Shane Wighton
Engineer, YouTube Creator
Shane Wighton is the creative and engineering mind behind the popular YouTube channel, Stuff Made Here. Since 2020, Wighton has dedicated himself to building complex machines in hopes of exposing a mass audience to the joy of engineering.
In 2024, Wighton was awarded an IMI Award and a $50,000 prize for his video, “A simple human task that's insanely hard for a robot.”

Award Winners Panel
Become an IMI member and hear what Alan Becker, Ronald Young Jr, Natalie Lynn, PJ Vogt, Peter Santenello, Shane Wighton, and Brandon Stanton have to say about their work and why they create

Shane Wighton is the creative and engineering mind behind the popular YouTube channel, Stuff Made Here. Since 2020, Wighton has dedicated himself to building complex machines in hopes of exposing a mass audience to the joy of engineering.
In 2024, Wighton was awarded an IMI Award and a $50,000 prize for his video, “A simple human task that's insanely hard for a robot.”