Great Brisbane Duck Race - Project Blackbird

Well, it's that time of year again - the Great Brisbane Duck Race has rolled around and as usual, we've entered a team.  We're still in the planning stages for the moment but we've got some good ideas and a direction to move in, so more details to come when we have them.

For the mean time, some reflections on last year.  We learnt a lot, and more importantly, saw what the competition was like - other teams saw perfectly fit to buy a high-powered RC boat off the shelf and tape their duck to it.  Contrasted against that we designed and built our duck from scratch, we felt quite ripped off, but we learned from our mistakes.  While I'm still not prepared to buy an off the shelf solution, it became apparent that in a field where people are sticking their ducks on boats and not just propelling them, so too must we augment our duck's water characteristics in order to overcome this disadvantage.

We're still building it from the ground up, but we'll be taking it more seriously this year.  These aren't your dad's ducks, these are energy ducks.  Turbo ducks.

Stay tuned..