Hybrid Air Force One
How Stuff Works has a great April Fools article about how the fry-oil hybrid Air Force One jet works. My favorite parts are the “lead-acid battery main housing” and paint job.
Transportation
Xeni joins the cupcake 1%-ers
There’s something divinely surreal about giant cupcakes tooling around with human heads poking out of their centers. We had the cupcake cars at last year’s Bay Area Maker Faire and I had a laugh every time they trundled by the MAKE booth. In this BBtv video, Xeni rides with the Cupcake Cutthroats (shiver me sprinkles!) […]
Excersize and make mixed drinks
We don’t condone drinking and driving here at MAKE, but we do like projects that combine domestic kitchen appliances with transportation devices like this “Bicycle Mixer” project from Berlin. Watch and learn how mixing drinks can actually get you into shape. Unbelievable Bicycle Mixer
Segway muscle transport
File this one under: Why? (Maybe so that you won’t look as much like an extra in Logan’s Run while you’re Segwaying to the 7-11? I know I look like a tremendous dork, but look at all these shiny tires!) “New” Segway [via]
Motorcycle with “steam effects”
Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Meredith Scheff interviews artist Tom Sepe about his mini-bike, converted to run on electricity with a steam boiler to add some cool sound and visual effects. Tom Sepe’s Steampunk Motorbike
Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant
Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant Modern Mechanix, 1936. Fun fact, from Donald Duck artist Carl Barks wikipedia entry… A 1949 Donald Duck ten-pager features Donald raising a yacht from the ocean floor by filling it with ping pong balls. In December 1965 Karl Krøyer, a Dane, lifted the sunken freight vessel Al Kuwait in […]
Bike boats!
Steve @ Dinosaurs and Robots writes – I’m introducing my kids to the ancient sport of Unlimited Bicycle Hydroplane Street Racing. Traditionally, these boats were in built in July and August with wood scavenged from suburban construction sites and cobbled together by unsupervised kids who borrowed their dads tools and made their own fun. Traditional […]
