When making a toy excavator arm, or any robotic arm, the typical approach is to put motors at the joints, or if there isn’t room, to put the motors somewhere else and transfer the force using fishing ...

A 24-year-old operating a hydraulic shovel out of syringes has gone viral. The YouTube video, with a lot of spin offs, has over 300,000 views. On Reddit the video has 626 likes. Brazillian publication ...

Discover the impressive power of a miniature hydraulic press in this hands-on experiment. Watch as various fruits and a raw ...

Introduction Not even the strongest human could lift a truck into the air. Our brains, however, are smart enough to create a tool that can lift heavy objects for us: hydraulic lifts! You can find them ...

This video has been around for a few months, but I just came across it and it’s astounding. Check out this Brazilian teen’s scratch-built model backhoe. Using plastic syringes and silicon tubing, he’s ...

Syringes have all kinds of useful applications in the workshop, from injecting fluids to helping pick up tiny components. There’s always room for a bit of levity however, and [Tom Stanton] decided to ...