Mechanical & precision engineering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (141)
Mechanical & precision engineering is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 141 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 375 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Mechanical engineering: machines, mechanisms, gears, precision design, flexures, hydraulics, thermodynamic machines, engineering failures, clever mechanical designs, how it works explainers.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937): “this video explaining differentials is from 1937 and is a marvel of pedagogy” — an HN commenter, 2019.
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2 mo on HNHow to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
2 mo on HNTesla Model 3's motor - The Brilliant Engineering behind it
2 mo on HNEEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
2 mo on HNThe 3D-Printed Curta Calculator
2 mo on HNForced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How
2 mo on HNWhat Is A Rotating Detonation Engine - And Why Are They Better Than Regular Engines
2 mo on HN1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car - Jay Leno's Garage
2 mo on HNHigh precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder
2 mo on HNTesla Valve Explained With Fire
2 mo on HNThe Antikythera Mechanism Episode 9 - Making The Epicyclic Pin and Slot Gearing
2 mo on HNThis Arcade Game is a SCAM (I have proof)
2 mo on HNBritish Airways Boeing 747-400 in D-Check
1 mo on HNWorld's First Human-Powered Ornithopter
1 mo on HNWhy it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is)
1 mo on HNSee in complete darkness with touch
1 mo on HNHow the pantorouter works
1 mo on HNI put Koenigsegg’s freevalve tech on a Miata... It runs and drives!
1 mo on HNRockwell Retro Encabulator
1 mo on HNBMW's Hydrogen V12 Engine Is A Hilarious Engineering Stunt
1 mo on HNThe Future of the Internal Combustion Engine - /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG
1 mo on HNA simple water heater is more clever than it seems
1 mo on HNChest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
1 mo on HNAK47 (AKM): Mud Test
1 mo on HNComputational Design of Mechanical Characters
1 mo on HNThe step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines
1 mo on HNAMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?
1 mo on HNElon Musk Explains SpaceX's Raptor Engine!
1 mo on HNSurface Plate Calibration and Conditioning
1 mo on HNCan you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press
1 mo on HNstrandbeest evolution
1 mo on HNWhat keeps a train on the track?
1 mo on HNAR15: Mud Test
1 mo on HNTMS Bicycle, stable without gyros or trail (TMS=two-mass-skate)
1 mo on HNMaking an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths
1 mo on HN2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Bel Air Crash Test | Consumer Reports
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