Nice MAKE! – “Stretching out to the corners of the gymnasium, the indoor roller coaster at Royal Oak Intermediate School appears gargantuan compared to its creators. Twenty-four feet tall at its highest point and occupying 10,000 square feet, the fully-functional ride towers over the 135 eighth-graders who are its designers, builders and decorators. Students and […]
MADE on EARTH – Egg city, Guangzhou, China – [via] Link. More MADE on EARTH (MAKEZine.com) – Link. More MADE on Earth (MAKE print) – Link.
These are great, homemade DIY vehicles from Chinese farmers – the sub was made by a 67 year old farmer from a village near Wuhan, China. [via] Link. Related: MADE ON EARTH – Link.
Ron writes – “This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some […]
This is a wonderful story, Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 rocks – “It may well be the only village FM radio station on the Asian sub-continent. It is certainly illegal. The transmission equipment, costing just over $1, may be the cheapest in the world. But the local people definitely love it.” – Link.
This garage uses a GPS to get accurate time and then displays it using over 125 LEDs – [via] Link.
Airship writes – “PopSci has a front-page article about a Mexican grandfather who built his own Rocket Pack.” Link and video.
