HiddenWorkingsExplained

How does a microwave actually heat your food? Why is the back of your fridge warm? How does Wi-Fi get through walls?

Hidden Workings explains the everyday machines you use without thinking. Each video starts from something you've noticed and asks you to guess what's going on. It shows why the usual explanation is wrong, then opens the machine up, from the real thing to a cutaway to a clean diagram, until you can predict what it will do.

Every number is sourced. Each video's description lists its sources and says what was simplified on purpose.

How the videos are made: researched from primary sources and fact-checked claim by claim, written to a teaching plan, and drawn and animated as flat technical illustrations. Narration is a text-to-speech voice.

Website: https://hidden-workings.pages.dev/
Every explainer, written out with its sources, plus a guessing game and a map of the ideas the machines share.