Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong" This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating... continue reading
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Disney researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that seemingly makes it far easier to make an actor appear younger or older in a scene. While artists will still be able to make manual... continue reading
posted by simonm 1 year 5 months ago • 418 views • 6:48From YouTubbe, "I challenge myself to combine a hydraulic jack, a scissor jack, a trailer jack, and a high lift jack all into one. Oh, and I want to add a vise to it. I fabricate this king of jacks and... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 3 weeks ago • 113 views • 34:28This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 516 views • 4:57The wet season started and so fire related projects are harder to do. So I planted this years crop of yams using a different technique. The stones covering the mounds protect the yams from predators such... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 470 views • 6:48"Elevator. It’s a fascination and a fear for many. Countless action movies and TV shows feature stuck elevators, fights in elevators, and, of course falling elevators. How many times when an elevator... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 219 views • 7:36A few Scottish friends go snowboarding for the first time and have a bit of trouble with the surface lifts. Eventually invents a new way to go up the ski slope. Source: Scottish Craic facebook page.
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 359 views • 2:32YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading
posted by nanrod 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 524 views • 9:05YouTube description: A simple demonstration of the learning ability of a monitor lizard. If you're curious about how they get back into the enclosure, when they need to bask to warm up again they... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 294 views • 6:27I've filmed a paternoster lift; I've filmed the strange Genoa elevator that sort-of goes sideways. So when I got an email from Thyssenkrupp, an elevator company, saying "come and see our Multi elevator... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,308 views • 4:21The Magnus effect is an amazing phenomena: It can lift rotating objects up into the air, seemingly defeating gravity. Bruce Yeany brought out a cool video showing how to make flyers from paper cups... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 583 views • 6:40I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 419 views • 11:27In this video, we explore the helicopter speed limit, dissymmetry of lift, and what causes retreating blade stalls.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 709 views • 4:15YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 811 views • 14:23I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It's roughly parallel with the tiled hut and wattle and daub hut that are a couple of hundred meters away down in a valley. I built it on a ridge to get away from... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 567 views • 4:17Tom Scott: "Continuing the occasional Weird European Infrastructure Tour: an Italian lift that switches direction from horizontal to vertical. And honestly, until someone pointed it out to me, I could... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 704 views • 2:29I made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don’t know its name. It has been raining a lot here lately (the video also shows how well the hut... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years ago • 639 views • 4:48Uploaded on Apr 11, 2011 We shot this film a few years ago for the company Mammoet. It shows how they moved the BP Clair module on to a barge.
posted by bobknight33 8 years 2 months ago • 287 views • 8:15Derek Muller from Veritasium lifts a gyroscopic fly wheel above his head.
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