Tim Hunkin's new "Secret Life" series

Status
Not open for further replies.
U

upand_at_them

Active Member
Last edited:
Very interesting, thank you for bringing it to our attention.

The one thing spoilt it for me, was when he started talking about the "resistance" of the LED, and then started playing about with a nice sophisticated bench PSU and clunky old 100 watt variable resistor in order to find the series resistance to use with his big LED.

JimB
 
upand_at_them said:
Yeah, unfortunately he's not an engineer. He's a tinkerer/artist.
Click to expand...
And many engineers are having a great careers making arduinos, raspberry pi’s, various daughter boards, and components to enable tinkerers and artists to turn their dreams into art, devices or a better understanding of how things work
 
upand_at_them said:
Yeah, unfortunately he's not an engineer. He's a tinkerer/artist.
Click to expand...
Yes, I had sussed that out very early on in the video.

gophert said:
And many engineers are having a great careers making arduinos, raspberry pi’s, various daughter boards, and components to enable tinkerers and artists to turn their dreams into art, devices or a better understanding of how things work
Click to expand...
That is good.

JimB
 
Brilliant! Thanks for letting us know about this. Secret life of machines was an excellent series.
It sounds like he needs his sidekick back again - who was an engineer. I forget his name... Rex possibly?

EDIT
Apologies. Having checked, I see that Rex Garrod passed away last year. A great shame - I particularly used to enjoy his contributions to Secret Life...
 

He was a great guy, one of the stars of Robot Wars.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

T
  • Question
Function of Cemented Ceramic Caps Connected in Series.
Replies
10
Views
1K
ToddB74
T
F
  • Question
NEW INFO! Electrostatic Air Filter Using Neon Transformer?
Replies
4
Views
1K
rjenkinsgb
  • Question
AC Motor Series Capacitor
Replies
18
Views
1K
crutschow
  • Question
dropping voltage with diodes in series
Replies
12
Views
2K
Nigel Goodwin
M
  • Question
Power supply change - can I use this new one?
Replies
2
Views
1K
Tony Stewart
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…