Every season of The Secret Life of Components ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of The Secret Life of Components!

Explores chains and belts, including demonstrations of different types of roller chain, round and toothed belts

Chain and Belts

LED history, brightness and color, use in diorama, addressable LED strips, and power LEDs for home lighting

LEDs

An overview of different types of hinges and their usage around the home and in machinery.

Hinges

An overview on how electrical switches work, and how to use microswitches for sensing and power switching in projects.

Switches

Explores springs, their manufacture, properties, and several different types of springs with their use cases

Springs

A wide variety of connectors are shown and their operation explained, including their benefits, drawbacks and how they may be used in equipment

Connectors

Explores different types of glue, their properties and uses

Glue

A wide variety of bearings, bushes, and races are explained with their uses and properties including materials and lubrication

Bearings

Explores use of various sensor and feedback devices.

Sensors

Explanations and demonstrations of levers, linkages, cranks, crankshafts, cams and capstans.

Linkages & Mechanisms

Exploration of principles, properties and control of electric motors, particularly focussing on DC varieties.

Motors

Creation, usage, and troubleshooting of varieties of screw threads.

Screw Threads

Principles and processes of using prototypes of various forms in the creation of a final work.

Prototypes

Basic principles of pneumatic cylinders, pressure and units, air compressors, regulators, valves, vacuum, and low pressure pneumatics.

Pneumatics

Explanations and demonstrations of uses of solenoids and relays

Solenoids & Relays

Demonstrations and examples of various drilling and other hole cutting methods

Hole Cutting

Demonstrations and uses of programmable logic controllers (PLCs)

PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers)

Gears

Coinciding with the release of the remastered original episodes of The Secret Life Of Machines, Tim Hunkin began a self-produced spiritual successor called The Secret Life of Components.

It explores some of the individual parts that so often make up the appliances and machines that were the focus of the original series.

The weekly episodes included what Hunkin has learned through his experience with the component, along with many models for demonstration and examples from his amusement machines and other works.

The Best Seasons of The Secret Life of Components

The Best Seasons of The Secret Life of Components

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3