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.
Watch Bose's incredible electromagnetic car suspension system in action
A short CNET demo of Bose's electromagnetic active suspension, which gave a very smooth ride but never reached the market.
Double Pendulum on a Cart
A TU Vienna demo of a double inverted pendulum on a cart, using constrained feedforward and optimal feedback control for swing-up and point-to-point motion.
Egg Drop From Space
Mark Rober and Joe Barnard drop an egg from a high-altitude balloon, using a camera-guided glider to steer it to a safe landing.
How the 737 MAX 10 landing gear works
A short Boeing-supplied clip where the 737 MAX program's chief project engineer explains how the lengthened landing gear of the MAX 10 folds up.
XRS-2200 Linear Aerospike Engine Test fire at NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC)
A short test firing of the XRS-2200 linear aerospike engine at NASA Stennis Space Center, which was designed for the cancelled X-33 VentureStar.
Marble adding machine
Matthias Wandel shows his wooden machine that adds binary numbers using marbles.
[842] Picked in 2 Seconds! Amazon’s Choice “High Security Padlock”
LockPickingLawyer picks an Amazon's Choice 'high security' padlock in about two seconds.
Explosive Bat: crushing MLB records. Ft: Smarter Every Day
Stuff Made Here builds a powder-actuated baseball bat designed to hit a ball past Babe Ruth's record distance, with Smarter Every Day contributing.
Kraut Space Magic: the H&K G11
Forgotten Weapons examines the Heckler & Koch G11, a West German experimental rifle built around a caseless cartridge.
Danny MacAskill Tests Santa Cruz Reserve Carbon Wheels
Danny MacAskill tries to destroy carbon fiber bike wheels by riding trials tricks through downtown Glasgow, including on bare rims on concrete.
GE Walking Truck - Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (CAM) 1969.
Short footage of the General Electric Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine, or Walking Truck, a 1960s quadruped vehicle operated by a human driver using hydraulic limbs.
Railroad tank car vacuum implosion
A brief demonstration of a railroad tank car imploding after a vacuum is pulled with its safety valves disabled.
How a Diesel-Electric Locomotive Works
A 3D-animated walkthrough of a heavy-haul diesel-electric freight locomotive, covering the frame, coupling, draft gear, engine and drive systems.
Triple Pendulum on a Cart
A TU Wien control-systems demo in which a triple pendulum on a cart is swung up and stabilized using constrained feedforward plus optimal feedback control.
ATLAS AGENA ROCKET DEPRESSURIZES ON PAD, COLLAPSES AND TEARS ITSELF TO PIECES
A one-minute clip of an Atlas Agena rocket losing pressure on the pad and collapsing.
[844] No Picking Required: Amazon’s Defective Choice
A LockPickingLawyer video showing that a padlock sold as an Amazon's Choice high-security product can be opened trivially, with no picking needed.
An elevator that actually goes sideways
Tom Scott visits ThyssenKrupp's test tower in Rottweil to see the Multi, a rope-free elevator that uses linear motors to move cabins sideways as well as vertically.
Turbo Encabulator
A short comedy video of the Turbo Encabulator, a piece of technobabble nonsense describing an imaginary machine in deadpan engineering language.
Boeing 737NG horizontal stabilizer jackscrew cycle
A short clip shows the horizontal stabilizer jackscrew of a Boeing 737NG cycling through its motion.
Everything About Grain Bins (Farmers are Geniuses) - Smarter Every Day 218
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day explores how grain bins work and the engineering and know-how involved in farming.
Adam Savage's Spot Robot Rickshaw Carriage!
Adam Savage builds a Victorian-style rickshaw carriage for Boston Dynamics' Spot robot to pull, with him riding as passenger.