Random Awesome Things

ShamWOW! that's a lot of batteries! (not to mention awesome)

Now for the hard part, how are they gonna market that to people who haven't a clue how to fly a quadrocopter/multicopter?

Yesterday, I automatically generated some gears with Inventor:

Bwahahahahahaha!

I wish I were better at that

Yeast has been forced to (successfully) evolve into a multicellular organism in the lab:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=test-tube-yeast-evolve

This is cool, but touchscreen controlled battlebots may be a tad impractical:
http://gizmodo.com/5886056/wi+fi-controller-lets-you-operate-any-rc-toy-from-your-iphone

so that's what dimensions been up to all this time, they kind of stopped making stuff up till now

The Georgia Tech Invention Studio made it on the White House blog!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/02/28/making-makers-georgia-tech

i figure with most people on here, we all appreciate a good wood worker, well here is a twist here is a guy who works only with his feet watch the video you will be impressed

http://vimeo.com/23095780

http://thechive.com/2012/04/18/dominos-pizza-safe-sound-guy-rides-a-silent-electrical-scooter-like-a-champion-video/#s4LjXyhFVxKLbqKS.01

Asteroid mining? Asteroid Mining!

http://www.valuehobby.com/6ch-dsm-compatible-receiver.html

This. Is. Awesome! Dunno if it has safety cutoff or not, but omg it's tiny! and cheap!

My incomplete BE306 project

does that process wood down to boards as part of a system or is it like a giant lathe.

or is for cutting firewood?

It's a firewood processor
An electic winch pulls a 10ft 16" round log up onto a conveyor, a conveyor chain feeds 14" into a 6100 rpm, 8 gpm hydraulic motor/chainsaw with 125in-lbs of torque actuated by a 2" bore cylinder, 500psi, 3gpm hydraulic actuator with 1500 lbs force cuts through the log in 9.17 seconds, drops into a bin where it's split by a 20 ton hydraulic cylinder and falls to a pile on the ground

Ill drive over and chop firewood for way less cash how much would a machine like this cost?

We havent actually gotten to a cost analysis yet but theres some like it that are $8k-$10k
The parts start adding up really quick
Youll have a couple grand into just the 30 hp Kawasaki motor and 3000 psi 25 gpm hydraulic pump to run all that the components

http://www.thingap.com/

Eureka? (Heavy outer wall, anyone?)

Found this while skimming through the site that new guy posted. Apparently he worked for this company for 2 years!

OK, that thingap motor looks VERY interesting for a drum! I wonder what the limitations are for the height of the rings?

it looks like that thing could withstand some serious abuse.