Available just for you this week before the rest of the world gets to see! You can get it on the u-tube or the diode zone,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a4-ZxISiRM
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/e5c80ea3-7c9c-4feb-9afd-d03bcf58c49f
This video has taken a long journey to reach you, ...
2021-05-03 19:13:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a teardown of that weird police doorbell thing I got from my real estate agent last year, the disappointing conformal coated 720p camera with a squishy button and a surprisingly large battery!
On youtube and diode zone,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMyFfRxB_4
2021-02-28 03:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Very early access this time, it's not done yet but I have the first few minutes from the next edit, https://diode.zone/videos/watch/26d2b409-178c-4b71-9795-9250b72208cf
Another big editing project is ready for you! This one is mostly about a weird little pen, but there's plenty of Tuco as well :)
On YouTube now, and it's currently transcoding on diode zone and might be ready by the time you're seeing this,
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/c88...
2021-02-13 20:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I haven't decided if this is the final version of the audio or if it needs some beats. This one is going to be less impressive than the button video, but it was another work-in-progress edit that I just really needed to finish.
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/e03a18fe-84bb-4920-b55a-099b89b4bc1e
Update: now on both diode zone and youtube for your early access convenience, <...
2021-02-05 04:36:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: On diode zone now too, https://diode.zone/videos/watch/8ef9a577-a97f-412b-ae45-0687b2f3a32e
It's a new video edit! Be the first to see it! :D
It's just a project video, nothing groundbreaking or important, but it's got some nice reversing and machining. I'm trying to finish up video projects that have been partially baked for far too long. Let me know what you think...
2021-01-28 16:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, hope folks are staying warm this winter if it's cold where you are.
I've had my head down for a bit working on some new software projects.. I did a little bit of streaming about them lately but largely I've been feeling like it isn't at an especially visually interesting point yet. ("yay, the segfault is now slightly different... progress")
The larger context here though is that I want to make tools that are useful for people to create smaller video sites and other on...
2020-11-29 23:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still not a hundred percent sure why or if it's ever okay to build technology, but somehow I found myself engrossed in it again. Maybe I can ask for some help on where to go from here, since I've been going against my previous intuition and keeping this one off github so far.
Anyway, so 2020. I still don't even know what to say that's relevant. I had some energy to walk around my city carrying protest signs earlier this year, and then I had to really focus on g...
2020-10-05 23:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, I want to say I hope you and your loved ones are doing as well as can be expected in these times. I want to give you all an update on how I'm doing personally and on my work, but I also feel like none of that is important enough to matter at this point, and perhaps none of it has ever been important to anyone. This project that I've been trying to turn into something worthwhile for years now, just seems wholly incapable of meeting the moment we are in.
So, most importantly...
2020-04-04 20:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
I really appreciate everyone who's been sticking with me through this year. I've been having a rough time with mental health for a lot of it. I've also been getting more and more burned out on both the whole San Francisco Bay area and the DIY-tech-focused work I've been doing.
I can see you reaching for the "unsubscribe" button already; don't worry, I'm not giving up tech junk. I'm just really done holding it up on any kind of pedestal. I really need to be more real a...
2019-11-06 02:48:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a simple video made from some leftovers I had in the data fridge while cooking up a more involved video. Hope some of you enjoy, and perhaps it's a project we could resume in the future.
On utube or diode zone:
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/740b5711-5609-4b1f-920d-d7c0...
2019-05-18 23:06:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, thanks for the support, I hope this video of Tuco brightens your Monday night (or Tuesday morning?)
Also on diode zone tho the 4K support there isn't as nice, https://diode.zone/videos/watch/e4fabcb2-6b7e-4566-819c-96b93b8cc314
Also in pet news, I've been working on a weird project to do compilations of one month of isopod activity into some hours of video.. an...
2019-05-07 03:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostI've been mostly just trying to make progress on ongoing projects... stream things, edit video, feed the cat. Lately I've been on some information technology sub-quests to support the shop, and I've been busy with things like making space in the rack, running cable, getting some old computers ready to sell, setting up a new file server, trying to automate more things.
In the midst of that I said "yes" to a couple things people asked me to do. I maintain that this is usually a bad idea, ...
2019-03-29 19:49:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Another quick edit from the FPGA streams. On youtube or diode zone:
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/62ad8c60-2ff3-41bb-a600-d1a6cf93ca44
Just trying to keep these simple and kick them out the door, make more brain space and hard disk spa...
2019-02-07 03:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post
All four parts, on youtube and diode zone!
1: https://youtu.be/aRAyVoljc_w
2: https://youtu.be/RKKXaWz9mMQ
These are all edited and the other three will be posted soon, but I couldn't wait to announce the first one for all of my fine patrons who have been so patient 😅
(sorry again that i let perfectionism stifle this one for so long... oof)
On diode zone and youtube:
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/54518b34-cd53-430f-bf3e-0f3434b20b50
...
2019-02-04 04:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This is one of the videos I struggle with releasing the most. I feel like if the point is to make a short and pithy explanation, I'd be better off with a scripted format. So, that part of me screams to just throw away footage like this. But then, maybe somebody still finds it useful and perhaps it won't tarnish my reputation too much because what do I have to lose 😅
... 2019-02-03 23:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Gotta stop being a perfectionist and get these videos out the door! Here's an unscripted bit of explanation about the video server side project. Available on youtube and diode zone:
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/583e7862-f2fe-4d13-9fac-40a93677202a
... 2019-02-03 22:23:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been stockpiling almost-finished projects lately because, well, mostly depression. I have this whole series of FPGA videos that I had convinced myself I need to edit and finish all at once. But they don't have some great story arc or anything, they're project videos and edited monologues from the live streams. I've been worried about releasing anything at all before I finish that entire group of videos, and then I simultaneously feel like those videos won't actually be that good anyway s...
2019-02-02 01:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there, kind patrons and internet friends! I hope the holidays have been treating you and your family well. I've been kind of a depressed hermit lately but there have been some nice times with friends this past couple weeks, and that's been really nice.
I have so much video in the pipeline; most of all a series of FPGA project videos. The sads have got that pipeline more clogged than usual, but I'm working on that. In the mean time, some other things have been joyful distractions... a...
2019-01-03 23:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi again, my wonderful patrons, just a quick note that I’ll be streaming tomorrow afternoon (Saturday) with the intent to make it mostly a question and answer session. This comes mostly from feeling lately like people often have questions on Twitter that are too big to answer on Twitter.
I’ve already been getting some good questions for this stream but I’d always appreciate hearing more! If you have something you’d like me to answer on stream you can bring it to me live, or send me a q...
2018-11-30 16:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Early access to the latest video edit! Sorry the access isn't as early as I usually try for, I plan for this to go out more widely later today.
I don't know if Patreon supports the embed, but this is available both on YouTube and Diode Zone:
https://diode.zone/videos/watch/237e72cc-bc02-4dde-8acc-06c5ad0a2952
Hi Everyone! Just a quick note, the PeerTube-powered video site I’ve been setting up is finally open for invitation after a miniature roller coaster of network issues and a long transcode queue of stream archive videos.
https://diode.zone/about/instance
You can read what I’ve written about the sites’s rules and goals at the link here, and if you’d like an account feel free to send me a message either ...
I'll be writing more about this once it's less experimental, but I wanted to let my patrons know something new is in progress, if you hadn't seen it elsewhere.
I've been kinda excited about the potential for "re-decentralizing" the internet, i.e. finding ways to have smaller collections of servers that talk to each other and host communities of people, rather than the all-encompassing global cloud services that are so popular now.
Mastodon is one example of that in the social networking ...
2018-08-28 02:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Another quick video, this time a cursory teardown of some manufacturing test jigs I picked up cheap at a local moving sale. Like the donation unboxings, consider this an introduction to an object we may use for something more involved later on.
<3 tuco & micah
Okay, a few more boxes to open on film, sent in by many of you! I'm still trying to deal with my footage backlog, and I made things a bit harder for myself this week by rebuilding the windows install on my editing machine... but now things are squeaky clean and running smoothly, and I'm sticking the clips together.
As usual, posting this early for patrons before the metadata or thumbnail are set up :)
Right now I'm still trying to just be an editing machine and deal with the backlog, but...
2018-08-10 03:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Still trying to clear my footage backlog... I had been stockpiling this footage from doing live streamed unboxing of the new hardware donations that we'll be going into more deeply later, since I wasn't sure what format it should take. Well let's try a few at a time, with a little bit of mystery. Still not sure how the metadata for this video will end up.
Thanks everyone! Still looking forward to doing more intentional scripted stuff, but it'll also be nice to have less of a giant backlog. Let...
2018-08-03 03:34:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello! Just another quick and possibly relaxing video on something I did around the shop recently.
(This is from the bin of footage that was mostly unboxings, but had a few other worthwhile tidbits in it.)
Back to editing! This will go up for everyone later in the week.
This is another pretty simple edit from today, as I go through old footage. There's a nice tasty pile of unboxing footage that I'm turning into a compilation video which should be fun, but this little block printing adventure was nestled in amongst the rest.
As usual I'm posting it here on Patreon before making it public on YouTube or finishing the metadata :)
(If you're wondering about the pirated "DaveCAD" thing, it's a bit of a joke/reference related to EEVBlog, a youtube channel run ...
2018-07-24 05:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hot off the editing press (right next to the drill press), another little vid that apparently results from half a stream's worth of filming plus... well most of this week on editing and b-roll. But now it's done!
I'll keep trying to turn the footage backlog into finished videos... the faster computer is certainly helping, and I'm making strides at speeding up the workflow too.
Thanks for your support, and feedback is always appreciated. See you on the internet!
2018-07-20 01:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post