Cover of a book titled 'Unhinged Engineering' with images of girls engaging in quirky engineering activities, including a mailbox on fire, a woman with an arm device, and a girl with a colorful block structure, set against a green grid background.

Ridiculous builds No One Asked For

Unhinged Engineering

By Emily The Engineer

Part chaos, part genius, Unhinged Engineering is a high-octane crash course in creative engineering. This isn’t a step-by-step manual. It’s a playground for chaotic engineering.

Coming Soon in 2027

Emily The Engineer, with long brown hair wearing a gray baseball cap and gray t-shirt sitting at a cluttered workbench in a workshop, surrounded by tools and materials.

@emilytheengineer

Emily Yarid

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Emily the Engineer is a viral sensation and mechanical engineer who makes wild inventions that are as clever as they are chaotic. With over 4 million followers across platforms, Emily brings a fresh, hilarious, and completely authentic voice to STEM. Her builds have been featured on Insider, Buzzfeed, and beyond, inspiring the next generation of makers to dream up big ideas--and test them with a glue gun, some PVC pipe, and a lot of duct tape.

  • ISBN 9798217308125

    Available on March 4th, 2027

    Published by DK

    Pages 224

    Dimensions 7-11/16 x 10-1/16

    Age Range 12 and up

  • Part chaos, part genius, Unhinged Engineering is a high-octane crash course in creative engineering. Whether she's building a remote-controlled trash can, launching a taco into space, or designing a robotic dog treat dispenser, Emily the Engineer proves that making things work often starts with breaking things first.

    In this energetic and wildly entertaining book, Emily opens her toolkit and her brain to reveal exactly how her projects go from idea to explosion (sometimes literally). Equal parts inspiration, instruction, and engineering mischief, this is the perfect book for future inventors, curious tinkerers, and anyone who's ever asked, "What would happen if...?

  • Emily the Engineer is a viral sensation and mechanical engineer who makes wild inventions that are as clever as they are chaotic. With over 4 million followers across platforms, Emily brings a fresh, hilarious, and completely authentic voice to STEM. Her builds have been featured on Insider, Buzzfeed, and beyond, inspiring the next generation of makers to dream up big ideas--and test them with a glue gun, some PVC pipe, and a lot of duct tape.

Unhinged Engineering book pages featuring improving a children’s toy in the most unnecessary way possible' features a man and a girl demonstrating a bubble launcher, with bubbles around them.

making things work often starts with breaking things .

Page from a comic-style educational poster showing how to build and understand a bubble launcher. The right side features a labeled sketch of a bubble launcher with annotations for its parts like oxygen input, soap reservoir, solenoid valve, trigger wire, and cheap bubble launcher (the victim). The left side includes colorful sticky notes with information about bubble launcher design, purpose, and instructions for building one, along with some doodles of explosions and bubbles.

Through CAD models, prototypes, catastrophic testing, and an alarming amount of confidence, Emily documents the full lifecycle of terrible ideas becoming slightly more functional terrible ideas.

A collage of images and text explaining the steps of creating a bubble gun, including images of a person testing a bubble gun setup, a person igniting a bubble solution, and a close-up of a homemade bubble gun device.