Category: Manufacturing

  • Manufacturing color crayons

    In our series of videos about how things are manufactured, here comes a colorful one: Crayons.

  • A Chevy VOLT manufactured in 2 minutes

    The electric car from Chevrolet, like the new VOLT, is manufactured like nearly any other cars. Let’s see how. YouTube link

  • Inside a 4-stroke piston engine

    You certainly know the basic principles of the operation of a 4-stroke engine with its different phases: piston going down to suck gas and air in piston going up to compress the mixture piston going down pushed by the explosion piston going up to push burnt gas out of the cylinder Let’s admire the actual…

  • How babies are made

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  • International Space Station in motion

    International Space Station in motion

    The International Space Station is the product of a complex assembly process out of elements brought upt here by rockets and the space shuttle. Here is a video animation from USA today showing the sequence of events in this build-up.

  • Manufacturing of electronic boards

    Some of you may know that I work in the electronics industry (for automotive applications) with Johnson Controls. This is the reason why I am in daily contact with industrial means of manufacturing of complex electronic boards. For a long time now, I wanted to share some of the knowledge I acquired, some of the…

  • Zoom into steel

    Visit the infinitely small as we zoom right into steel. Zoom into Steelpar Weird_Weird_Science

  • How to cut a forest down

    We don’t use this in France (storms are enough to bring a forest to the ground) but here is the real hardware you need to cut down a forest in a few days only: Link to YouTube

  • How do you make a globe

    In our short series of “How do you make…”, here is the industrial manuacturing of terrestrial globes How would you do it? The same way as described here? YouTube link Note: I said globe, not blog… 🙂