Hydroelectric Power Generator

A 5th grade tinkerer named Luigi Maiorano built this fine little working hydroelectric power plant and showed it off at my kid’s school science fair.


cool scale cockpit video
My wife noticed this in the family archives.
Motorcycle racing in Lilliput.

Here’s an RC multicopter big enough to ride on!

Amazing remote first person view piloting.

I had a fun time talking to Mark Frauenfelder in episode 4 of his new podcast, Make: Talk!
Pictures of boxes full of sweet vintage motorcycle helmets

I feel like I could be getting more mileage out of my right foot.
An Etsy portrait. Thanks, Danny.

Champs sleeve

My friend Tess just made the cover of ReadyMade with her cool lamp design.

Can this be for real? The design is so awesomely Thunderbirds. Via

Are Go!

A 5th grade tinkerer named Luigi Maiorano built this fine little working hydroelectric power plant and showed it off at my kid’s school science fair.
Wow! That’s neat. Maybe we aren’t all doomed.
THat’s really smart!! How did you do it oh 5th grade tinkerer? I need to make one too, but still in the process of figuring out how to make one strong enough to light the smallest bulb in human history…