The “Unique Monster” is a strange car mod that puts monster truck tires onto the Smart car, which is known as one of the smallest, most fuel efficient cars around. We like how this maker decided to turn this unassuming car into a road warrior and hope they don’t have any evil motives for this […]
The “Spiral Sunrise” by Esther Polak visualizes the sun’s rising and setting through a solar-powered robot that is tethered to a tree and moves in circular rings around the tree. The robot carries an open sandglass so that when it moves, it draws a line of sand and the thickness of the line depends on […]
If you’ve never seen the Craftmanship Museum, either virtually or in person, prepare to have your geeky socks blown off. This video provides a tour of this astounding “model engineering” museum and workspace in Vista, California. This is really machining as an artform. Their “virtual museum” has an extensive online collection. Prepare to get lost […]
Photograph by Noah Weinstein Teen firebug Billy Gordon knew what to do when he saw matches on sale at the supermarket. Buy 20,000 of them. And when he got them home? Use them to build one gigantic, strike-anywhere match. He measured an ordinary 2¼-inch kitchen match with digital calipers, then scaled it up precisely to […]
Photograph by Albert W. Starkweather It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … boat? Technically, it’s a planeboat. And to Dave Drimmer of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the live-aboard craft was home for 20 years. The vessel has a colorful history. Its name, Cosmic Muffin, comes from singer Jimmy Buffett, who caught a glimpse of […]
Photograph by Studio M, Tom McInvaille Stacey Lee Webber likes her work long, repetitive, and painstaking. Just look at the life-sized carpenter’s tools she silver-soldered out of pennies. Only pre-1982 coins — minted from 95% copper — would survive her acetylene torch’s high heat, so Webber spent hours flipping and sorting bucketfuls of mixed years. […]
Photograph by David Olsen Down a lonely stretch of Sonoran desert highway south of Tucson, Ariz., lies the washboarded pull-off for Interstellar Light Applications. Visitors don’t have to wait for the dust to settle to lay eyes on ILA’s majestic moonlight collector, towering 6 stories high and 60 feet across, and weighing in at a […]
