Foam Casualty is a blog "Dedicated to building your own foam RC aircraft from scratch." The author is a builder of radio controlled planes made from foam. He uses SketchUp to draw the plans, unfold, and print them to paper. Once printed, the plans are used as templates for cutting the foam.
Here's a flight video of a P51D designed using SketchUp.
Foam Casualty
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Cool #3 - Open Source Stirling Engine
Tom Belpasso is using SketchUp to visualize the configurations of his open-source stirling engine, and blogging about it here.
SketchUp Cool #2
I'm sure many of you have seen the Uno, a unicycle-motorcycle-segway hybrid designed an built by 18 year old Ben J. Poss Gulak? What you might have missed is that it was designed using.. you guessed it, Google SketchUp.
via Motorcycle Mojo Magazine
via Motorcycle Mojo Magazine
Cool SketchUp Uses: Civic EV
New SketchUp user TimK has a blog called "Open Source Civic EV Kit", where he is chronicling his endeavor to create an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a Honda Civic.
Tim recently decided to try SketchUp for drawing up some battery boxes, and posts about it here.
Tim recently decided to try SketchUp for drawing up some battery boxes, and posts about it here.
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