Looks like you can make music from anything including worms! One more worm tune after the jump. “Here we see an ensemble of worms creating sweet, sweet electroacoustic music on an electric touch contact feedback device (battery powered). No worms were harmed, despite the fact that they appear alarmed. They secrete albumen which is a sort of numbing thing (I think). Anyways, they were hastily removed and now live
How would you like to cross the country for five dollars? That is exactly what this UBC car can do! It was built to compete in the Super Millage Challenge and won. “Driving from Halifax to Vancouver in the most fuel efficient car you can buy – the Honda Insight Hybrid – would use about 240 litres of gas. Not bad when you compare it with, say, an SUV. But
The Everingham Rotating House must be the geekiest house I have ever seem (I love it). When you get tired of the view from the living room just press a button and rotate the house to change the view. Or when the sun is glaring on the TV instead of closing the blinds you could just rotate out of the sun! “The Everingham rotating house is a 24-metre diameter octagon
Electric go karts seem to be getting more popular these days, the Felixtimlock go kart is one of the fastest ones I have seen so far. There is a description video of the kart after the jump.
At first glance I thought this rolling road made by Haas Automation and Jacobs Engineering was a picture of a toy car on an inverted belt sander. “The one-millimeter thick continuous steel belt will roll at over 180mph, and features sensors under the bed that can take readings at each wheel. At top speed the wind tunnel fan will circulate 2.85 million cubic feet of air per minute! The facility
Who said building and testing rocket motors in your basement is dangerous? “This is the first static test with our homemade tar/oxygen hybrid rocket motor. James Turner and myself (Eric Stackpole), and two of our friends, Jeff Bernard and Caleb Lesher did this project last summer because we wanted to learn more about how rocket engines work. We built the rocket in James’ garage in Humboldt County, CA completely
The Hula Hula engine starts quite slow and looks like it would vibrate tremendously however as it picks up speed it looks like everything balances out. First thing to do after running this engine would be to make sure you still have all of your fingers. “This is a steam type engine running on compressed air.It self starts itself.This was named by the hula style action as it runs.
