[RimstarOrg] has brought us an oldie but goodie this week. He’s built a ball bearing motor, a design which has been causing engineers and scientists to squabble for decades. [RimstarOrg] used a ...

To some clockmakers, this is a shame, as the escapement can be an elegant and mesmerizing piece of machinery, so [Brett] brought his rolling ball escapement to the exterior of this custom clock.

A number of slingshots believed to have been used in a spate of ball bearing attacks on cars, buildings and bus stops have ...

In this episode, he retells history from the focal point of the ball bearing, an apparatus used widely in engineering to reduce friction. The photo for this episode is of a bicycle, which relies ...

Rather, the bearing races — the bands or tracks in which the ball bearings sit and spin — begin to degrade, causing metal flakes to gunk up the grease. Regardless of the reason, a wheel ...

Despite the name, this isn’t agentic AI: It doesn’t have goals, and its powers are limited to answering whatever questions the user asks. You can set up the agent to execute basic commands through ...