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This 3D-Printed RC Bulldozer Has Enough Torque to Tow a 4-Year-Old in a Wagon
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (350+ words) The one-piece belt eliminates the pin-and-link system entirely, sparing builders from what is typically both the most tedious assembly task and the component most likely to give out when stress is applied. Voltage went from 7.4V up to 12V mid-build, and the…...
A One-Dollar Paper Trick Just Exposed a Flaw in Tesla's Autopilot Tech
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (129+ words) The paper trick isn’t even a new exploit. A Reddit post from 2022 on r/RealTesla flagged the same vulnerability with the headline, “Tesla attention awareness feature easily defeated by printed image.” What’s changed since then is the scale and creativity…...
YouTuber 3D-Printed a Sealed RC Excavator That Digs Real Creek Mud and Stacks Jenga
2+ day, 9+ hour 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…...
RC Pilot Hits 130 MPH in a Giant Scale Jet — and Admits He Was "Freaking Out"
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (172+ words) At a certain point, a radio-controlled aircraft stops feeling like a hobby and starts feeling like a liability. For the pilot flying at the Elena meeting 2026, that point appears to have been somewhere around 130 miles per hour. For context, Ramy…...
Build Your Next M-Car With a Prompt: Inside BMW’s Surprising ChatGPT Integration
2+ day, 13+ hour 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…...
NHTSA Cracks Down on Autonomous Vehicles Blocking First Responders
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (386+ words) While a robotaxi getting confused at a four-way stop is a frustrating inconvenience for local commuters, an autonomous vehicle actively blocking a fire truck is a life-threatening disaster. After months of mounting incidents, the federal government is finally stepping in…...
DIY Jet Engine Erupts in Flames Before Melting Its Own Internals
1+ week, 9+ 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…...
YouTuber Spends 18 Months 3D-Printing a Real and Cheap Nuclear Fusion Reactor
1+ week, 11+ 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…...
Flywing's $2,099 FPV X-Wing RC Fighter Jet Is Engineered to Be Nearly Impossible to Crash
1+ week, 2+ day 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…...
Forget Flying Cars: Farmer Rides a Heavy-Lift Drone 1.5 km Home in Viral Video
1+ week, 3+ 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....