PROTIP: Keep your volume low. Possibly muted entirely. These are a couple videos of musician Honest Kevin (IS HE THOUGH?) of Moon Armada performing with his ‘baby bot noise ensemble’. And what a noise ensemble it is! If I was forced to listen to this any longer than it took

This is a video documenting Youtuber The Lab-X’s quest to build an AI-powered water turret to keep his cat Cookie off the kitchen counter. The 3D printed bot, named Puffy, uses computer-vision to track the cat’s movement and spray him when he’s detected on the counter. Lab-X plans to sell

Inspired by AI slop images, engineer Allen Pan (previously) decided to try building an aquarium toilet in real life. The result? A surprisingly functional aquarium toilet. If I’d tried building it? An unsurprisingly unfunctional aquarium toilet and $18K of water damage in the basement. BONUS AI slop beer boots made

This is a video of LEGO experimenter Brick Technology (previously) pitting LEGO cars against increasingly larger loopty loops. It was a fun watch with surprisingly high production value, and this is the exact sort of experimenting I wish I spent my weekends doing. But nooooo, I spent the entirety of

Because why buy 2-liters of Coca-Cola when you can spend a whole year and small fortune trying to make it yourself at home (do Mentos next!), this is a video documenting engineer Zach Armstrong’s quest to replicate the exact Coca-Cola formula. Zach uses mass spectrometry to determine the chemical composition

This is a video of laser and high-voltage experimenter StyroPyro (who I don’t wish lived next door, but do wish lived in the neighborhood) constructing the most powerful handheld laser — a liquid-cooled blaster 50,000X more powerful than a typical laser pointer. Damn! He then tests to see what it

This is a video of Morley Kert building a mini library in the wall of the landing of his stairs (technically his landlord’s stairs), complete with a secret door that takes a special combination to unlock. That’s whimsical. And you know how I feel about whimsy! “It’s your middle name.”

This is a video of mad inventor Colin Furze (previously) building a quadruple barrel toilet paper launcher. He also experiments with a single barrel launcher that sets the paper on fire as it’s launched, but that one still needs some tweaking (like my nips). I can’t even imagine what would