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Popular Science photographer John Carnett builds a four-wheeler with a screaming Garrett turbine jet engine

Built around a Polaris RZR all-terrain vehicle, John Carnett's homemade machine tops out at just over 60 mph powered by its 87-pound Garrett GTP 30-67 tubine jet engine. The project took Carnett 10 months to build at a cost of more than $15,000.Read More

New Zealand inventor Rudy Heeman used a gas bottle from the family barbecue, parts from his wife's car, and the control lever from his daughter's motor scooter for his creation. The craft can fly at up to 60 mph at a height of about 5 feet.Read More

Build a DIY $1000 Fusion Reactor in Your Basement

Most college freshmen fill their dorm rooms with clothes, books, and electronics. Thiago Olson also brought his fusion reactor. But Vanderbilt University drew the line: No do-it-yourself reactors in the dorm! Instead, his device was housed in a nearby laboratory.Read More

Easy to build LED light box dances to your music

Here's a really simple electronics project that plugs into your computer or music source, and the LEDs react in sync to your music.Read More

Inventor Jem Stansfield Climbs Walls Using Vacuum Cleaner Parts

British inventor Jem Stansfield has been labeled the "Human Fly" after scaling the BBC building in London using suction from two vacuum cleaners.Read More

Wireless car starter project starts car using a cell phone

Fed up with his frigid car, Aaron installed a remote starter to warm the car up before he got to it. This didn’t help at his work because his car was parked several hundred feet from his office - outside the range of his OEM starter. Aaron decided to make his starter work with GSM so he could start his car with a phone call from any distance.Read More

David Keyes

Have you ever wondered how the huge 803 foot long by 130 foot in diameter Hindenburg Zeppelin was built in the 1930s? Apparently with several really tall ladders.

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Woodworking project shows how a combination lock works

In terms of neat mechanical things to build out of wood, Matthias Wandel figured a single dial sequential combination lock would be a great project to make. It's relatively simple and shows people how a combination lock actually works. The video (below) shows the steps.Read More

One of the oldest tricks in the photography book revisited

Brian Auer

A double exposure is a relatively simple photography trick that can be used to achieve all sorts of fun effects - ghosts, fake twins, mirror images or something as simple as superimposing a backdrop of trees into a romantic scene.Read More

Man builds a working scale model of a dual clutch computer-controlled VW transmission

Alan Wenbourne built a demonstration model of a Volkswagen DSG (Direct Shift Gearbox): a 6-speed and reverse, computer controlled dual clutch transmission.Read More