Need to spice up your greenhouse? Start a Crash Bonsai garden! CrashBonsai is the creation of John Rooney, an artist who is torn between the desire to create and destroy. Recently, he has been making bonsai plants, and combining them with model cars and trucks which he has creatively smashed and melted, to create “CrashBonsai,” […]
Maybe you like Neil Young’s music. You might have heard about his opinions, but how about his car? Neil got his hands on one of the heaviest production automobiles, a Lincoln Continental Mark IV convertible, and has set out to make it into a more earth friendly transportation alternative. The car will be entered into […]
Gareth blogged about Sashimi Tabernacle Choir a while back; seeing it in Austin was wonderful! I don’t know what it says about me that, if I had the time, I could have watched this ridiculous thing for an hour, but it made me deliriously happy. My video doesn’t do it justice – if you ever […]
This was one of the most charming projects I saw at Maker Faire, Nyssa’s little micro RC jousters. Such a simple idea, a great project for kids, and one of those things that starts you thinking about other things to do with your tiny RC cars. You could make lots of papercraft skins, have a […]
Whoa. A miniature V12 engine for BIG R/C vehicles. The home-made motor is a valve-operated 12 cylinder 4 stroke engine with two low operated camshafts with oil lubrication and air cooling. The builder is hoping to eventually offer the engine as a kit. V12 RC-Engine [Via Hacked Gadgets]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Proximacentuari presents the gorgeous result of what must have been an amazing labor of love – This is the final result of 15 months and at least 800 hours of work in the garage. This is not counting time spent designing, ordering parts, negotiating prices, etc. The car was […]
Daniel Deutsch built this crazy-accurate replica of Luke Skywalker’s beat-up XP-34 landspeeder – We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is the same size as the original, and can travel several miles […]
