Vacuum Forming In the Movies: Flix Fx

Marc Pollack of Flix FX, Inc in North Hollywood, CA has been producing special effects/props for use in TV, commercials, movies, events and the music industry for the past 21 years. They’ve branched out to include a new patent pending process that will expand the...

Cal Poly’s 3000 MPG Supermileage Car

George Leone, Student Project Facilitator at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, sent us pictures of a fascinating project one of the student teams is undertaking. Cal Poly students are designing a “Supermileage” car to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon as...

Terps Racing – 2012 Racecar Design

The University of Maryland’s Formula SAE team is a world ranked collegiate design group. Every year they design, build and compete an open-wheeled racecar. Competition includes almost 1000 different schools from all around the world, the University of Maryland...

Rockets and Eggs – 1000 Feet in the air

We received a call from Luke DeLisio, an Aeronautical Engineering student at Purdue University, inquiring about the possibility of a Precision Board Plus donation for a very interesting project they were undertaking. Their mission: To design, assemble and successfully...

UAV Project – Update

As students at Colorado State University continue with this amazing project, they have been posting many pictures and videos of the UAV progress. See all the updates, including a video of the very first test flight here: http://www.facebook.com/larvauav?sk=wall and...
UAV Project – Colorado State University

UAV Project – Colorado State University

LARVA, or Local Area Reconnaissance Visual Assistant is a senior design engineering project undertaken by four highly motivated engineers from Colorado State University. It is an ultra-small UAV being designed for use in cramped urban conditions, using a VTOL System...