7+ hour, 57+ min ago  (454+ words) Most RC excavators are desk ornaments. They wave their arms around, maybe push some sand, and eventually get shelved next to the keyboard. The one YouTuber ProfessorBoots just finished is a different animal – a heavy-duty, outdoor-capable machine built entirely from…...

12+ hour, 14+ min ago  (399+ words) For decades, the digital car configurator has been the ultimate time-killer for gearheads. Clicking through endless submenus to spec out a high-performance build with the exact right wheels, paint, and carbon fiber trim is practically a rite of passage. But…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (159+ words) The ambition was admirable: a small-scale jet engine designed from the ground up so that ordinary makers, with no specialist equipment, could replicate it. The result was also instructive – just not in the way the creator intended. Then they lit…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (298+ words) “Ever procrastinated for something so hard that you ended up going on a 1 and a half year tangent trying to build a nuclear reactor?” That’s how Martin, the creator behind YouTube channel Made By Martin, opens his video. It’s a…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (331+ words) The result retails at $2,099 on flywingrc.com, and it already sold out within days of going live. In GPS Cruise mode, the aircraft enforces a minimum altitude of roughly 240 feet before allowing any shift into forward flight – a built-in constraint…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (436+ words) While Silicon Valley debates the finer points of eVTOL certification and air taxi pricing, a banana plantation worker in East Java just dangled from a heavy-lift agricultural drone over a fish-pond-riddled field and covered 1.5 kilometers home without breaking a sweat....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (386+ words) The question driving the Neuronautics NX2 project was deceptively simple: could artificial intelligence produce a flying wing so aerodynamically refined that it could cover 200 kilometers on a single charge? After months of simulation, testing, crashing, and rebuilding, the answer turned out…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (265+ words) Lego introduced its pneumatic system back in 1984, and it has remained a staple of the Technic line ever since, allowing builders to route compressed air through small tubes to drive pistons in reciprocating motion. Most people use it to make…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (643+ words) But that’s exactly what the mad scientists over at the YouTube channel InsideAI just pulled off. In their latest theatrical experiment, they handed over the car-buying reins to an AI and decided to test whether advanced artificial intelligence can be…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (338+ words) The central motor, the driveshafts, the differentials, the gearbox – all of it gone. A YouTube channel called Do RC has put together what it describes as the first true direct-drive RC basher, and the outcome is every bit as bizarre…...