It’s been a while since I last posted anything here…been very busy with design projects and studio renos.  Just got a call from the owner of NewdaVincis.com a couple of days ago with a  request to send a couple of Skyak Model 3 units to a TV producer in Quebec that has expressed an interest in featuring Skyaak on an upcoming special that will highlight some of their favorite products from NewdaVincis. Considering that NewdaVincis currently hosts about 630 different products and the producer... Read Full Story

Just in the past month, our little village of Manitou Beach in East Central Saskatchewan has undergone a fairly radical transformation. Three guys have moved here and taken up residence directly across from the main entrance to the Manitou Springs Mineral Spa. Readers of this blog will remember that I mentioned in www.skyaak.blogspot.com that “something’s brewing at Manitou Beach“. Little did I know when I wrote that post just how potent and exciting the new energy would be! Sharon and I... Read Full Story

My good buddies Dylan and Jesse Cook popped in yesterday for a quick visit. Jesse has a friend in the city that wants a Skyaak Model 3 so he came out to grab a unit from the source. The above shows the package that Jesse picked up. The flat design makes the Model 3 easy to carry around and also makes it possible to ship anywhere in the world. While Dylan and Jesse were here they said sure, they would be happy to test out the DIY ‘deuce’, no problem. Dylan also mentioned that he would pass... Read Full Story

I sent a Skyaak Model 3 (the Expert version) to William Gurstelle, best-selling Minneapolis-based author of “Notes from the Technology Underground” and “Whoosh, Boom, Splat” a while ago. Not only did Bill take the time to build and fly his Skyaak, he also wrote this review of his experience with his new toy! Bill is the guy who first coined the expression “Skyaak- Canada’s Answer to the Frisbee”. Way cool. He says Skyaak is “incredibly cool” and also claims that Skyaak has “more cachet than... Read Full Story

I sent a Skyaak Model 3 (the Expert version) to William Gurstelle, best-selling Minneapolis-based author of “Notes from the Technology Underground” and “Whoosh, Boom, Splat” a while ago. Not only did Bill take the time to build and fly his Skyaak, he also wrote this review of his experience with his new toy! Bill is the guy who first coined the expression “Skyaak- Canada’s Answer to the Frisbee”. Way cool. He says Skyaak is “incredibly cool” and also claims that Skyaak has “more cachet than... Read Full Story

Here’s a working draft of the banner that is coming soon, once we cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s. You can get a sneak peek at the animated version but just remember, it’s not an active link quite yet. Let us know how you like it so far…any feedback would be taken seriously. Read Full Story

Over the past couple of years Skyaak has covered a lot of ground, been to a lot of places and has landed in lots of folks’ hands. I’ve put together a fairly comprehensive photo album that chronicles the trajectory of the Skyaak project from its very beginnings up to the present. Although our focus has been on developing the DIY ‘deuce’ for the past couple of months, I wanted to remind our readers that there is much more to this line than the paper version, cool as that is. The photo album is... Read Full Story

Had a nice long chat with Fred last night. It was very inspiring. And informative. Everything is different now that Fred (and a few other notable people as well…) is making such a big contribution in so many ways to the R&D of the DIY ‘deuce’ project. We are now fine-tuning it so that we can send out a little batch of testers to some of our friends, colleagues, and friends’ and colleagues’ kids. Fred suggests that I get a bunch of my friends together here at the Beach in the next little... Read Full Story

Had a nice long chat with Fred last night. It was very inspiring. And informative. Everything is different now that Fred (and a few other notable people as well…) is making such a big contribution in so many ways to the R&D of the DIY ‘deuce’ project. We are now fine-tuning it so that we can send out a little batch of testers to some of our friends, colleagues, and friends’ and colleagues’ kids. Fred suggests that I get a bunch of my friends together here at the Beach in the next little... Read Full Story

When you end up staring at the 2-page download that features the new Skyaak DIY ‘deuce’, you might think it appears incomprehensible at first. How, you will likely ask yourself, does such a strange-looking diagram end up getting formed into a ‘ring-ring’ glider? I’d be the first to admit that it is quite counter-intuitive at first glance. Most people really find it quite confusing and just plain weird at first. It’s hard to figure out how to put it together at first because it is just such... Read Full Story