https://youtu.be/wlppif9IJzI In the 13th century, Genghis Khan embarked on a mission to take over Eurasia, swiftly conquering countries and drawing them into his empire. But, legend has it that there was one obstacle that even he couldn’t overcome: a towering wall of ice, grown by locals across a mountain pass. Learn more about how ancient cultures…… Continue reading Can You Grow a Glacier?
Tag: engineering
Squirrel Obstacle Course – Hilarious!
This man looked at squirrels defeating his anti-squirrel bird feeders, and turned them into quality entertainment.
Building a Giant Furry Electric Dog Car
https://youtu.be/LJEUyIpE9ms When eleven-year-old Alex designed her Giant Furry Electric Dog Car, the team at Kids Invent Stuff rose to the challenge of making it real. In this how-it’s-made video, makers Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown team up to weld, wire, staple, tape, glue, and screw together the canine-themed vehicle, complete with a huge wagging tail. Here’s the result of their month…… Continue reading Building a Giant Furry Electric Dog Car
How to Pass the Salt While Social Distancing
https://youtu.be/nORRgU8sGdE Teapots pour. Laptops slide. Apples roll. Ping pong balls hover. Mushrooms and carrots rotate into place. An amazing amount of intricate food-themed contraptions come together to Pass the Salt in this collaboration between quirky Rube Goldberg machine creator Joseph’s Machines and chain reaction YouTuber Sprice Machines. How did the screen-linked machine come together? A lot of fails and adjustments. Joseph…… Continue reading How to Pass the Salt While Social Distancing
What’s Inside? Tinkering Videos by Dina A. Amin
Cairo-based tinkerer and stop-motion filmmaker dina A. Amin created this short animation featuring four gadgets that she took apart piece by piece: A walkman, a phone, a hairdryer, and a camera. See them up close before they scatter into neatly arranged parts. It’s an extension of her Tinker Friday stop-motion animations.Tiny screws, wires, gears, levers, springs, circuit boards, buttons and bits.…… Continue reading What’s Inside? Tinkering Videos by Dina A. Amin
Building a Glitter Firing Saxophone
When five-year-old Benjamin designed his Glitter Firing Saxophone, the team at Kids Invent Stuff rose to the challenge of making it real. In this how-it’s-made video, makers Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown team up to design, print, and assemble the “Roald Dahl-esque” machine. You can submit your ideas for crazy inventions to their site, where they might select your idea. See it in action…… Continue reading Building a Glitter Firing Saxophone
Rolling Through the Bay – Scott Weaver
This nine foot tall wooden sculpture of San Francisco was made with glue and 105,387 and a half toothpicks. It was built by Scott Weaver who, stuck at home at the age of 14 with spinal meningitis, started working in earnest on the project and continued on it for 37 years. It has 10 different starting…… Continue reading Rolling Through the Bay – Scott Weaver
Uninami Strandbeest – Theo Jansen
A new design that hearkens to Theo Jansen‘s original kinetic structures from the early 1990s, the PVC tube-constructed Uminami Strandbeest doesn’t get sand into its joints and requires no lubrication to move smoothly. Watch as it speeds across the sand on a beach, presumably not far from Ypenburg in The Netherlands where Jansen lives and works.Desktop-sized Strandbeests are fun for all ages…… Continue reading Uninami Strandbeest – Theo Jansen
Inside a LEGO Minifig Factory
Go behind-the-scenes at LEGO’s Kladno, Czech Republic minifig factory where the specialized machines endlessly mold, jiggle, and stamp little plastic heads and bodies, completely assembling the company’s iconic minifigures. They even have machines that add the tiny hands into the tiny arms.As Bloomberg explained in 2015, “If considered a population, Lego minifigures would be the world’s largest group…… Continue reading Inside a LEGO Minifig Factory
Tinker Friday – Dina A. Amin
What’s inside an old optical mouse? How many pieces are they made from? How might they be reimagined? Cairo-based product designer dina A. Amin made a hobby from these questions, turning it into a delightful side project that she calls Tinker Friday. She writes:Every Friday I pick a random “about to be thrown away” product (from my growing collection of…… Continue reading Tinker Friday – Dina A. Amin
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