Jet-Powered Merry-Go-Round at Gadgetoff '09 (HQ)

Brooklyn-based arts collective The Madagascar Institute had tested their home-built jet-powered merry-go-round—they'd just never tested it with people on it. So PM's Seth Porges volunteered his life and limb (a nearby warning sign warned that it "Could Kill You") to be the first human ever to take a jet-powered ride on this steam punk-inspired machine. Here is his maiden voyage.

Go to http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/workshop/4331862.html to read the complete story.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• gadget
• diy
• projects
• jet
• engines
• thrills
• rides

[RAndersom]

Pulse jets are kinda like ramjets retarded cousin.

[originaldriver]

You guys are frigging nuts. You used two "pulse-jets" to make a merry-go-round.

You get two thumbs up just for not killing yourselves.

[lusciouspigroast]

homeless inventors these days

[rossfruin]

Survival of the fittest. Freaking idiots.



[bonbongirl85]

I want to ride

[YunGAcE2126]

it looks like freakin harry potter lol

[aryllia]

@208jodi I'm only half lez and thoroughly agree with you on the girl in the labcoat. Short as the moment was, I did fall a tiny bit in love there XD

[Nabo00o]

And the crowd is deaf!

[208jodi]

im not a lez but that chick in the short skirt and lab coat with the high black socks is kinda hot in a nerdy kinda way lol

[plopi567]

alton towers should have 50 of these