Everyday mechanics
拆開看看 Cutaway
@拆開看看cutaway
Toilets, sink traps, pin locks, zippers, nail clippers. Things that work on physics alone, no plug.
Watch on YouTubeThree YouTube Shorts channels · cutaway posters · mechanism animations
We cut open the things
you use every day
A toilet usually has no motor, yet one push empties the bowl. Water in a pressure cooker only boils at about 120 °C. Each short takes apart one machine as a moving cutaway, so you see how it works in about half a minute.
Three channels
One way of drawing, three subjects.
Kitchen physics
Kitchen why
@kitchen-why
The cup of water in a rice cooker, the 120 °C inside a pressure cooker, water drops skating on a very hot pan.
Watch on YouTube
Weapon mechanisms in history
weapon work
@weaponwork
Matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap: how ignition changed over the centuries. Mechanism and history animation only, no operating or making instructions.
Watch on YouTubeCutaway posters, the first six
The same cutaway from each short, without the readouts and captions: just the drawing and a one-line title. 3000 × 5333 PNG, digital download, NT$150 (about US$5). Prints to A3 (it is 9:16, so an A3 frame leaves margins at the sides), or use it as a phone wallpaper.
拆開看看 Cutaway
Toilet siphon
Usually no motor. Just one bent pipe.
NT$150 · digital download
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Sink trap
One bend of water keeps the sewer smell out.
NT$150 · digital download
Buy download
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Pin tumbler lock
Only the right key lines up all five pins.
NT$150 · digital download
Buy download
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Zipper
A Y-shaped channel hides inside the slider.
NT$150 · digital download
Buy download
weapon work
Flintlock
One strike makes the spark and opens the pan.
NT$150 · digital download
Buy download
Kitchen why
Pressure cooker
Water inside only boils at about 120 °C.
NT$150 · digital download
Buy download
Checkout is on Portaly (the page is in Chinese). The download link shows right after payment and is emailed to you. Illustrative cutaways, simplified for clarity. Personal use only, no resale or commercial use.
Teaching packComing soon
Everyday machines for middle-school physics classes: cutaways, short animations for the classroom projector, and a one-page handout. Leave your email and we will write once, the day it is out.
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Turn your machine or patent into an animation like this
The same cutaway method as the channels: open up the mechanism, show one movement at a time, readable with the sound off. Fixed format, and the total price is set before you order, so you know what you get and it does not go up later.
Order by email Or write to contact@ultralab.tw with the machine name and how it moves.- Length
- 30 to 60 seconds, vertical 9:16
- Delivery
- 3 working days after we have your materials
- Price
- From NT$12,000 (about US$380), total set before you order
- Changes
- One round included
- Labels
- Sources on screen, illustrative parts marked
- You send
- Photos, drawings or a patent number, plus one sentence on how it moves