Name: This tiny hovercraft went viral.
Uploaded: 2026-01-21T16:57:54.000Z
Duration: 6 min 3 s
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A few weeks ago, I saw a clip of a Japanese inventor who has been running his own micro hovercraft laboratory for years.

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So I asked my local producer in Japan to get in touch and ask, while I'm in the country, can I please meet the inventor?

Can I see the hovercraft and maybe have a go flying it?

So now we've taken the bullet train to Tsubame City, two hours north of Tokyo, and

we're going to meet Hideasu Ito at the local sports centre.

Now, I do have a little bit of experience with hovercraft, but

this is one person's homemade vehicle, so I'm going to be careful not to break it.

More than 10 years ago, I found somewhere that was selling really cheap leaf blowers.

I bought one even though I really didn't have any use for it.

Then a few years later, I found that someone had made a hovercraft using a similar leaf blower.

At first I was just interested to see if my hovercraft would actually work.

But as time went on, I started to come up with more and more ideas.

Like let's make a smaller one, let's make it electric powered, let's make something that children can ride on.

Or let's make something you can ride standing up.

Each of those concepts has its own unique charm that I found as I worked on bringing each of them to life.

I buy common materials like lumber from home improvement stores.

I also use bicycle parts and components from radio controlled cars and I usually buy those online.

now I also use a 3D printer and I can also source a lot of small specific parts from China.

I actively try to use resources like that.

I'm making hovercraft using just my hands and simple tools.

So if someone out there wants to try and make a Hovercraft 2, it's definitely possible.

This clockwise, up and down, about 17 001700.

You know how drones normally have four propellers?

I thought that if I could mimic that, I might be able to create something interesting.

That would mean I'd have to create a space in the center so the pilot could straddle it.

And I thought that might be a design that would work well.

Hearing this is as difficult as any other hovercraft.

You have to push the right button to turn left and the left button to turn right, because that's how things fast.

Okay, so I want to turn the left aside now.

Can I get it to go in the direction I want to?

My camera operator keeps gesturing at me to follow it.

I think the inventor's gone to the bathroom, and he's left me in charge of the hobby.

I appreciate that he trusts me this much, and I'm not sure he should.

When I posted it on Twitter a while ago, the view count just kept going up.

I got a lot of feedback from people who said they found it interesting, but

for me, it's just part of my everyday life.

So I'm actually a bit baffled as to why it's got such a reaction.

So I got to work on Model 9, and I had a really simple idea.

Of course, I knew before building it that it'd be unstable, but

now that I've actually made it, somehow it works.

It's like I've made a cross between a car and a motorcycle.

As for the future, well, I haven't thought enough about this plan yet, but

I want to try and make hovercrafts that you can wear on your feet.

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