The geek culture in the US is simply amazing. People build all kinds of miraculous machineries at home, many of which have become world-class products. Some products even changed the history of mankind.
What's even more amazing is that the US somehow keeps this culture despite decades of mockery and bullying from the pop culture and from school, and despite that generations of Americans thought that the biggest events had to be the football games in their neighborhood high schools and the coolest people were queen bees and sports jockeys.