Category Archives: Engineering

Water Jetpack!

Posted on 10/12/2011 by Adam
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Dam!

Posted on 06/11/2011 by Adam

On October 26th, a hole was blasted in the base of 125′ tall Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington. In less than 2 hours, the reservoir behind the dam drained completely and the White Salmon flowed unimpeded … Continue reading →

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Floppy Toccata & Fugue

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Adam

For those of you that remember floppy drives, this is just the best. For the rest of ye… well, you had to be there…

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Chainmail Gloves

Posted on 12/01/2011 by Adam

Yikes! Don’t worry, he doesn’t lose a finger. Watch to the end. BoingBoing

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Bathtime

Posted on 08/12/2010 by Adam

<waits for giant rubber duck to float into shot>

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Not So Dinky

Posted on 02/12/2010 by Adam

Filed under Engineering. Calling this art is like calling Tracey Emin’s Everyone I Have Ever Slept With… uh… art.

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Tram Junction Rebuild

Posted on 19/10/2010 by Adam

There aren’t many web videos that could hold my attention for 12 minutes, but this time-lapse of a tram junction rebuild in San Francisco just captivates. I actually went back to watch them pour the concrete a second time. :)

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Tiny Cannon!

Posted on 08/08/2010 by Adam
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Can I have a go?

Posted on 08/08/2010 by Adam

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany, transformed an industrial robot arm into a Formula 1 simulator.

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YouTube – Monsterbike

Posted on 04/06/2010 by Adam
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