https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgWsFJScU8
I was able to rescue it entirely with editing! Rejoice.
This is the final version which I'll be releasing tomorrow. The two edits begin at about 1:16:25 and 1:28:00; I essentially just cut out the conjecture about color increasing the complexity/bandwidth of sensors, because that appears to be completely false, and moved the rest of the CCD talk into the ...
2024-06-26 20:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to an attentive viewer, I have been informed that I got the entire explanation of Bayer color filters wrong in the gray scanner video. This does a tremendous amount of damage to the narrative and I will probably have to reshoot a big chunk of it. Just wanted to let you know, in case anybody else notices it and wants to point it out; there will be a new version of the video sometime in the next couple days.
Thanks go out to that viewer and everyone else who has corrected me over ...
I absolutely did not intend for this to be an hour and forty minutes long but once I got to a certain point it just didn't make sense for it to be any shorter. It's basically two videos, but the thing doesn't make sense without the history and the history isn't meaningful without the thing, and then in order to explain the history I had to explain how three-tube video cameras work, so. Here you go. It took way, way, way too long to create and I'm sure I'll find even more errors and have to ma...
2024-06-25 15:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Haven't really done vlog style stuff in eons, didn't know if anyone would be interested, but I had a project to do yesterday and I figured it was a chance to talk at length about the whole OPS situation. That's been developing positively - I now have four of the modules and a fifth on the way, and two compatible TVs (thanks to Brandon and Kilian! not sure if either of you are patrons lol.) I'm definitely at a point where I could make a video about these things, but I know it's gonna be months...
2024-06-12 02:43:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, this is the finished version of little guys 8 which I'll be releasing tomorrow; I made a few adjustments and reshot a couple segments.
Mostly I just wanted to let you know that it might be a bit before I make another "proper" video. Daria is dealing with a minor health problem that's nonetheless going to persist for a few weeks during which I won't really be able to do much at the studio. Thanks for sticking around!
2024-06-09 19:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This one was a slog; I find the topic absolutely fascinating, but perhaps as a result I struggled really hard to make it come out right. I shot this episode two months ago, then proceeded to shoot two more littles guy after that (hence why I uploaded episodes 7 and 8 without a 6; this was 6) but it just... stuck in my craw. I did not like the energy of it, so I reshot it a few weeks later. I hated the energy of that one too, so I reshot it again a couple days ago. I hated the en...
2024-05-26 18:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWROEp3GHp4
Another side channel video. Hopefully nobody minds the Patreon notifications; these are definitely lower quality than my typical output but idk, I figure a lot of people just like hearing me talk.
2024-05-25 18:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVcLDsDi0w
This one didn't go the way I wanted it to so it's not fit for a main channel video but I figured it was fit for a side channel release. gl;hf!
2024-05-22 20:50:34 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbDgSgHfcZw
This took SO MUCH LONGER THAN I EXPECTED and I made SO MANY MISTAKES.
Let it be known that I almost screwed up incredibly bad by trying to squeeze this whole process in at the end of the previous video. I was convinced, for some reason, that it would take like 45 minutes tops to mod this thing and that I could just do it in the office and ta...
2024-05-19 06:53:11 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjrcB2qMbYU
I'll give this a proper title later, but: at long last, part two of the NiveusMedia saga arrives! And it's not quite the end, either; there will be a third video a bit later, but that one's a surprise. :)
2024-05-04 00:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbZNu0wasA
This one pretty much speaks for itself - I had a bunch of corrections and additions in re: the last video, enough for a whole video on its own. It actually ended up being pretty fun!
2024-04-30 00:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5hYhdxIuk
I'd be lying if I said I didn't make this in response to another video but I'll take the specifics to my grave.
This computer is genuinely incredibly cool and I love it. It was also backbreaking to produce, so: please enjoy!
2024-04-07 06:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFSlkQS31n8
In which I disassemble a cop-puter. Not the loveliest subject but the machine has a few interesting qualities. There's one significant correction I have to add before release, which is that the spring mechanism is clearly meant to press the CPU against the heatsink; very odd!
"Where's episode 6?" I decided to reshoot it but I already had a bunch of folder...
2024-03-24 20:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs
Coming up with a thumbnail or title for this one is gonna be fun. I have no idea how to foreshadow any of this nonsense concisely, this computer has two egregious hacks that defy most brief explanations. I'll figure it out after the weekend I guess.
I'm pretty sure this is a new record for "longest anticapitalist screed" for my channel, but the t...
2024-03-21 03:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostLittle Guys: Ep 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEz3E0k9F8
Little Guys: Ep 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEHKo8M_FMg
Bonus "Purr Edit" of ep5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1gfl2HS1qA
I am a little concerned about...
2024-03-08 20:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo here's something new, or rather, three new things:
Li'l Guys ep 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kldj_NmR7oo
Li'l Guys ep 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2_X0FS2e4o
Checking out a Vaio C1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...
2024-03-03 20:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a new series I'm starting that's intended to be cozy, unscripted and low effort. I'm not planning on retiring the studio or anything, but I really need to do more videos that don't require all that setup and prep or I'm gonna burn out, plus it's actually harder to use that environment for off the cuff stuff like this. I really want to put out some ten minute episodes if I can manage it, it's a goal I've been pursuing for years and by golly I'm gonna do it if it kills me.
If an...
Haven't named this one yet but I'm so tired of editing it - I just want to release it, I'll name it later. I bought a DVD player basically sight-unseen, mostly because it had a silly name, then sat down to shoot a video about it that was basically just... "here's this thing with a silly name and a silly splash screen, here's something neat you can do with it," and four days later I was on my fifth reshoot because I kept finding out things about it, including an extremely unexpected tie-in wit...
2024-02-23 08:20:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This was honestly one of the more fun episodes I've made in a while. That's kinda just the size of it. Enjoy!
2024-02-17 04:12:12 +0000 UTC View PostCompletely forgot to upload this after the last thrift store video (though the response to that one was so mixed I kinda just wanted to forget it, I guess.) This is not a cinematic masterpiece but I said I was gonna share it so here it is. 🦀
2024-02-14 19:20:14 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a category of video I thought would be a lot more common when I set up my Patreon tiers, and that's "finished, perfectly watchable, but just not what I wanted, so it's going in the trash." As it's turned out however, when I'm not satisfied with a video, it's usually unwatchable crap. That is not the case with the one I finished a few days ago: It's watchable, I just don't like it, so I'm never going to release it.
Normally that would just mean I'm going to reshoot it and do bett...
2024-02-14 18:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I was going to come up with a better name for this and a thumbnail and stuff and maybe even release it publicly today but then my power went out. Here's a video everyone lmk what you think
https://youtu.be/Y2OPrGBxkD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4HAqGrJFCU
As noted in the video this was just intended as an exercise to test a new camera, but I ended up with enough footage to make a video. I was a little uncertain whether I'd get any weird looks walking into stores with a camera around my neck, though that's probably just a memory of the early 2000s, post-9/11 era; probably, with us being this many years post-vlogg...
2024-01-13 19:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This one took me an astonishing length of time to create since I just kept having to reshoot things, partly because I kept finding new dimensions to this program's limitations. I hope you enjoy it. Below is an essay about why I haven't done more videos on software.
Every time someone tells me I should do more videos on software, I want to tell them "you wouldn't watch them if I did" and, well, here's a great example. I'm not dunking on myself here; I think I did a great job. The p...
2024-01-08 07:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGbHD65z4Ak
Hey everyone. I have been completely overwhelmed by the support you've all shown me, and I was going to the thrift store anyway, so here's a video about that to help you burn 40 minutes of dreary family gathering time. Here's hoping you remembered your earbuds. Merry christmas, and seriously, thank you all so, so much.
2023-12-25 05:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, just wanted to check in and let you know how I'm doing. I don't want to post gruesome details here, but suffice to say, I spoke to my surgeon's office today and, phew, I was proper sick as it turns out. But they say my recovery is perfectly on track... Except that I misunderstood my discharge notes, and the level of activity I was about to return to could have burst some stitches. Whoops.
Basically, I'm still laid up until January. I know I don't need to give ex...
Will update when I'm feeling better but I made it.
2023-11-23 03:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostSo, the last month has been very difficult, and progress on my next video has been very slow, and partly that's due to some weird health issues I've been experiencing. In a definitely unrelated event, I am currently waiting to get an appendectomy.
It's not clear if this could be the cause of all of my problems, but I'm hoping it is, or that the antibiotics I'm getting will incidentally cure whatever was going on with me.
I know I don't need to apologize for not having released ...
There's probably not going to be a video for another week at least, because I have decided to start tackling the Video Toaster. Please pray for me.
I have the feeling I'm going to end up producing over four hours of material on this subject spread across several videos, because it is tremendous, it's very hard to say anything at all without qualifying it due to the atrocious state of documentation on this stuff, and even picking a place to start is hard.
If anyone out the...
2023-11-02 09:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Workshopping the name etc on this one. I've been having a really rough time the last few weeks with health issues and other stuff, hopefully things will get better soon, but I decided I couldn't put everything on hold indefinitely so I went ahead and wrote and shot this video entirely while dealing with a lot of stress and anxiety, so... if it has a weird energy, that's why.
This is one of those videos where I'm not super satisfied with the result, but not sure I could actually have don...
2023-10-21 19:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post