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My brother Steve and I hand-cut and hand-painted 5,292 wooden dominoes plus some bigger-sized blocks after efforts to find large amounts of professional quality toppling dominoes fell short. This is the result of about $100 worth of materials and a whole lot of man-hours. LINK: Youtube
For close-up photos of key stunts and explanations on how they work, visit http://www.mazeguy.net/basement.html
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Gabriel Nderitu, an IT professional in Kenya, is almost finished making his homemade airplane. He researched the design online and built it out of spare parts:
In the end, Nderitu mounted a Toyota engine to his modular airframe. The strutted wing and ailerons are skinned with aluminum sheet. The engine itself turns up to 4,000 rpm, driving a 74-inch wooden propeller through a simple reduction belt drive.
Nderitu plans to make his first flight soon.
Link, Via: Geekosystem, Via: Neatorama
817 Pacific Ave.
Morris, MN, 56267
Phone:(320) 287-2257 or (320) 585-5739
Website: http://www.pastamanonline.com
He makes some outstanding Homemade Pasta. I have tried 6 different kinds and they have all been really good.
Check out the website for the varieties he has and Feel free to give him a call if you would like to order some.
This beautiful handmade knife is shaped entirely from fiber optic glass. You know, the stuff that gives us super fast internet. A knifemaker used a process called knapping, a throwback method of shaping stones into useful tools, to form it.
Knapping is considered art, and I'd totally agree with this if I didn't think the knife sort of looked like Jello. Beautiful, sweet Jello that could stab you. You can buy your own fiber optic knife for $165. [Make, Via: Crunchgear], Via: Gizmodo
[YouTube - Link]
Homemade musical instrument using plastic swizzle sticks for keys.
An example of repurposing ordinary household materials for musical experimentation.
- Via: instructables, Via: Neatorama
“When making delicious pasta dishes, be sure to choose a pasta shape and sauce that complement each other. Thin, delicate pastas like angel hair or thin spaghetti, should be served with light, thin sauces. Thicker pasta shapes, like fettuccine, work well with heavier sauces. Pasta shapes with holes or ridges like mostaccioli or radiatore, are perfect for chunkier sauces… Here are all 51 pasta shapes.” w/ photos. LINK
Llyn Foulkes sings and accompanies himself on 'the machine', a musical instrument of many parts built by Mr. Foulkes. Music and lyrics by Llyn Foulkes. Recorded May 14, 2009 at the Church of Art at the Brewery, a Los Angeles artists' colony. Link: The Machine | Llyn Foulkes’ website, Via: Youtube
English Russia has a gallery of snowmobiles made from scrap and repurposed materials. The one above is arguably the most awesome:
This bulky machine constructed by one enthusiast retiree from the Russian city of Kirov is powered by the old Yamaha motorcycle engine and is entirely made of scrap. Fiberglass seat was formerly a part of a small carousel, gear shift lever was a part of an unidentified old Coca-Cola souvenir. The front skies are covered with fluoroplastic, a material with extremely low friction factor. The main distinctive feature of this snowmobile is a big wheel instead of a regular for such kind of transport rubber heavy caterpillar made of metal and rubber. For this reason this monster is very light which allows it to drive on fresh crumbly snow.
They also note that heat from the engine will warm both the passenger and the fuel tank. There are a number of other interesting contraptions in the gallery, several of which incorporate propellors in the style of a swamp airboat (the last one at the link uses a rotary lawnmower blade mounted on an inflated innertube!)
Link. Via: Neatorama
Intermolecular polarity is a fancy way of saying "oil and water don't mix". Here, Science Bob explains why, and shows off a fun trick you can do over and over with oil, water, food coloring and alka-seltzer. LINK, Via: Youtube
Bernard H. Pietenpol had a dream. He wanted to make an airplane accessible to the masses. So in 1928, with only an eighth-grade education, he set out to design and build a simple, inexpensive plane. The result was the Pietenpol AirCamper, and his family is still selling the plans for it, just in case you’re in the mood for a weekend project.
Hobbyist Chuck Gantzer was in such a mood, and at the link, you can see in-process photos of the construction of an AirCamper, as well as of the completed airplane in flight.
Link, Via: Make, Via: Neatorama | Pietenpol AirCamper Website | Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Davesbit made his own globe using maps from the Generic Mapping Tools project; he used a beachball for a mold and cast the sphere with fiberglass and foam.
Here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for the inside of the sphere-half mold...
The stand was made from scraps of red oak from a computer table he built...
globe with stand (Via: Make, Via: Boingboing)
A Chinese farmer, who has invented more than 100 unique instruments without spending a penny, brings fun to the countryside with his folk band. LINK: Youtube
“Dandelions are in season during the spring and summer months, but they lend themselves deliciously to a beverage you can serve year-round. April and May are the best months to harvest dandelions for the purpose of wine making in the Northern hemisphere. Try it out, and taste it for yourself.” w/ photos.
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