What is the coolest thing you ever built?

[dh]

With the exception of a teardrop or ttt what is the coolest thing you ever built? Mine was an electric triggered clay thrower, made it out of a clay thrower, a door lock solenoid, a broken guitar pedal and an adjustable timer circuit from RadioShack. Powered it off the 6 pin connector on my old F150. Set the timer, mash the pedal, timer counted down, optional buzzer could sound with a .25 second delay, and it would throw the clay. Sorry no pictures, I sold it when I moved from Kansas in 04

[bohemian]

Mine would be a house.

[hotrod]

I got quite a bit of cool stuff under my belt, this one is one of the bigger ones.. the most awesome thing I have built is my family..

[caseydog]

As an extra credit project in High School English Literature class, I built a scale model of the Globe theatre from scratch. It took me months two build after school.

The school asked to keep it. My high school is gone, now, and I have no idea what may have happened to it.

If I took any pictures, they are long gone.

CD

[Synthesis]

I was part of a team for this, but this is by far the coolest thing I have ever built.



25 people from all over the US, backed by literally hundreds of people watching live on webcam... We built the car from a bare frame to a show car in 23 hours...

[doug hodder]

This boat was a real fun/ labor intensive build. Great car builds guys! Doug

[hotrod]

This boat was a real fun/ labor intensive build. Great car builds guys! Doug

doug, that is awesome!! I live in boat country and old woodies are to die for!!! quite a few old thompsons and chris crafts around...

[hotrod]

heres a quickie build kick scooter I built this spring for a partial commute to work.
I work in fargo nd right along the river so flooding is an issue , we get to walk the last 3/4 mile or so to work.. built this instead of walking..I need to hang a motor on it.. I left the room to do so..

[Zollinger]

DH and built the B9. Bought the bubble and torso and chest neon. We pretty much scratch built everything else. Wish I could find a better picture of him lit up.

[asianflava]

A small golfball launching trebuchet. It wasn't that hard to build, but kinda cool. I was bored at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoxyfn0H ... r_embedded

[Vindi_andy]

Doug, love that boat sahes beautiful

As somone else said the best thing I built was my family but after that it would have to be my toy.

[john warren]

mine would be my land schooner. sorry no pics.
its a three wheeled frame with a mast and sails off a 17 foot racing sloop
able to run along near 40 miles an hour for my best run.

[eamarquardt]

mine would be my land schooner. sorry no pics.
its a three wheeled frame with a mast and sails off a 17 foot racing sloop
able to run along near 40 miles an hour for my best run.

Best I was able to do on our 38 was 12 knots surfing and 9 knots continous on a beam reach with 25 knots of apparent wind.

My boyz might say the coolest thing I built (besides their push racers) was a launch pad for 2 liter soda bottles. They'd regularly hit altitudes of 50 feet or so. I was "forced" to confiscate it when they discovered (with my grown neigbor's help) that shooting at passing cars was more "sporting".

Cheers,

Gus

[dh]

Nice projects guys. I was half expecting to see a potato cannon

I gues Gus got close.

In College, I was part of a team of 7 that converted an S-10 to electric, but I don't really think it was that cool, we had a kit with all the parts and instructions, we just had to do some minor fabrication work and modify a few parts to make them fit.

[dh]

Nice projects guys. I was half expecting to see a potato cannon

I gues Gus got close.

In College, I was part of a team of 7 that converted an S-10 to electric, but I don't really think it was that cool, we had a kit with all the parts and instructions, we just had to do some minor fabrication work and modify a few parts to make them fit.