Mechanical Monster Hands, Run for Your Lives!
How to make a working pair of giant monster hands and arm extenders for a costume.
Mechanical Engineering
These Working Papercraft Engines Are Jaw-Droppers
This video of YouTuber Al Zh demonstrating his working six-cylinder engine made of paper is a real WOW. I can only imagine the amount of patience that went into this complicated little build. And how many iterations do you think he had to go through to get to this point? I get paper cuts just […]
Bet You Can’t Find a Use for This 11-Million-to-1 Gearbox
Puzzle inventor Oskar van Deventer has come up with a solution that doesn’t yet have a problem. The solution is a 11,373,076:1 gearbox.
Fantastically Functional Lego Mechanical Loom
A few years ago mechanical engineer Nicolas Lespour created a fantastically functional Lego mechanical loom, and now he’s back with a smaller, faster, version, as well as building instructions!
Using Scooters and Go-Karts to Disrupt Engineering Education
Charles Guan has an “undying desire to create that which should not be created”, like his treaded skateboard (called LandBearShark). For the last two years, he has been sharing his fabrication knowledge with MIT engineering students as an instructor in a disruptive course that he created, which requires that they build and race a custom electric vehicle.
My 10 Favorite Mechanical Animations from Wikipedia
My ten favorite mechanical animations from Wikipedia.
View from Inside a Running 4-stroke Engine
Ever wonder what was going on inside your car engine, but were too afraid to open up a hole and just look?
