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What an adventure it must be to make these things and one day finally having the joy to see the whole world use your inventions like this.
Having never worked on any hardware I can only imagine how much fun (and test of patience!) it must be to use/bend the laws of physics to make such things.
I always get a kick out of seeing my videos randomly on HN. Ask me anything.
(I always get a chuckle out of your "Hope you found that interesting, bye!" at the end of your videos. Every time I'm thinking to myself, hell yeah I found that interesting, that's an understatement!)
I always get a kick out of seeing my videos randomly on HN. Ask me anything.
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I always get a kick out of seeing my videos randomly on HN. Ask me anything.
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That's a good question. A Windows laptop. It's super annoying, constantly updating itself, forced reboots, network disconnections, fragile, yet is required for many CAD and acquisition/control proprietary software.
I suggest obtaining a copy of Windows 10 LTSC, much better stability and no mandatory updates/forced reboots. Might make it a bit more reliable.
I was picturing the engineers who must have done like a 1000 iterations of this stuff before they were able to come up with a crystal clear image on the film. What an adventure it must be to make these things and one day finally having the joy to see the whole world use your inventions like this. Having never worked on any hardware I can only imagine how much fun (and test of patience!) it must be to use/bend the law…
I look around me, and there are hundreds (thousands!) of human-made objects around me, and many of the more complex objects are made of multiple simpler complements themselves (like the projector in the video) and each of these objects likely involved a large group in their initial invention and then even more in their mass production. The invention also relies on previous discoveries.
Every single made object is probably the cumulative effort of hundreds or thousands of people- and even the most simple made object likely has a network of technological advancements and associated people that would be too complex for any single person to comprehend or map.
I would love to watch a documentary of someone picking the most ‘boring’ or simple made object and try to uncover the people and technology required to make it- would be a fascinating watch!
The 1977 camera mentioned halfway through the video might have been the first consumer camera that superimposes the date, but it was common for aerial photos to have metadata like that added to the margins, like https://map.geoportail.lu/aerial/1977_30000/pdfs/0181.pdf
There are also digital cameras that "print" the date onto the pictures, I saw someone had this feature turned on and I thought explaining EXIF to them might be too difficult.
1. e.g. pictures after a traffic accident, received goods in poor condition, or state of property at start of a lease.
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Huge fan of your videos. What are the chances of quitting your day job and working on side projects/youtube videos full time, like StuffMadeHere?
I really liked owning my own business (MRI-compatible computer peripherals 2006-2011), and I'll very likely start another unrelated small business in the future. I also like to do YouTube videos as a hobby or at least Patreon-supported hobby, and not depend on them for main income, because I think it changes the character of the videos. If I depended on videos, I'd probably also start thumbnail optimization, A/B test…
Your content is wonderful very impressive. Dumb question, but do you consider yourself a citizen scientist, or engineer, or maker or whatever, or do you dislike labels?