This is a video of Mark Rober discussing and demonstrating the five-years-in-the-making robot he and his team built that’s capable of setting up a record-breaking 100,000 dominos in 24 hours. For reference, it takes an experienced team of seven a full week to set up the same number of dominos,
This is a clip from the Discovery Channel’s ‘How It’s Made’ detailing how balloons are manufactured. So, if you were ever wondering how balloons are born, watch and be amazed. I imagine it’s relatively similar to how condoms are made, but with far less stringent quality control standards, which is
This is a video from Business Insider detailing the process by which Dutch company Fruitleather makes vegan leather from mangoes that didn’t pass quality control from a fruit importer (which they get for free!). The process basically involves removing the seeds, pureeing the fruit and introducing a proprietary mix of
This is a video of maker of things The Q using math to construct an elliptical pool table that sinks every shot from a spray painted dot on the table, provided you hit the ball hard enough and not just barely tap it to prove him wrong and win a
This is a video of physicist and origami artist Robert J. Lang explaining and teaching origami based on five different levels of difficulty, starting with child, then moving to teen, college student, graduate student, and expert. Are those actually logical skill levels to define? I mean I have a master’s
This is a very impressively designed LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) module built by Youtuber NDL-GBC featuring minifigs shootings the balls like basketballs thanks to their spring legs — real LEGO minifig pieces that were made in the early 2000’s for basketball themed sets. Very clever, and about 90% of
This is a timelapse video created by Chris Fastie using a 3D printed ‘digital’ sundial invented by Julien Coyne, which displays the time (from 10AM to 4PM) dot-matrix style with rays of light, changing every 20 minutes as the sun moves through the fine matrix of holes inside. Some more
Because sometimes a dinky paring knife just isn’t going to cut it *ba dum tss* this is a video of metalworker and Youtuber Faraway Forge crafting a giant gyutu chef’s knife out of what appears to be an automotive leaf spring. The whole process was pretty satisfying to watch. As