how its made

Watch How Balls of Steel Are Made

If there’s something more satisfying than watching hyper-specific machinery churn out random parts, I haven’t found it yet. In this behind the scenes video, one of Shandong Iraeta’s factories tirelessly turns giant rods of metal into perfectly spherical balls of steel. At one point in the process, the steel balls, which are used in rotating…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Sep 21

The Process of Making Matches Is Surprisingly Goopy

Making matches at a factory involves some staggering numbers: two million splints an hour get fed into a perforated steel plate so that they can be ready to get dipped in the red lighter material, 500 boxes of matches get made per minute to house the matches, and 200 matches are processed per second. It’s…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 16

How Graphene Is Made

It’s so interesting to watch the magic material that is graphene get made, because you can’t really see a damn thing. It’s totally transparent and only one atom thick, so it’s basically creating invisibility with the help of other materials. A copper foil sheet is used, along with argon gas, in a furnace to drive…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 20

How Frozen Pizza Pockets Are Made

Why do pizza pockets exist? No one knows. But everyone secretly enjoys them. Not on the same level as a pizza obviously (I mean, what does anyone enjoy more than pizza) but there’s definitely a nostalgia kick to eating a vaguely pizza-flavored, mini-calzone hot pocket of sorts. Here’s how one brand puts them together. I…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 25

Here’s How Those Big Store Signs Are Made

Here’s how channel signs—basically those big signs that hang above stores and restaurants across the world—are made. The Science Channel gives us a sneak of the way things are done and it’s surprising that so much of it still requires the help of a human. It’s not all robots! And it’s actually a lot more…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 2

How Whoopie Pies Are Made

Whoopie pies are lovely and delightful because they’re big ass freaking Oreos that are fluffy and moist and all sorts of yummy. They’re sort of like a cake but also kind of like a cookie but yet for some reason, they’re called a pie. However you want to describe it, you can’t really go wrong…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 11

Video: How Nutcrackers Are Made from Blocks of Wood

How are those decorative little devils that are nutcrackers made? It involves a lot of wood, a bit a time on various lathes, a lot of glue, and a bit of artistry. Here’s the behind the scenes look of how those wooden dolls are put together. It’s actually pretty neat to see octagonal blocks of…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 23

Video: How Candy Canes Are Made

A helluva lot of sugar and a helluva lot of machinery. That’s what it takes to make candy canes and it’s very close to being a magical process, as taking something as large as what candy canes start at and shaping it down to the classic skinny hook is so very impressive. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 22

Video: The brown sludge that is mass producing brownies

Brownies are absolutely delicious and probably one of my favorite things in the whole world. It’s a wonderful little treat. What’s not wonderful? When you mass produce them and have to pour buckets of ingredients to mix them up to create a oozy brown sludge that can be baked. Oh well, at least they’ll still…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 15

How a little toy dinosaur is made

There’s a lot of work—and so many different materials used—in making a little toy dinosaur. But once you get the casting right, you can make the dinos forever. Here’s how it goes: the figurine is first hand drawn, then digitally drawn, then re-created in wax. After that, the figure is doused in silicone, buried in…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 24

Watch the sorcery that is making nonstick frying pans

You melt down the aluminum alloy ingots, pour it into a funny shaped die, shave it and sand it down, sand blast it, get shot with plasma flame melting powder, mix up dozens of chemicals and thousands of diamond particles for the coating shower, get applied with the final non stick layer and get baked…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 5

Video: How processed deli meat is made

Though it might look like some sort of condom testing or water balloon making, what you’re actually looking at is bologna being made. The natural casing gets fitted over a stuffing horn and filled with a meat mixture of beef, pork and seasoning. It’s then smacked with a spike and smoked until it comes out…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 22

How The Thing’s gross defibrillator chest chomp scene was made

John Carpenter’s The Thing is a masterclass on the use of practical effects. The makeup effects team worked for seven days a week for 57 weeks to create the realistic alien creatures, gore, and viscera we see on the film. This neat video by Cinefix explains how they made it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Apr 16

This is how artists create their fascinating infinite loop GIFs

We’ve previously featured the fascinating and yet disturbing black and white animations by Kevin Weir. This interesting short documentary shows how his creative process works: From finding the old black and white pictures to the animation of his perfect loops. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Apr 10

Video: The process of making a couch is surprisingly fun to watch

Danny Cooke’s short How Comfort Is Born shows the entire process of making an Arlo & Jacob couch. You see wood being framed, springs being made, framed wood being shaved, made springs being put together and then finally the cushions and fabric carefully being handled so each couch is perfect. The machinery and people that…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 1

How the addictive magic material known as bubble wrap is made

You can have your graphene or your insane non-flammable fabricor some NASA space material, magic material to me will always be bubble wrap. It’s catnip for humans with souls and the process to make it is pretty fascinating. It starts with resin that is vacuumed out and heated to create a film and used to…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 6

Seeing peanut butter jars get filled makes me want peanut butter on tap

Though Alton Brown taught us how to simply make our own delicious peanut butter at home, sometimes you just crave that store bought goop that reminds you of your childhood. Here’s how that brown spread is made. I kind of wish I could skip the jar and just have a peanut butter on tap at…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 2

This mesmerizing machine rolls and unrolls condoms

It’s like watching an orchestra. One arm of the machine maintains a gentle yet precise grip on the condom, swooping down and up on the metal rod. Another brushes the rubber while the machine in the back sucks it back in for packaging. It’s a never ending cycle. One day we will make a How…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 13

These beige bars somehow turn into frozen fish sticks

Hmm, frozen fish sticks sure start off looking suspiciously like the protein blocks from Snowpiercer and you know how that turned out (if you watched the movie). But this is all fish! Minced cod, to be exact. The frozen blocks of fish supposedly trap the flavor and are presumably more efficient to ship. Apparently, one…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 25

This Ramen Is Made By a Machine That Takes Up The Length of a Room

A noodle is a noodle is a noodle—right? No way, dude. Though the ingredients are few, the process to make ramen is nuanced. It can (obviously) be done by hand, but Sun Noodle HQ has the help of a long machine that mixes dough into balls, flattens it into sheets, rolls it like toilet paper,…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Jul 16

how its made

Watch How Balls of Steel Are Made

The Process of Making Matches Is Surprisingly Goopy

How Graphene Is Made

How Frozen Pizza Pockets Are Made

Here’s How Those Big Store Signs Are Made

How Whoopie Pies Are Made

Video: How Nutcrackers Are Made from Blocks of Wood

Video: How Candy Canes Are Made

Video: The brown sludge that is mass producing brownies

How a little toy dinosaur is made

Watch the sorcery that is making nonstick frying pans

Video: How processed deli meat is made

How The Thing’s gross defibrillator chest chomp scene was made

This is how artists create their fascinating infinite loop GIFs

Video: The process of making a couch is surprisingly fun to watch

How the addictive magic material known as bubble wrap is made

Seeing peanut butter jars get filled makes me want peanut butter on tap

This mesmerizing machine rolls and unrolls condoms

These beige bars somehow turn into frozen fish sticks

This Ramen Is Made By a Machine That Takes Up The Length of a Room

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