The Chinese Aeronauts Who Build Gyrocopters From Gaming Joysticks and Spare Parts
• Wired by Laura MalloneeIn her dreams, Xiaoxiao Xu flies as birds do, riding the wind on outstretched arms, her body light and free.
ON AIR NOW
Click to Play
In her dreams, Xiaoxiao Xu flies as birds do, riding the wind on outstretched arms, her body light and free.
I fondly remember a wasted youth cozying up to glass-topped boxes of flashing lights, strange sounds and steel balls flying around an angled assault course.
A group of twelve girls with no prior engineering experience developed a solar-powered tent for the homeless. Along the way, they learned the ins-and-outs of sewing, coding and 3D printing.
Upon request from our readers, I was asked to make a follow-up to the MRE article.
Upon request from our readers, I was asked to make a follow-up to the MRE article.
Want to learn how to build a cheap house? Look no further.
Don't panic--you can get them back
In order to show the potential of ITAP's hybrid recycling method, they pit a Tesla Model S P90D, Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan LEAF, and "The Phoenix" against each other on a highway range test.
"Avoid Regulation, Crime and Floods"
Live television is not over. What's over is having 14,000 impossible-to-navigate channels and a remote you need a PhD to operate, all tied to a giant overheating box that hasn't been redesigned since the Clinton administration.
How to make an Evap./Swamp Air Cooler using a 5 gallon bucket. Evaporative Cooler works very well. easy to make. powerful breeze. low temps. for even more cooling add ice to the water. holds 2 gallons of water at a time. takes about 15 watts of power
(Natural News) Our lives certainly aren't getting any less stressful, and more and more people are stepping away from health damaging, addictive drugs like Xanax to calm their nerves, and are instead healing themselves through natural remedies.
(Natural News) As the cost of dental care continues to increase, people are turning to Do-It-Yourself alternatives for common problems. A quick YouTube search will produce dozens of videos on how to whiten your teeth, how to fill your cavities, and e
Masaki Ogasawara, Keisuke Tsukada and Erika Mikami are the masterminds behind this environmentally-friendly and functional design, combining straw bales with different materials to make a practical and almost entirely biodegradable single-story home.
Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at
The Arduino microcontroller is incredibly popular with hobbyists, and powers some amazing DIY projects. This 2017 Arduino Starter Kit and Course Bundle provides everything you need to get started learning about electronics and the Internet of Things.
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." -General James "Mad Dog" Mattis
Will the wonders never cease?
You can't stop gazing at the luminous full moon--you need to share this with Instagram. So you pull out your phone, aim at the heavens, and capture...a fuzzy white blob. The firmament is one of the hardest targets to snap on a phone. Why? A smartp
Break down and recompress trash to make new things. When humans move into new territory, we leave waste behind, and one of our most harmful byproducts is plastic. Dave Hakkens wants to solve the planet's plastic problem with a build-it-yourself hom
There's nothing quite like putting down roots and tending a garden. But what happens if you don't have a backyard? Or you're suddenly uprooted? Or you decide to go on a road trip and can't get anyone to watch your plants?
(NaturalNews) As we are nearing the end of the year, the flu and cold season is kicking into high gear. While it isn't the cold weather itself that makes you sick - you can get a cold year-round - most people tend to get sick during the winter
WIRED spoke with Peter Bibring--director of police practices for the ACLU of California and an architect of Mobile Justice, a free app that allows users to transmit live video of police encounters directly to the ACLU--about what people need to kno
TED Resident Fawn Qiu designs fun, low-cost projects that use familiar materials like paper and fabric to introduce engineering to kids.
This video shows you how to easly make a 45 pound slingbow for less than $5
For this project let's build a sexy looking generator that uses electricity to convert water into an extremely powerful fuel! Here's how to build an Oxy-Hydrogen generator from scratch.
This is my ghost gun. To quote the rifleman's creed, there are many like it, but this one is mine. It's called a "ghost gun"--a term popularized by gun control advocates but increasingly adopted by gun lovers too--because it's an untracea
Seed bombs allow activists to sporadically plant fruits, vegetables, and flowers for community members to utilize.
A custom chopper-pontoon-racecar
This activist's invention may save lives, considering that Gaza is expected to run out of drinkable water within the next few months.