Explore the engineering of a car cigarette lighter through industrial CT scans, revealing an efficient analog design that operates without digital components.

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

    • DaGeek247@fedia.io
      4·
      3 months ago

      Same here. I was playing with the little cover thing, accidentally got it stuck, and the plastic handle started to melt off. Burnt the tips of my fingers trying to get it fixed.

      • ObsidianZed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I learned the hard way that

        1. it still worked even if the car was off and

        2. even if you pop it out early, perhaps thinking it’s not working, it can still be hot enough to burn you even if it isn’t red hot like you normally see it.