James Bruton Elastic Band Cart
James Bruton has fabricated many rideable machines over the years. This one began with a simple question: could ordinary elastic bands, the thick variety offered for exercising, store enough energy to propel a full-size cart carrying a person? The solution emerged after weeks of testing, gear ratios, special plates, and meticulous winding. The final contraption rolled approximately ten meters using nothing but twisted resistance bands.

Drake Anthony StyroPyro Mechanical Bulb 1675
Drake Anthony spends a lot of time in the workshop, continually pushing the boundaries of what you can produce with basic materials. His recent video on the styro pyro 2 channel attempts to replicate a phenomenon discovered over three centuries ago. The ultimate result is a glass flask that emits visible light when shaken, eliminating the need for batteries, wiring, or other external power sources.

NEO GEO Doom Port DOOM64KB DOOMGEO
Longtime owners of the Neo Geo AES have watched countless other platforms receive Doom ports over the decades. The console always looked like a strong candidate on paper, with its fast 68000 processor and graphics hardware built for fast sprite handling. Yet the 64 kilobytes of RAM available to the main CPU kept creating a hard stop for anyone who tried a straight conversion. A fresh project shows the limitation was never as final as it once seemed.