machines
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This Machine Weaves Chain Link Fences Like It’s Knitting A Jumper
Video: We were totally wrong in assuming that chain link fences were made by a warehouse full of people tirelessly bending wires with pliers. It turns out this giant machine does it all autonomously, bending, twisting and weaving wires like it’s making a giant metal jumper you never want to wear.
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Fun Photo Series Puts The Size Of Random Huge Objects In Perspective
Image Cache: This wonderful photo series comparing the size of things by Kevin Wisbith is a really fun way to earn some brain wrinkles, because it gives you a better sense of the true size of random buildings, ships, machines and other objects. You get to see things like the Death Star hover over Florida…
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Watch This Wacky Automated Breakfast Machine Make Eggs, Toast And Tea
Video: The most important meal of the day is also the most annoying to make because you’re groggy, in a rush and haven’t had your cup of coffee yet. Genius men Peter Browne and Mervyn Huggett solved that eternal problem of making breakfast by building a machine to, well, make breakfast for them. Yep, like…
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This Mechanical Beat Machine Filled With Random Things For Instruments Is So Fun
Video: I wish I could see more of the build process for artist Koka Nikoladze’s mechanical beat machines, but the little teasers of shaping springs, wires and wood in the video will have to do. In the end, the machines become adorably weird music boxes that are totally programmable and can “produce different kinds of…