Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch
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Thomas Thwaites dismantles a cheap toaster and tries to produce a handful of its materials himself. His device heats briefly before the element melts, separating assembly from sustained operation as acceptance criteria.
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that, inside this object, which I'd bought for just 3.49 pounds, there were 400 different bits made out of a hundred-plus different materials.And for about five seconds, the toaster toasted, but then, unfortunately, the element kind of melted itself.