I love Cory Doctorowโs droll description of this creation almost as much as I love the thing itself:
This handy gentleman has built an (arguably ill-conceived, but nevertheless impressive) rifle-cum-slingshot that fires machetes, should you find yourself with the need to fire machetes.
The handy gentleman in question is YouTuber Jรถrg Sprave, slingshot enthusiast par excellence. He blogs about it here. [via Boing Boing]
It took this crew the short span of two weeks to “fly the house” in this National Geographic project to create a real life version of the house in Pixar’s Up— lifted into the sky by balloons. “The real Up! Scientists recreate floating house from Pixar movie… and prove it really CAN fly” at dailymail: […]
A Burning Man project from 2007, the giant Settlers of Catan game now appears at various conventions and festivals.
“His works look like randomly-generated parts for high-performance machines that don’t work in our universe.”
That was written in 2009. Rog has an impressive collection of Karsten steam engines, most of which seem to be based on the aeolipile. Gintschel-Modelbau now has a German-language website, but Rog’s page shows many older models not included there.
My pal Alan Dove has thoughtfully suggested that these guys might’ve done better to build themselves a trebuchet.
When I was a kid, I had a copy of dog-eared copy of Shep Paine’s How to Build Dioramas that I carried almost everywhere and spent countless blissful hours poring over and dreaming about.
