Necrobotics
Youth EngineeringAt Rice University in Houston, Texas, mechanical engineers have created dead spider robots!
Primitive Technology: Downdraft Kiln
Adults EngineeringA Phoenix kiln is a type of downdraft kiln where the firebox is below the ware chamber.
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Insulated Furnace
Adults EngineeringI made a furnace insulated with wood ash to smelt iron in. Furnace insulation stops heat being lost from the walls of a furnace and so increases the heat within the furnace.
Using Lasers To Disperse Ravens
Youth EngineeringChris uses one of the world's only remotely-fired lasers to safely disperse a gathering of thousands of ravens in the middle of the California desert.
How I Built My Prosthetic Arm With LEGO Bricks
Youth EngineeringThe genius engineering student was born without a right forearm, but now makes his own prosthetics using the creative power of LEGO bricks.
How To Design A Mars Rover
Kids EngineeringToday, the crew at The Fort learn about engineers and how they design different ways to solve problems like they did for the rovers exploring Mars!
Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design
Adults EngineeringI cleared an area as a workspace for making bricks, trialed a new source of clay for brick making and tested a new kiln variant that uses fewer bricks than the previous design.
How One Design Flaw Almost Toppled A Skyscraper
Youth EngineeringDig into the unique engineering of New York City’s Citicorp Center tower, and the design flaw that threatened to topple it.
Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
Adults EngineeringConcrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth.
How NASA Reinvented The Wheel
Adults EngineeringA huge thanks to everyone at NASA Glenn Research Center for having us at the SLOPE Lab, showing their work on this indestructible tire, and helping with the science and animation.
rimitive Technology: Decarburization of iron and forging experiments
Adults EngineeringI took a brittle, high carbon/iron alloy (cast iron) made from local ore and used a decarburization method to reduce it's carbon content making it malleable and forged it flat by hammering.
3D Printing With A Twist
Youth EngineeringA rotating nozzle that can print with multiple different materials at the same time has been used to print helix shapes with intriguing properties.
Tell Me About: Roller Coasters
Kids EngineeringEver wondered how roller coasters work? Or how they're built? Well hop on and go for a ride to find out.
Primitive Technology: Smelting Iron In Brick Furnaces
Adults EngineeringI made 3 furnaces from bricks using different configurations to test their effectiveness. The benefit of using bricks to make a furnace is that it's quicker, easier, re-useable and portable relative to a furnace constructed in-situ from clay.
Primitive Technology: Rock-Throwing Catapult (Trebuchet)
Adults EngineeringI built a trebuchet, a type of catapult that uses a counter weight to store gravitational potential energy which is then used to fire a projectile via a sling.
3D Printing With Drones
Youth EngineeringResearchers have mounted 3D printers onto drones with the aim of creating swarms of robots that could 3D print entire buildings.
Primitive Technology: Trebuchet
Adults EngineeringI built a trebuchet, a type of catapult that uses a counter weight to store gravitational potential energy which is then used to fire a projectile via a sling.
Primitive Technology: Improved Multi-Blade Blower
Adults EngineeringIn the 6 years since I developed the first forge blower I had made very few improvements to it's design.
Erika Bergman: Finding Aliens Underwater
Kids EngineeringErika combines her two great passions: engineering and underwater exploration.
Jumping Robot Leaps To Record Heights
Youth EngineeringA team of researchers has managed to design a device capable of leaping over 30 metres into the air.
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