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Episodes generally consist of two four-person teams in competition, plus one or two hosts who usually consult with an "expert" judge who knows something about non-[[junk]] versions of the machines being constructed. Each team consists of three regular members, plus a fourth expert who usually has a better understanding of the class of machine being constructed for that episode.

The challenges are many and varied, but usually involve teams constructing a machine to undertake a particular challenge. Challenges usually involve understanding of a particular scientific priciple e.g. [[ballistics]], [[navigation]] etc.

The idea for the show came from a scene in the movie ''[[Apollo 13 (movie)|Apollo 13]]'', where [[NASA]] engineers had only a short period of time to construct an air filter out of parts available on the space capsule.