This is a video of a machine that was created with one job and one job only: to balance a bowling ball on a spool without it rolling off either side, constantly adjusting itself to keep the ball right on top. Not bad, but if it can’t also hula hoop

Because you don’t know until you try, this is a video of a giant dragonfly inspired R/C ornithopter (an aircraft that achieves flight by flapping its wings) taking to the skies. I’ll be honest: when I first saw that thing I thought there’s no way it’s getting off the ground,

This is a video demonstration of MIT’s ‘LaserFactory’, a laser cutter that’s been modified into an fabrication platform capable of producing functional devices. In this video, it cuts the pieces necessary to build a drone, then pours silver into the circuit traces, attaches its electronic components, solders the silver in

Because there’s a Youtube channel inside of everyone, you just have to search your soul (or Harbor Freight Tools) this is a video from Youtuber Sander VS of an industrial belt sander sanding a giant jawbreaker, Rubik’s Cube, and golf ball. I still remember the first and only time I

This is a video from Valencia, Spain of a front end loader with an orange harvesting attachment spreading its cape around an orange tree planted on the sidewalk and shaking and catching the fruit as it falls. Well, some of it at least. Apparently these particular orange trees produce fruit

This is a short mesmerizing video of chicken wire being made. What a cool piece of specialized machinery. I was so entranced by the time I snapped out of it I’d already watched for twenty-five minutes straight and now my legs are numb and I’m afraid to stand up from

This is a video tour of the incredibly impressive full-size pinball machine built out of K’Nex by Youtuber Tyler Bower. The machine stands 7-feet tall, 5-feet long, 3-feet wide, has automatic scoring and nine unique features including ramps, trap doors, multiball, and a mini pinball playfield. Three motors (including a

This is a video from Chris Meyer, project manager at Turner Construction Company, which was hired to help with the renovation of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on the school’s campus in Newhaven, Connecticut, of an excavator with its jaw attachment very appropriately painted like a dinosaur head