This Modern Ship in a Bottle Is Lit with LEDs and Fiber Optics
LEDs give a ghostly glow to this modern take on a ship in a bottle.
Made On Earth
Watch: Robot Band Turns Scrap Metal to Heavy Metal
This larger than life robot band has a big sound and a bigger stage presence.
Nixtrola
“I went online to buy a nixie clock and didn’t see any I really liked,” says Woodland Hills, California tinkerer Sean Fannin about timepieces made from coldwar-era numeral-displaying nixie tubes. “A lot were DIY kits that ended up looking cheap. I wanted to build something a little more slick.” After buying and assembling a basic kit clock, […]
Treetop Tinkering
Perched high in a coniferous tree in Sandpoint, Idaho sits a hexagonal treehouse, handmade by 23-year-old Ethan Schlussler. During the build process, he grew tired of climbing up and down the ladder over and over. So he created a treehouse elevator, using his mom’s old bicycle. The elevator is a pulley system that uses a […]
Los Ferronautas
Mexico is crisscrossed by a vast network of abandoned railroads, no longer connecting many communities that had once relied on their freight and passenger service. In 2006, Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene, brothers and artists in Mexico City, cooked up the idea to explore the lost routes and places. “We designed a spacecraft, a […]
Bigger Wheel
Too big for your old Big Wheel? Get back in the race by building an adult-sized trike from plywood.
Lumber Hack
Picture it: A giant supermarket claw machine, but instead of a metal hand with a frustratingly weak grip, it’s a real-life chainsaw. In place of stuffed animals, there are stumps of wood on the cutting floor, ready for ripping.