Science YouTuber creates solar-powered stand-up paddle board
- 8 years ago
A cool video of a science YouTuber demonstrating how he made a solar-powered stand-up paddle board from bits and pieces he found around his garden.
The footage, filmed at the weekend in New South Wales, Australia for the YouTube channel Make Science Fun, shows Jacob Strickling building the board out of an old wind surfing sailboard, bits of timber, screws, an electric outboard from an old toy, a kids scooter, a pool net, clothesline, old wiring and some solar panels.
His children then test the paddle board in the Terrigal Lagoon, near Sydney, and it appears to work perfectly.
He later wrote online: "The SUP was a real hit with the kids and they played on it until the sun went down and the motor wouldn't run!"
The footage, filmed at the weekend in New South Wales, Australia for the YouTube channel Make Science Fun, shows Jacob Strickling building the board out of an old wind surfing sailboard, bits of timber, screws, an electric outboard from an old toy, a kids scooter, a pool net, clothesline, old wiring and some solar panels.
His children then test the paddle board in the Terrigal Lagoon, near Sydney, and it appears to work perfectly.
He later wrote online: "The SUP was a real hit with the kids and they played on it until the sun went down and the motor wouldn't run!"