So it's the middle of winter and you need to cool down....

...what else would you do, but build your own electric fan?

This post is from Dad, who decided to show a little project we worked on this past weekend. One of R's favorite places to visit is a surplus shop called the Ax-Man where we can easily spend an hour or two checking out the cool stuff they have on hand. After school this past Friday, we went there to pick up some parts for a project we had been talking about for a couple of weeks. On Saturday we got to work. Here is the result (apologies for the heavy editing - Dad was trying to address everyone's needs at once):



Ours is a modification of the design found here, which also provides a nice set of instructions.

Or you can just buy a kit!

We hope you enjoyed our little demonstration, and that it inspires you to do a little inventing of your own!