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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.

2 mo on HN

How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

Tesla Model 3's motor - The Brilliant Engineering behind it

Sabin Civil Engineering
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN

EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown

EEVblog
2 HN recommender · 2016–2017
2 mo on HN

The 3D-Printed Curta Calculator

Adam Savage’s Tested
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HN

Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN

What Is A Rotating Detonation Engine - And Why Are They Better Than Regular Engines

Scott Manley
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car - Jay Leno's Garage

Jay Leno's Garage
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HN

High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder

Dan Gelbart
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

Tesla Valve Explained With Fire

NightHawkInLight
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HN

The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 9 - Making The Epicyclic Pin and Slot Gearing

Clickspring
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN

This Arcade Game is a SCAM (I have proof)

Mark Rober
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HN

British Airways Boeing 747-400 in D-Check

JDProductions INC.
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
1 mo on HN

World's First Human-Powered Ornithopter

OrnithopterProject
1 HN recommend · 2012–2026
1 mo on HN

Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is)

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

See in complete darkness with touch

Stuff Made Here
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HN

How the pantorouter works

MatthiasWandel
1 HN recommend · 2014–2020
1 mo on HN

I put Koenigsegg’s freevalve tech on a Miata... It runs and drives!

Wesley Kagan
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HN

Rockwell Retro Encabulator

rlcarnes
1 HN recommend · 2010–2025
1 mo on HN

BMW's Hydrogen V12 Engine Is A Hilarious Engineering Stunt

Engineering Explained
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

The Future of the Internal Combustion Engine - /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG

The Drive
1 HN recommend · 2014–2018
1 mo on HN

A simple water heater is more clever than it seems

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

AK47 (AKM): Mud Test

InRangeTV
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

Computational Design of Mechanical Characters

DisneyResearchHub
1 HN recommend · 2013–2025
1 mo on HN

The step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

AMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?

Mystery History
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
1 mo on HN

Elon Musk Explains SpaceX's Raptor Engine!

Everyday Astronaut
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HN

Surface Plate Calibration and Conditioning

oxtoolco
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HN

Can you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press

Hydraulic Press Channel
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HN

strandbeest evolution

theo jansen
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HN

What keeps a train on the track?

BoreMeScience
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HN

AR15: Mud Test

InRangeTV
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

TMS Bicycle, stable without gyros or trail (TMS=two-mass-skate)

Arend Schwab
2 HN recommender · 2013–2019
1 mo on HN

Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths

Stuff Made Here
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Bel Air Crash Test | Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HN

ROTATING DETONATION ENGINE

Integza
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025