PickVidsBest Mechanical & precision engineering Videos
The 141 Mechanical & precision engineering videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 22 intermediate, 106 for a general viewer, and 5 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, Veritasium, Stuff Made Here.
The step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines
Technology Connections takes apart the step-by-step electromechanical logic of a 1970s pinball machine.
AMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?
A short video of a man moving a 20 ton stone block by himself using wood and levers.
Elon Musk Explains SpaceX's Raptor Engine!
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut gets a close-up walkthrough of SpaceX's Raptor 2 engine from Elon Musk at Starbase.
Surface Plate Calibration and Conditioning
A look at how granite surface plates are inspected, calibrated and reconditioned using an autocollimator, a repeat meter and diamond-charged cast iron laps.
Can you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press
The Hydraulic Press Channel folds an A3 sheet of paper past the supposed seven-fold limit and then crushes it with a press.
strandbeest evolution
Theo Jansen shows many of his Strandbeests, wind-powered walking kinetic sculptures, set to Khachaturian's Spartacus.
What keeps a train on the track?
A short clip of Richard Feynman explaining how a train stays on its tracks, through the conical shape of wheels and how it handles curves without differentials.
AR15: Mud Test
InRangeTV subjects an AR-15 to a mud test in the same mud and location as a preceding AK-47 test.
TMS Bicycle, stable without gyros or trail (TMS=two-mass-skate)
Arend Schwab demonstrates a research bicycle, the two-mass-skate design, that balances itself without gyroscopic effects or trail.
Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths
Stuff Made Here designs and builds an "unpickable" lock, then calls in a locksmith to see if it can be defeated.
2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Bel Air Crash Test | Consumer Reports
A Consumer Reports and IIHS crash test pitting a 2009 Chevy Malibu against a 1959 Bel Air.
ROTATING DETONATION ENGINE
A hobbyist build-and-experiment video on rotating detonation engines (RDEs), where a continuous detonation wave spins around an annular chamber.
Lessons from a Can Opener
Technology Connections spends 22 minutes on the humble can opener and what its design shows about products and why people don't know what to look for.
The Life of a Bolt
Oracle Red Bull Racing follows a single front suspension bolt through its life, from sketch and drawing through machining, testing, assembly and racing.
A380 Blade Off Test
Footage of an Airbus A380 engine blade-off test, in which a fan blade is deliberately released at full thrust to show the engine contains the failure.
Crash Test 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air VS. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu (Frontal Offset) IIHS 50th Anniversary
An IIHS crash test pitting a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air against a 2009 Malibu in a frontal offset collision for the institute's 50th anniversary.
Hybrid Power Split Device. eCVT transmission.
A short animated explanation of the power split device in Toyota-style hybrids, a planetary gearset that works as an eCVT.
The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk'
A demo of the Cubli, a 15 cm cube that uses reaction wheels to jump up onto a corner, balance there and fall in a controlled way to move.
Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?
Short Curious Droid video on why NASA could not simply rebuild the Saturn V's Rocketdyne F-1 engine for the SLS boosters.
Making Money Flow: The MONIAC
A short demonstration of the MONIAC, Bill Phillips' hydro-mechanical economic computer, at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand museum.
Authorized Personnel Only - How to Start and Sync a 400,000 Watt Turbine Hydroelectric Generator
Chris Boden shows how an operator starts a large hydroelectric turbine generator and manually synchronizes it to the grid using a needle phase meter.
Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Refrigerated Cooling Suit!
Adam Savage and engineer Kipp Bradford build a compact wearable refrigeration system to keep Adam cool under costumes, modeled on the cooling unit in a NASA spacesuit simulator.
Controlled Demonstration of a Tank Trailer Vacuum Collapse by Wabash National
A controlled demonstration by Wabash National of a tank trailer collapsing under vacuum, staged at an industry expo.
Terry Davis Demos SimStructure (2016-08-25)
Terry Davis, author of TempleOS, demonstrates his SimStructure physics simulator and builds a PID controller using math from Numerical Recipes in C.