It’s brutally sizzling, so in case you have the choice to remain inside, take into account retaining cool with a brand new three-hour montage of a loyal dad crafting absurdly intricate, purposeful wood autos for his kids.
And if you need much more craftsmanship, Truong Van Dao has obtained you coated. The YouTuber has spent over 4 years documenting at the least 20 more and more wild woodworking initiatives constructed for his children, together with a tiny tank, Cybertruck, and a Ferrari. Initially centered on shoebox-sized replicas, he steadily scaled up the initiatives to pushable, kid-sized luxurious automobiles, earlier than advancing to a fleet of mini-vehicles that includes precise powertrains, pedals, and steering wheels. However certainly one of his latest undertakings is his boldest and most complicated to this point—a drivable, time machine-inspired wood contraption based mostly on renderings concocted with the assistance of a generative AI artwork program.
In contrast to a lot of the dad’s previous autos, the wood buggy isn’t really based mostly on any specific real-world counterpart. As DesignBoom explains, the automobile’s fantastical, gear-heavy body is constructed round 4 giant batteries housed inside a steel chassis. Taken all collectively, the rounded edges and arrays of mechanical aesthetic thrives like the handfuls of working cogs and movable pistons evoke a steampunk really feel. It’s very cool and as lots of them as potential needs to be chugging down streets. Or, if nothing else, there must be many extra movies documenting the wood sci-fi automobile’s journeys all through Vietnam.
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A part of the enchantment of Truong Van Dao’s movies comes from a normal lack of voiceover explanations, permitting viewers to easily benefit from the painstaking technique of designing, crafting, and developing the tiny idea automobile. Aspiring woodworkers hopefully received’t really feel too discouraged by the dearth of step-by-step directions, since he nonetheless manages to pack in a ton of nearer appears on the manufacturing and meeting.
However for many viewers, simply watching a dad delight his kids—and dozens of neighborhood onlookers—is satisfying sufficient. Generative AI methods have earned numerous (typically warranted) criticism over the previous two years, but when folks like Truong Van Dao need to use it to dream up outlandish concepts, then have at it. Particularly if it in the end lets followers take a few of these issues out for a check drive.