God made a missnake, and Alan Pan is going to fix it. Alan tries to repair his reputation by creating mechanical legs for snakes.

posted by newtboy 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 274 views • 9:53

How do you rebuild one of the biggest spillways in the world after a catastrophic failure with the next flood season right around the corner? This video covers the engineering and construction required... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 280 views • 20:38

In this video we show you the new kind of artificial muscles that don't explode after puncture but just bleed without a visible decrease of performance. We also present our robotic arm. Since the last... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 155 views • 1:47

YouTube description: Delta Technical Operations in Atlanta fixes commercial jets for Delta and 150 customers, including the military and other airlines. The bustling operation runs 24-7, repairing everything... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 9 months ago • 951 views • 8:15

This pair is finally done, used all original nails on the heels and the waist. My favorite shoes, Florsheim

posted by BSR 3 years 12 months ago • 367 views • 58:23

YouTube description: The Citicorp Center repair is a classic engineering case study of how mistakes must be avoided in engineering and construction of public works. A skyscraper in New York City needed... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 12 months ago • 1,280 views • 8:24

YouTube description: As a little girl, Basma Hameed suffered a painful accident that left half of her face obscured by third-degree burns. She endured hundreds of surgeries and laser treatments to repair... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 477 views • 3:32

YouTube description: Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month ago • 1,047 views • 4:22

This is very much not how I remember it being reported around the time of the repair mission. I'm sure that at the time it was incorrectly reported as being due to the effect of grinding the mirror under... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,190 views • 7:52

YouTube description: These days, giant wind turbines are supplying more and more of our clean energy. And when they break down, they need to be fixed fast. It's a job only a few people are equipped... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 559 views • 5:44

YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 426 views • 9:15

I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the draw weight - safe to say greater than 15 kg... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 621 views • 5:54

The fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading

posted by enoch 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,844 views • 16:57

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Building strong children is easier than repairing broken adults. Why allow something to break only to try to fix... continue reading

posted by LukeForsyth455 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 17:43

This is the follow on to the first video---http://videosift.com/video/The-precision-repair-of-a-wooden-boat--- Here, he finishes off the bow of the boat. It's a beautiful piece of work, on a wooden... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 700 views • 3:45

There was something deeply satisfying about watching a true craftsman doing their thing. This was artisanal beyond my reckoning. I had no good ideas myself on how you'd find and reuse the same hidden... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 9 years 6 months ago • 1,045 views • 6:52

Pretty satisfying.

posted by nock 9 years 6 months 1 week ago • 816 views • 3:19