Note: Watch your volume, jet engine. Because some people have all the fun, Robert “Crazy Rocketman” Maddox is back at it, this time as his seafaring alter-ego Crazy Pirate Captain Bob as he pilots a pulsejet powered dinghy. It’s glorious. Could you imagine if you went back in time to
Recently a number of driverless Waymo Jaguar I-PACE taxis have been swarming an Atlanta suburb due to a misrouting issue. Then, when residents put up a ‘SLOW, CHILDREN PLAYING’ sign to prevent more from entering, all the Waymos panicked and created a traffic jam. Waymo claims they’ve seen fixed the
This is a video of RC fanatics Aircraft Model Art of China putting their RC plane knowledge to the ultimate test: building an actual manned airplane. And they succeed, building a 12.45 foot jet that sets the record for world’s smallest. The plane is controlled by (what else?) RC joysticks.
This is a video of Red Bull stunt pilot Dario Costa performing a touch-and-go landing on a train moving at 75MPH. That’s impressive. Way more impressive than just crashing the plane into the side of the train, which is what I would have done, all the money from the bank
Because there comes a time in everyone’s life when they have to fish or cut bait, this is a video of Bob ‘Crazy Rocketman’ Maddox (previously: his other jet-powered contraptions) taking his 230-pound thrust pulsejet powered fishing boat for a trip on the lake. That look on his face: pure,
This is a video of Youtubers Evan Edinger, Tom Scott, and Matt Gray racing from Chiswick in West London to The Ten Bells pub in Spitalfields, East London by e-bike, the Tube, and car to see which is fastest. Google Maps estimates they should all take right around one hour.
You may recall (although I won’t fault you if you don’t) engineer James Bruton previously building an omnidirectional motorbike on two balls. But do you know what’s better than two balls? “Three balls?” Agreed, but James decided to go the less is more route anyways and made an omnidirectional motorball
Because who likes changing gears to make climbing hills easier anyways, this is a video of Sergii Gordieiev of Youtube channel The Q replacing a bicycle chain with a series of 3D printed gears, effectively making it a single speed. So is that an upgrade or a downgrade? I suppose