Since several months before Crysis 2′s eagerly-awaited release, Well, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of the Sandbox 3 editor. Although It could be said Crysis 2 wasn’t exactly the splash hit the team at crytek had imagined and hoped for, the release is definitely a beautiful work of graphics blood sweat and tears. So when I heard that the sandbox 3 editor was going to be released in the…

Introducing the latest mad science project, the Vortex Ring Cannon! This device, using the same basic principles as a smoke ring generator (like the kind sold as a novelty during halloween), “shoots” a ring of air using a small combustion chamber.  The device is mostly completed, with only a couple of parts still needing to be acquired. Inside, a combustion chamber with two outer layers for blowout mitigation provides the…

Similar to the acoustic resonance generator project from previous sound experiments, this stove-pipe-centric device uses the expanding and contracting properties of the semi-flexible stovepipe to radiate sound omni-directionally . The tube is vertically placed above a typical stereo speaker facing up, then another is placed on top, facing directly towards the other speaker. Whenever sound is played at equal volume from both speakers, the tube seems to attenuate higher frequencies…