Grassroots Toaster

Just heard this on the radio. A guy built a toaster from scratch- like, really from scratch. Mined the copper, smelted the iron- you get the idea. Neat.

http://www.amazon.com/Toaster-Project-Attempt-Electric-Appliance/dp/1568989970

Yeah, he did a talk at TED before he wrote the book. You can watch it here.
http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch.html

I used to paint flame jobs and scallops on them. If Etsy had existed then, I might even have sold a few

I think a couple of friends still have 'em.

In any case, not nearly as cool as building one from scratch. I'm not lost for project ideas to the extent that I would consider doing that, ever, but I bet it really was interesting to learn the whole process...

Making his own plastic for the case was obviously challenging

I was hoping you could burn the GRM symbol into the bread.

The toaster guy is pretty much my hero.

Melting iron ore in his moms microwave. Plus he is funny as hell