrible safety procedures. Guess what? He burned down the entire shop and really set the family back quite a bit.
I wasn’t into planes, mostly cars. Like any boy growing up during the 80s and 90s, the Lamborghini Countach was the most awesome thing ever. From one eye catching car to basically cramming my head with as much car information as I could, I’m pretty well versed and would call myself an enthusiast. Because of this, I’ve recently been addicted to watching How It’s Made: Dream Cars to learn every scrap of information I can from those programs.
My initial project is to convert a child’s ride on car to gas powered and easily able to accommodate an adult rider. I intend to do this through extensive work planning structural supports of several kinds. Overall I’d like to maintain the “stock” outward appearance, but have no qualms about cutting and re-making parts of the car to achieve my goal. There are numerous highly customized Power Wheels cars that have gone down this path, so I’ve got some great inspiration! Here’s a look at the little Lambo:
Other than the go kart project, I do have several composite-driven inventions that are likely only possible because of the innovations in the materials. As I said, I do have a background relationship with aviation, and honestly, I’m a speed junkie so I do like to discover new things. I almost always have 3-5 ideas brewing.
Without going into too much detail (due to not having any physical models yet to protect my IP) I can say that intersecting materials technology (CF), small computing ability (Raspberry Pi), and modern wing design could lead to the coolest personal flight device ever created. Like everybody will want one kind of awesome, but risky enough that to get it going means testing with life sized dummies. If the principles of flight work in this device, then that can lead to a commercial application to enhance efficiency that I can patent, sell as a retrofit, then finally never have to go to a “real job” ever again, and just keep on being an inventor in my garage.
Thanks for taking the time to read and I look forward to participating in the community, learning how to do things right, and to share my own experiences.
Cheers!
6StringMercenary