Dragon (and alien) car mania
Nice alien/dragon car from Krasnoyarsk, Russia! More: Mechanical alien.
Made On Earth
Bucket-borne hydroelectric generator
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool: Pico Hydroelectric Generator in 5 gallon bucket developed by Sam Redfield and tested at La Florida in Guatemala. The generator is meant to be a very small, cheap, low impact generator designed to be used with existing gravity fed irrigation, fresh water, or waste water systems.
Wave Synth 2.0 adds sound to watery chaos
The “WaveSynth 2.0” by Leo Peschta is a digital instrument that creates sound through the use of mechanical valves in a water basin and an array of sensors to detect the pattern and movement of the waves. The resulting data is sent to a computer which then synthesizes the data into a sound composition. Nice […]
Homemade airplane from farmer in China flies!
This appears to be a video of a homemade airplane made in China by a farmer called the “Shanzhai huaxiangji” via Kottke. It’s hard to tell what’s actually going on, it could be a fake but there are some interesting things about what it’s called — more about the airplane (name) here. “Shanzhai” means homemade […]
Internet dating wedding cakes get you hitched
Did you meet your significant other on the Internet? This couple decided to take the advent of their Internet-meeting and eventual wedding to the ultimate level by baking two laptop-shaped wedding cakes, attaching their profiles to the screens, and even connecting them together with a candy ethernet cable with hearts on the plugs. Pretty “sweet” […]
Astro Boy poster gets the ticket every time
This 10 x 7 foot poster of Astro Boy pixel art is made from 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets and was created to mark the opening of Tokyo’s new Fukutoshin subway line. Really nice design with subway appropriate materials to boot. [via]
Wooden bike gallery
More “cocopunk” goodness, here a round-up of wooden bikes from around the world on Kevin Kelly’s Street Use. Wooden Bikes Related: Is Gilligan the next Jules Verne? Wooden bike
