What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday December 2, 2006 @03:38AM from the something-you'd-never-forget dept.

Josh Lindenmuth asks: "In high school I was involved in an engineering competition where we needed to create a machine that could move 100 lbs of groceries from a disabled person's car up and down a set of stairs, and then into their kitchen. It was probably the coolest thing I ever built (there were only 3 of us on the team), even though the wooden treads started splintering halfway up the stairs (we didn't have a metal shop, so it was made entirely out of wood, spare boat parts, and conveyor belts) and then it completely destroyed the stairs on its way down (it weighed over 300 lbs)." That's Josh's story, now he wants to know yours. Cool computers, cars, hovercraft, handheld devices, fusion reactors — what is the most interesting gadget, product, or device that you've ever built on your own?

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Hope he's smarter than his parents! by FatSean · 2006-12-02 03:53 · Score: 0, Troll

Because, even if you were his mother, you didn't 'build' him any more than you 'built' that giant corn-speckled turd you just dropped off!

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And who do you work for now? by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2006-12-02 04:00 · Score: 0, Troll

It was probably the coolest thing I ever built...even though the wooden treads started splintering halfway up the stairs and then it completely destroyed the stairs on its way down."

And who do you work for now?

I'm guessing NASA or the Army Corps of Engineers...
Best in show by j-min · 2006-12-02 05:12 · Score: 1, Troll

I invented the internet.