Happy Demolition Day Everybody! I show a practical and seemingly successful way of filtering out air pollution from your home or apartment. At least, it seems to be working in mine! Enjoy!
2018-11-01 20:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! It's Fran...... AGAIN! Yes, after more than a week locked out of my account, I am finally back on Patreon, so I'll be catching up on all those thank-you's to all the new patrons and sending out swag and whatnot. Thanks for hanging in there and being patient everybody!
2018-10-31 20:16:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to everyone who chipped into the GoFundMe campaign, and thanks to Big Clive and Brian Benchoff for ringing the bell!
2018-10-23 00:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostOMG!! We have crossed that threshold that I thought could never be reached by this little channel - but you have all decreed with a singular voice that FranLab shall not go gently into that good night. We'll move to a new home, and thanks to the immeasurable generosity of all of you who pitched into the GoFundMe campaign it looks very realistic that we'll be able to buy that new space to be a permanent (albeit cozy) home for Franlab into the future.
Thanks to Brian who...
2018-10-22 16:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm kinda worn down but I wanted to take a few minutes to deliver this personal message to convey so many thanks to so many of you! https://www.gofundme.com/franlab-needs-a-new-home
2018-10-21 20:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Triple thanks to all of you for hanging in there with me through this mess!
2018-10-20 01:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
So many of you have asked for me to set up a GoFundMe so that you can send one-time donations for the moving expenses I am incurring, so here you go! I'll make a video later but I have this page set up in the meantime. Demolition of the building is imminent, so I'm under the gun to start this relocation as soon as I can. Thanks in advance friends....
2018-10-19 16:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
So sad to not be among the 1%.
2018-10-19 01:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Total build time - Approximately 8hrs. Total weight - about 350lbs. Flexibility - rigid as fuck! Experience? Priceless.
2018-10-18 02:04:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost done! Does anybody look at the 'extra' attached photos when I put them up in these Patreon posts? It doesn't seem like the typical social media flipbook style photo gallery in these posts... unless your browser shows it differently than mine does.
2018-10-17 16:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Always satisfying to put your weight on a structure you design, fabricate, and build all by yourself. Never gets old!
2018-10-17 02:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I got this Dieter Rams clock from Germany as a broken/as-is item and had to open it up when it arrived yesterday. I had thought that with these late 70's direct drive VLD clocks that repairing and converting it to US 120v/60hz would be doable, but interestingly this clock uses the TI TMS1070NL 4-bit microprocessor, so simply getting another chip would do nothing without the embedded code. Plus changing the sync rate would not be so easy as just jumping a pin like most of the dedicate...
2018-10-16 15:38:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Every good structure begins with a plumb and level foundation. Putting something like this together all by yourself gets extra points.
2018-10-15 16:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post
She's the last of the V-8 interceptors... a piece of history (a lot like myself) better than a truck and definitely the best hauling machine ever made in America.... And invaluable now that the big move-out has begun! How do you increase the capacity of a storage unit another 100 square feet? By adding a mega storage shelving unit, that's how! I fabricated the pieces for this dense pack shelving unit at the FranLab factory and am installing at the storage locker. It will ...
2018-10-14 15:15:53 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.bonfire.com/franlab-circuit-shirt/
Time for the Fall 2018 FranLab Shirt Campaign! This new design has a schematic of a simple circuit with FranLab as the load. One week only! If you miss this campaign the next opportunity for a new FranLab shirt will be the winter campaign in 3 months.
2018-10-10 01:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostTo all those who are a part of the wave of new Patrons this week, Thank You! The outpouring of support you have shown here is closing the gap in my finances, which has eased a great burden. You all are the reason I am able to do this work and have the Lab, even as it looks for a new home.
Over the next few weeks I am sorting and packing, and moving the stuff that is not essential to current projects to the new storage space. I just finished setting up the first run of ...
2018-10-06 14:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for your support, my friends.... This will be getting rough over the weeks and months ahead. FranLab is gonna need a lot of help.
2018-10-04 00:30:28 +0000 UTC View Post
A handy tip I leaned the hard way - and use quite often.
2018-10-03 19:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Complete nerd porn - I delve through the files of a former Zenith Radio Corp engineer who was developing next generation clocks for the auto industry in the early 70's, and oh what a treasure trove it is! This is my condensed video - I spent over an hour and a half going through the pages, and this is the cream of the crop, distilled for your viewing pleasure. So lets go back - to the future! Enjoy!
Oh My! This Viewer Mail is so overflowing with cool stuff that it had to be broken into two videos! Yes, another to follow later this week. Get your fill of all the geek goodness I've baked into this one, but leave room for desert... in a couple days. Enjoy!
The Max Headroom Live Broadcast cut-in video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t32JpruyLZk
The Casio VFD calculator - <...
2018-09-26 03:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
You Betcha! The USSR was history but the Russian military just kept on making these state-of-the-art Nixie display modules right through the 90's. I crack one open and put it to work using Big Iron and my handy custom BCD real time clock bench supply. Enjoy!
2018-09-18 23:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostOn Sunday I put up my now trending "WTF??!!" video and though it is early in the returns I have been condensing the data as it comes in. My fellow content creators unanimously suggest that it may now be a requirement on YouTube to be monetized to participate in the community of similar channels on the platform. I really don't want to do that, for many reasons. But If I am to face isolation on YouTube by remaining free and open, and if YouTube requires me to monetize if I want my chan...
2018-09-18 19:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it plain old naked discrimination for small channels, bias by the bots, or punishment for those still refusing to drink the google coolaid? No one outside of YouTube corporate headquarters can really know... but there's something happening here.
2018-09-17 15:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Heavy ionization time...
2018-09-15 06:43:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I am spending this week sorting through the many projects throughout the lab and reorganizing and prioritizing everything. Also going through the shelves and sorting out parts and supplies that I really don't need immediately, boxing that stuff up and moving it out to my storage space. Seems like a easy enough thing to do, but I've been at it for three straight days and moved three full-size wagon loads out to storage already and I'm probably about half way ...
2018-09-13 00:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post
NOTHING IS OVER!!! They say that you can't polish a turd.... but you can paint one. I'm going all in for the big pain. Let's see what this scale looks like all cleaned up and the interesting things it shows me in the process. Enjoy!
2018-09-08 04:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to the future - of 1985! I got a very vintage talking scale at the thrift shop and I'm anxious to see what's inside...
Hank Lives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRer1lH3Ryo
2018-09-05 06:51:48 +0000 UTC View Post
