A Finnish builder spent about $20,700 and 200 days creating a lightweight 36-foot plywood solar boat designed around efficiency rather than speed. Earlier in 2026, the vessel traveled more than 3,000 ...

The boat comes past and you hear the water before you hear the boat. There is no exhaust note, no fuel smell, no wake worth naming. The roof is a flat sheet of dark blue glass. Underneath it are a bed ...

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It’s probably a dream common to many groups of friends among the Hackaday readership: go away together to a sunny island some time in the summer, take a load of beer and maybe a BBQ, and build ...

As you likely know, it's the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, undertaking the largest from-the-sea invasion in the history of human warfare and ...

Phoenix-based Supersede may be located some distance from the ocean, but that’s not stopping it from developing the world’s first 1:1 marine-grade plywood replacement for boatbuilding and other ...

Our list of incredible projects built from 2 x 4s isn't the only testament to what can be done with construction-grade lumber. Here we've gone even more minimal: These builds are each made from a ...