Engineering
As an engineering senior (after six years I probably earned that title, at least!) at Florida Atlantic University, I was required to engineer, with a team of students, a design project of our choosing over the course of two semesters. My ill-considered and ambitious proposal: a robot to travel along pipe networks and inspect them from the inside, using a novel method of "screw" propulsion. This is the story of Team 6: how we screwed the pipe (and made endless other innuendos), learned the lathe, and worked 16 hour days for nothing but two (!) credits and the respect of our fellows.
When two small gasoline engines found their way into the possesion of my friend Jay Wilson and myself, something had to be done with this unexpected good fortune - best to squander both engines at once. Check out the resulting hovercraft.
This same friend and I have spent years building ever larger and more complex speakers for music and home theater use, including such madness as a 200 pound, twin compartment, sloped back masterpiece; the "one day subwoofer"; and the Finnish-birch Bose cabinet (employed in the home, garage, and two separate automobiles) painted in, of all things, a jungle camoflauge scheme.
I've also worked on some projects on a smaller scale - don't miss these entertaining experiments, including my CO2 rockets, light-show mortarboards, and underwater pyrotechnics.