Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

Adding a wood stove fan to your stove can help distribute warm air throughout your home. We tested various fans over a 3-week ...

Making furniture from wood pallets is trending nowadays and very cheap. Pallets have been around for decades as mechanisms ...

Wood can be the material of choice for many kinds of projects, but it often falls out of the running in favor of metal or plastic if it needs to take a threaded fastener. But with a little ingenuity ...

A lever is a simple mechanism that uses a bar to pivot around a fixed point called a fulcrum. Levers can be joined together to form linkages. Simple linkages can be used to change the direction of ...