Is the DIY community so prevelent in the 50’s making a comeback?

Originally Featured on Auto Week

 
By PETE LYONS

Bruce Crower has lived, breathed and built hot engines his whole life. Now he’s working on a cool one—one that harnesses normally-wasted heat energy by creating steam inside the combustion chamber, and using it to boost the engine’s power output and also to control its [...]

Originally Posted on Popular Science
Walking is overrated. Here’s how to build the ultimate lazy man’s all-terrain vehicle, and a video of the sweet ride in action
By Doug Cantor Posted 02.28.2008 at 3:21 pm

On Deck: PopSci’s John Carnett on his home-built motorized skateboard. It can go as fast as 20 mph, and steers like [...]

Originally Posted on Popular Science
To create beautiful electrical-charge patterns like this, you could use a giant particle accelerator. But shag carpeting will also do just fine. Watch how Lichtenberg figures are made in our amazing video
By Theodore Gray Posted 02.15.2008 at 1:06 pm

Lightning Trigger: A Lichtenberg figure being created by a tap from a [...]