Daring to dream: some people aren’t afraid to do it. Case in point: this video of the Brick Experiment Channel trying to construct the world’s longest 1:1 LEGO gear train (with first and last gears turning at the same speed), all driven by a single LEGO Power Functions motor. And
In what the hell is wrong with you news, this is a video of competitive eater L.A. Beast setting a new Guinness World Record for further distance walked barefoot on LEGO bricks, with an incredibly painful 3,886.20-meters (12,750-feet, ~2.4148-miles, beating the previous record set by barefoot marathon runner Sonny Molina
These are the ‘Delightful Dunkers’ 3-D printed and sold by Etsy shop FlipTricks. $8.50 will get you a pack of three skewers designed to pierce and hold the creme filling of an OREO while you dunk the cookie in a glass of milk or, if you’re doing it completely wrong,
This is a video tour of the incredibly impressive full-size pinball machine built out of K’Nex by Youtuber Tyler Bower. The machine stands 7-feet tall, 5-feet long, 3-feet wide, has automatic scoring and nine unique features including ramps, trap doors, multiball, and a mini pinball playfield. Three motors (including a
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and that will led environmentalist Taylor Mali to develop the Snatchelator, a 28-foot telescoping paint roller modified with some gnarly looking bent metal braces that’s proven very successful at removing plastic bags from trees in his Carroll Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn. Some more
This is a video of Youtuber agepbiz’s quest (appropriate) to 3D print himself a human scale LEGO knight’s helmet large enough to fit his own respectable-sized dome. The process included taking close-up photos of a helmet then digitizing them into a computer model, then upscaling that model by 2020% and
Go big or go home: I went home and I have no regrets. Other people, other people have decided to go big. This is a video tour of Czech Republic LEGO builder Marek Mencl’s 1,000,000+ piece LEGO Hogwarts Castle. Just look at that thing! The entire castle takes up an
When I was 14 I could barely stick two LEGO bricks together without gluing my head to the table. Well, it appears Twitter user Laura33697398’s son may have slightly surpassed my ability at the same age and created this entire Manhattan build. Impressive. I mean near as impressive as impressive