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Title: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 20, 2018, 05:40:07 pm
https://abstrusegoose.com/578
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ampera on October 20, 2018, 06:27:57 pm
Pretty neat except for the password part, which even through tearing apart the underlying scripts, I can't find the password for, so either I am missing something obvious, or just stupid.

edit: found it out, as it turned out I was stupid.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: onesixright on October 20, 2018, 08:35:38 pm
Cool.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Macbeth on October 20, 2018, 08:40:14 pm
This was fun until the password stage. I tried all the obvious including 'hunter2' then decided this is no fun whatsoever and had a brief dip into the javascript but couldn't find anything worth my time so ended it there.

ETA: Did another run through and it's obvious what the password is, no digging through code needed.  :-DD
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 20, 2018, 10:25:55 pm
I spent some time, too, looking under the hood for that password. :horse:
Then I was  :palm:  :-DD

Interactive comics is something very original, never seen such a thing before.

As for the rest of the comics, Abstruse Goose is brilliant.  I don't know anybody to be better.  Look:
https://abstrusegoose.com/482
https://abstrusegoose.com/587
https://abstrusegoose.com/183
https://abstrusegoose.com/249
https://abstrusegoose.com/297
https://abstrusegoose.com/324
https://abstrusegoose.com/562
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ampera on October 20, 2018, 10:45:49 pm
One thing I did find, if you are particularly bored, is that the maze's collision detection is pretty broken, so if you just try at the right angle, you can go through all the walls, and even exit outside the map. After looking at the source code, as it turns out, it's actually using a raycasting engine, something pretty neat for JavaScript.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on October 20, 2018, 11:32:48 pm
Yet another xkcd?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Mr. Scram on October 20, 2018, 11:34:37 pm
This is broken to the point of not doing anything on the various devices I tried it on. It seems to not cope very well with any blocking of any kind.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: sokoloff on October 21, 2018, 01:29:34 am
Works OK for me on Mac OS Chrome 69.0.3497.100 with uBlock Origin. That blocked two Google syndication ads, so it doesn't seem like it's littered with crapware.
If you have Javascript disabled, well, it's a Javascript puzzle so yeah that's not going to work.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 28, 2018, 07:51:34 am
Just Excel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9PLmtQZwmY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9PLmtQZwmY)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 04, 2018, 04:39:30 pm
Plateau's Rotating Drops, Euler-Lagrange Equations and Bifurcations
Satisfying ^-^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rybHKVY8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rybHKVY8)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 14, 2019, 10:08:50 pm
You got five days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs)

 ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 14, 2019, 08:14:18 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQM_gbSbIug (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQM_gbSbIug)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 12, 2019, 08:56:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: apis on March 12, 2019, 09:29:09 pm
That RCS thruster control mechanism was ingenious.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: edy on March 15, 2019, 02:11:04 am
This was fun until the password stage. I tried all the obvious including 'hunter2' then decided this is no fun whatsoever and had a brief dip into the javascript but couldn't find anything worth my time so ended it there.

ETA: Did another run through and it's obvious what the password is, no digging through code needed.  :-DD


Yes same here, I rummaged around for the code in Javascript, ended up even finding some pages here:

https://abstrusegoose.com/sa-comics/578/scripts/login_scripts/login.js (https://abstrusegoose.com/sa-comics/578/scripts/login_scripts/login.js)

I looked and looked and ended up guessing the password anyways... I won't give away the secret, except to say we have read some of the same Sci-Fi books.  ;)  Still, just as an exercise I am still curious where the compare is being done to see where they stored the password (or are they doing it via calculation which would be a better way to obfuscate it rather than just a string).
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 25, 2019, 09:01:44 am
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/SquareWaveFourierArrows.gif

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/SquareWaveFourierArrows.gif)

Arrows are the fundamental frequency plus the first five harmonics of a square wave.
Magenta dot is the sum of them.  Blue dot is the ideal square wave.  Looks funny.

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on March 25, 2019, 10:16:55 am
The classic, https://xkcd.com/356/ ;D

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 26, 2019, 08:53:06 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCi8MXWhdvY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCi8MXWhdvY)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 01, 2019, 07:41:56 am
Move along, move along, nothing to see here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwjcn4Vl2iw&t=523 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwjcn4Vl2iw&t=523)

(experimental fun with microwaves starts at 8:43 - never before seen them all in one place)
 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on April 01, 2019, 09:15:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCi8MXWhdvY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCi8MXWhdvY)

 :o
Wholly crap, I had no bloody idea at all that this was even near possible by any means at all.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Gyro on April 02, 2019, 12:46:44 pm
Move along, move along, nothing to see here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwjcn4Vl2iw&t=523 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwjcn4Vl2iw&t=523)

(experimental fun with microwaves starts at 8:43 - never before seen them all in one place)
 ^-^

Classic stuff, I remember being taken to a Chemistry lecture at the Royal Institution while at senior school. The Christmas lectures were required viewing in our household.

I had forgotten Mr Coates, he was a permanent fixture at the Royal Institution lectures for many, many years! https://www.rigb.org/our-history/people/c/bill-coates (https://www.rigb.org/our-history/people/c/bill-coates)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 05, 2019, 01:27:08 pm
Vooom-Vooom-Vooom-Vooom!  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-6WYGnBMSU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-6WYGnBMSU)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Neilm on April 05, 2019, 04:42:06 pm
Filming the speed of light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 06, 2019, 11:07:21 am
 8) Party!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EyQQ-Nubw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EyQQ-Nubw)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: tpowell1830 on April 06, 2019, 06:32:25 pm
A bit of a mix of electrical, electronic, mechanical, 3d printing, machining and kinematics. This is the latest of a long series, episode #15. James does all sorts of projects, but this project is the most sciencey one IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN4wAZHtbzc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN4wAZHtbzc)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 08, 2019, 10:39:19 pm
Qute Fourier visualization (interactive): http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html (http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html)  :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 09, 2019, 10:59:17 pm
"Aluminium has a relatively low melting point (660°C) but its boiling point (2470°C) is very high. The parabolic shape (funicular curvedes) which the wire takes on when it is heated ensures that the oxide shell does not break. When reducing the current, the wire always breaks."  :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbdwuuzzYqQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbdwuuzzYqQ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 14, 2019, 11:01:17 am
Watch it to the end, full screen (35 seconds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_88S8DWbcU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_88S8DWbcU)

Woobl !  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 14, 2019, 06:34:57 pm
This rainbow is on fire!  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-bnHRaxiSQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-bnHRaxiSQ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 15, 2019, 11:23:15 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxMM4g2Sk8U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxMM4g2Sk8U)

 ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 27, 2019, 02:27:58 am
Solving EQUATIONS by shooting TURTLES with LASERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUC-8P0zXe8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUC-8P0zXe8)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 30, 2019, 07:35:05 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXUQRFNhUw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXUQRFNhUw)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 01, 2019, 06:47:01 am
A hardware guy writing software:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EumR6luhwME (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EumR6luhwME)



A software guy doing hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMNZnNZA9U0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMNZnNZA9U0)



If it didn't work, use SPICE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_FxUFvwwc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_FxUFvwwc)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 02, 2019, 02:57:46 pm
Yet another Marangoni effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h16Tyn2138 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h16Tyn2138)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: edy on May 03, 2019, 07:09:23 pm
Solving EQUATIONS by shooting TURTLES with LASERS

Thanks for sharing that video, this Mathologer guy is now one of my favourite channels to watch! Pretty cool stuff and he's funny for a mathematician! I just watched one where he talked about squaring triangles and how to prove certain square roots are irrational! Mind blown!
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: apis on May 04, 2019, 05:59:26 pm
Mathologer is my favourite maths channel, no competition.
https://youtu.be/qS4H6PEcCCA
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on May 04, 2019, 10:30:37 pm
I'd have to place 3blue1brown higher, but it's hardly a competition, they're both well worth watching. :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: apis on May 05, 2019, 01:04:09 pm
Yeah, 3blue1brown is also quite good, very nice animations... ... if Mathologer is Batman then 3b1b is Robin. ;)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 07, 2019, 04:39:57 pm
SurfaceSight: A New Spin on Touch, User, and Object Sensing for IoT Experiences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLWdvpg8BMg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLWdvpg8BMg)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 11, 2019, 12:04:47 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPdPpi5W4o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPdPpi5W4o)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 12, 2019, 07:06:09 pm
Thank ebastler for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CEpT_A19qI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CEpT_A19qI)

 :clap:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: apis on May 15, 2019, 06:08:51 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kocnm8xpoJc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kocnm8xpoJc)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 19, 2019, 06:15:01 pm
Q: What's the most comfortable umbrella during rain?
A: A chain armor, of course!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoIfjLXVQ98 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoIfjLXVQ98)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 21, 2019, 07:24:07 pm
You are never alone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW2eGaUzq7E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW2eGaUzq7E)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 25, 2019, 07:53:54 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9LE6b-SYw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9LE6b-SYw)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: soldar on May 25, 2019, 03:44:48 pm
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/) challenges writers to write a really bad opening sentence for a novel.

2005 winner:
Quote
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual. — Dan McKay

2007 winner:
Quote
Gerald began – but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them “permanently” meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash – to pee. — Jim Gleeson, Madison, WI
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 05, 2019, 02:54:05 am
Fun website where guy trained an AI to understand the relationship between 2000 images of cats and their line art equivalents.
You can draw a cat diagram and have the AI turn it into a real cat photo, or at-least try too :-DD

https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/ (https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/)

Note: On some computers the website doesn't work. I think it uses some CPU extensions not found in older processors, or maybe it uses CUDA for all the AI processing.

(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/post-a-picture-of-a-cat!/?action=dlattach;attach=753666;image)

Go ahead and try to sketch you own cat.  Be creative, even unconventional.
See?  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 12, 2019, 04:33:55 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jvi7vfgSgQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jvi7vfgSgQ)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 13, 2019, 06:21:03 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYga8cdUSnM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYga8cdUSnM)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 15, 2019, 06:09:26 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WdLV3YRMvw&t=1100 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WdLV3YRMvw&t=1100)

If you want just to hear HAARP sounds, it's at minute 18:20  :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Arjunan M R on June 15, 2019, 01:49:05 pm
This was fun until the password stage. I tried all the obvious including 'hunter2' then decided this is no fun whatsoever and had a brief dip into the javascript but couldn't find anything worth my time so ended it there.

ETA: Did another run through and it's obvious what the password is, no digging through code needed.  :-DD


Yes same here, I rummaged around for the code in Javascript, ended up even finding some pages here:

https://abstrusegoose.com/sa-comics/578/scripts/login_scripts/login.js (https://abstrusegoose.com/sa-comics/578/scripts/login_scripts/login.js)

I looked and looked and ended up guessing the password anyways... I won't give away the secret, except to say we have read some of the same Sci-Fi books.  ;)  Still, just as an exercise I am still curious where the compare is being done to see where they stored the password (or are they doing it via calculation which would be a better way to obfuscate it rather than just a string).
Any more clues for the password.
Having a hard time figuring it out. :( ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 15, 2019, 03:24:35 pm
If we could just know the answer to everything, then we will know this password, too.   ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 16, 2019, 05:47:25 pm
A French dude during Napoleon times was trying to calculate how the heat spread in a metal plate.  What could go wrong?

About quarter of millennia later:
- 5G
- mobile phones
- WiFi
- mp3, Photoshop, CGI special effect
- digital oscilloscope, SA, VNA
- MRI, NMR
- crystallography, LHC
- astronomical spectroscopy
- insert almost whatever here ...

The dude's name was Fourier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToIXSwZ1pJU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToIXSwZ1pJU)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 31, 2019, 01:26:26 am
https://www.av8n.com/physics/ (https://www.av8n.com/physics/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 17, 2019, 05:17:46 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0B8N-rmce8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0B8N-rmce8)

 :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 20, 2019, 06:47:51 am
Rename the attached video from ".webm.png" to ".webm" only, then play it.

Fun?  OK.
 ;D

Now play it in a loop, while looking at the yellow wheel.
The yellow wheel turns, suddenly stops, then rotates again.
Who's locking the wheel?
 :o

This is how it should look, but still, seeing it is mesmerizing.
Relativity of the observer at its finest.
 ^-^

[attachimg=2]
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 04, 2019, 09:37:25 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51usJ74pPP8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51usJ74pPP8)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 06, 2019, 07:52:53 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3xNHMUDUw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3xNHMUDUw)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 19, 2019, 05:27:46 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_XzisU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_XzisU)

Totally bamboozled!   :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 24, 2019, 05:46:46 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC4MjPKf3jY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC4MjPKf3jY)

Mastering Slavery 101   ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 27, 2019, 08:40:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwAQZNLy0I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwAQZNLy0I)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 02, 2019, 05:53:11 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jrd5kJ-vTU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jrd5kJ-vTU)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 09, 2019, 10:12:49 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 10, 2019, 04:08:14 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3P9rJmIOQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3P9rJmIOQ)

And not to mention Iron Man, too!   ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 11, 2019, 10:48:02 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1BhVhpGN0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1BhVhpGN0)

Smokin' at 4:20!  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 13, 2019, 08:46:00 pm
"Everything is relative" bamboozles again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4-L8UgPkOk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4-L8UgPkOk)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 15, 2019, 05:19:09 am
[attachimg=1]

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 19, 2019, 03:35:28 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnBbHFfZ6k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnBbHFfZ6k)

 ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 27, 2019, 03:53:14 pm
A one minute video puzzle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fwzf1WtAE8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fwzf1WtAE8)

 :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 29, 2019, 07:48:40 am
Very high resolution selfie of Curiosity on Mars (~10MB and 250MB): https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23240
~10MB https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1910/ClayCache_Curiosity_9990.jpg (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1910/ClayCache_Curiosity_9990.jpg)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 02, 2019, 11:36:33 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W65JhGY-z6Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W65JhGY-z6Y)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 07, 2019, 01:33:04 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pxYVlgSzCg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pxYVlgSzCg)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 19, 2019, 07:11:56 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXN9HjLJvdc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXN9HjLJvdc)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 21, 2019, 12:31:14 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Fc08X56R0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Fc08X56R0)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 23, 2019, 06:52:29 pm
 8)  A new type of electronic component, the BiZen transistor:

[attach=1]

Circuit symbol for the Bizen (Bipolar-Zener) transistor showing the input which uses the quantum tunneling effect.  (Image: SFN)
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335216# (https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335216#)

https://hackaday.com/2019/11/23/new-part-day-the-bizen-transistor/ (https://hackaday.com/2019/11/23/new-part-day-the-bizen-transistor/)



Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 25, 2019, 01:36:24 pm
Stolen from de∫hipu:
 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 30, 2019, 09:07:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKhUizkXxA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKhUizkXxA)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 02, 2019, 08:30:40 pm
Lab with a quantum computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tbC3p1YYvU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tbC3p1YYvU)

(it only makes sense after reading their papers)  ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 07, 2019, 03:20:24 pm
A real tale with spies and physicists and H-bomb plans lost in a train.   8)
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-hydrogen-secrets.html

Original article
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4364
Same content, PDF magazine scan
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4364
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 14, 2019, 03:56:27 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt7LjqJ45k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt7LjqJ45k)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 20, 2019, 12:03:58 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-SUo2wP4I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-SUo2wP4I)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 07, 2020, 07:25:40 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjXAAxgR-M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjXAAxgR-M)

 :o



About the same info as text:
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/07/the-oldest-nuclear-reactor-natures-2-billion-year-old-experiment/ (https://hackaday.com/2020/01/07/the-oldest-nuclear-reactor-natures-2-billion-year-old-experiment/)

A photo of such a nuclear reactor
Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100912.html (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100912.html)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 09, 2020, 11:10:33 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99u53V7uDFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99u53V7uDFY)

 :-+

Interesting paper about another subject, correcting RF leakage:
Scalar Network Analyzer Leakage Correction, by Ted Yapo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/132w56treJsABD6a_0f7Oilfb4Dvm1751/view (https://drive.google.com/file/d/132w56treJsABD6a_0f7Oilfb4Dvm1751/view)
published in https://journal.hackaday.io/current (https://journal.hackaday.io/current)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 10, 2020, 10:41:56 pm
[attachimg=1]

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 12, 2020, 09:48:15 pm
Old gems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMO3dZAizb4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMO3dZAizb4)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 17, 2020, 12:57:13 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqMYWldfs_k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqMYWldfs_k)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 28, 2020, 07:48:09 pm
Q: - What animal gives milk?
A: - The fly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCtCote9U0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCtCote9U0)

 :o  Tsetse fly.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 29, 2020, 04:38:54 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7s1sr4JdlI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7s1sr4JdlI)

Boston Dynamics' new year resolutions for 2020 are about making a business turn.
Better don't go into law enforcement, BD, don't go there.  ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 31, 2020, 11:46:02 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrjbdohloSE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrjbdohloSE)

Waiting for the first Li-Fu battery in 3, 2, 1,  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 31, 2020, 11:55:34 pm
Shhhhh!  Be vewy, vewy, quiet.
He's gonna say about some wabit.
:P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJcsL7vyrk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJcsL7vyrk)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: 1Ghz on February 01, 2020, 10:22:03 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UesaCcfI_8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UesaCcfI_8)

Very nice cover
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 10, 2020, 08:18:11 pm
[attachimg=1]

 ;D

States of Matter by David L. Goodstein
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 12, 2020, 02:44:15 pm
The "Deep Look" team is usually doing videos like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3gvx8UQiZA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3gvx8UQiZA)

now opening a new channel, "PBS Terra", about ANTARCTICA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRAuy1ZmTc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRAuy1ZmTc)

Subscribed!   :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 16, 2020, 03:15:29 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feUPkMGACtk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feUPkMGACtk)

 :-DD
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 17, 2020, 02:42:47 pm
Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?
https://www.albany.edu/faculty/miesing/teaching/assess/hell.html (https://www.albany.edu/faculty/miesing/teaching/assess/hell.html)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 23, 2020, 08:47:33 am
[attachimg=1]

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 29, 2020, 02:18:26 pm
The opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire.   :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 02, 2020, 08:16:35 pm
What comes after USA?  USB.
 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 02, 2020, 10:45:30 pm
Wanna see a rocket factory?   :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fG_lnVhHw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fG_lnVhHw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQaPOIQLEUo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQaPOIQLEUo)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 03, 2020, 07:43:12 am
[attachimg=1]

What value is that?   :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: bsfeechannel on March 03, 2020, 10:52:07 pm
What value is that?   :o

I don't know, but R3 is 470Ω.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/8c/4b/368c4b63a703cf186db0a6950ac1007c.jpg)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 22, 2020, 05:06:41 am
(no Catgirls anime, Mousegirls for real)  :D
The making of Mouse computer advertising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzyTOT-oDI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzyTOT-oDI)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 24, 2020, 08:12:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPeilSU4lz0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPeilSU4lz0)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 09, 2020, 09:46:56 pm
Without a Smith chart or a computer, can you do impedance matching and controlled attenuation in your head?   :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geSDcollRos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geSDcollRos)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 10, 2020, 09:12:38 am
Terahertz Geometric Diode   8)

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-one-way-street-electrons.html

Ratcheting quasi-ballistic electrons in silicongeometric diodes at room temperature
Science  10 Apr 2020:
Vol. 368, Issue 6487, pp. 177-180
DOI: 10.1126/science.aay8663

[attachimg=1]
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 17, 2020, 08:45:36 pm
 :wtf:  Do Gods read Holy Books?

(https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/04/Donald-Knuth_2880_Lede.jpg)

Quanta Magazine:  The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories (https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Alphaprot on April 18, 2020, 01:54:05 pm
Yet another idiot (me!) who tried to get the password from the scripts.  |O
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 20, 2020, 04:15:04 pm
A sharpie is 15 times thinner than a human hair.   :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DBNUfhATo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DBNUfhATo)

Meh, about 140 millionths of an inch (3.5\$\mu\$m).   ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: SiliconWizard on April 20, 2020, 04:23:09 pm
Hopefully she doesn't keep this for long. I don't think that would do her ear much good.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 22, 2020, 01:28:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f-JlzBuUUU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f-JlzBuUUU)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 16, 2020, 09:16:21 pm
A solar water pump with no moving parts   :-+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiN3F_lq9fE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiN3F_lq9fE)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 19, 2020, 08:34:32 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PgNbgWSyY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PgNbgWSyY)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 30, 2020, 09:29:38 pm
Compared testing and choosing the proper light bulb:   :-DMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZV5cGzR-YI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZV5cGzR-YI)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 05, 2020, 05:47:08 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoc0YoALt0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoc0YoALt0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 07, 2020, 09:08:34 am
Solder on Al with CuSO4 + NaCl + FeCl3   8)

https://www.instructables.com/id/Solder-Electronic-Components-on-Aluminum/ (https://www.instructables.com/id/Solder-Electronic-Components-on-Aluminum/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z14aU-PaioA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z14aU-PaioA)

Or just skip the whole procedure and solder normally, straight on aluminium, like you would do when soldering on a normal copper PCB, except for aluminium soldering you need to keep the soldering point covered in oil, so the oxigen won't reach the aluminium to form aluminium oxide.  Aluminium oxide is the one that prevents the solder to stick, and it forms almost instantly in air.

Put a drop of oil on the future soldering spot, scratch a little the aluminium surface under the oil drop in order to remove the invisible oxide, then solder under the oil blob.  Solder has no problem sticking on unoxidized aluminium, and the drop of oil stays in the way of atmospheric oxigen to come in contact with the aluminium at the soldering spot.

I've tried soldering under a drop of motor oil and under a drop of cooking oil, both oil worked.  Soldered this way on kitchen aluminium foil and on solid aluminium radiators.  It works almost as easy as it were copper.  Just don't use your best soldering tool, the oil will be hard to remove from the soldering tip.  Use a sacrificial tip, or cover it in Al foil for protection.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 09, 2020, 09:00:15 am
Capiţa's Pendulum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjGqxF79ITI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjGqxF79ITI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oGYCxkgnHQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oGYCxkgnHQ)

 :o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitza%27s_pendulum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitza%27s_pendulum)

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capiţa), Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1978) https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1978/summary/ (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1978/summary/)

You probably never heard of his 1/2 of the Nobel Prize in Physics ("for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics"), because he was eclipsed by the two dudes that got the other 1/2 prize that year for scratching the pigeon's poop from their antenna in order to remove radio noises, and thus discovering the Big Bang!  ;D
(Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.")
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 21, 2020, 10:52:54 am
The cat is dead, long live the cat!   8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDW9bWSepB0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDW9bWSepB0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 24, 2020, 10:15:59 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suH32X91sQE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suH32X91sQE)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 25, 2020, 07:14:30 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKYTUbIMQM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKYTUbIMQM)

 >:(
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Doctorandus_P on June 25, 2020, 10:19:01 pm
Triple Pendulum on a Cart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyN-CRNrb3E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyN-CRNrb3E)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 26, 2020, 03:05:52 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLTfMLaX820 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLTfMLaX820)

Inside tales and unique items from the history of science/technology.
 :popcorn:

He also has a very good 101 for metalworking and prototype building on his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/dgelbart/videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/dgelbart/videos)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 27, 2020, 05:47:44 pm
It's about time  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg)

- Complicated, but OK, got it!   :)
- So, what time is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY)

 :palm:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 29, 2020, 08:16:25 am
Hangover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re3oEKX6Fks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re3oEKX6Fks)

 :phew: 
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 02, 2020, 05:50:14 pm
"Do one thing and do it well".  Always loved that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2M-p-OGvPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2M-p-OGvPg)

A clever design from Leo's Bag of Tricks, a very promising YouTube channel!  :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 11, 2020, 10:53:50 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLh6UvLo14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLh6UvLo14)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 20, 2020, 12:40:13 pm
What's with all this recent fuss about measured CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5rZ58Q_0zk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5rZ58Q_0zk)

 ;)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: pidcon on July 21, 2020, 05:36:28 am
Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: pidcon on July 21, 2020, 05:37:24 am
World's Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzL6zPivtIQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzL6zPivtIQ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on July 22, 2020, 08:05:01 am
Which door?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnNdyCbwzn0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnNdyCbwzn0)

"Can you pass the salt, please?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nORRgU8sGdE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nORRgU8sGdE)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 22, 2020, 09:00:57 am
World's Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzL6zPivtIQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzL6zPivtIQ)

I didn't know about all the new applications.

It was intriguing that I couldn't find any good brief info about how it works.  Yes, the video mentions something about how it works, but doesn't teaches.  I've seen a few years ago similar videos with femptosecond cameras, and always wrongly assumed that the principle is similar with that of a sampling oscilloscope, but that is NOT how it works.

The genius of it is that the whole video (like the one with the light passing through a bottle, or the illuminated figurines) is computed out of only one single flash.  The video is not produced by taking repeated snapshots at each flash.  It is one single flash and one photo, and from there, the time evolution of the light is reconstructed (computed).  The movie is calculated, not filmed.  At least this is how I understood it so far.

Following the research papers, the working principles of femptosecond cameras originate in some apparently unrelated concepts that were started during WWII, then developed in the following years to improve (chirped) radar and sonar technologies.  At first it was about impulse stretching while keeping their shape (in analog domain).

Impulse stretching happens by passing the signal through a diffuser, then mixing the signal with a frequency chirp.  By the chirp type, ascending or descending in frequency, the original pulse can be stretched or compressed in time while still keeping its shape.  From there, it all went to building time lenses, or the opposite, to strongly sharpen wider pulses without destroying the vacuum tubes or the sonars, and so on.  Stretched signals were required to extract more details from the echoes, while compressed signals were required to sharpen the pulses sent to make echoes.  The sharper the sent pulses, the more precise the echoes.

Stretching is the first key concept, and from there there are many physics, RF, EE, optics and DSP tricks combined in making femptosecond cameras.  I just hope I didn't get it all wrong, still digging.  :)

So far it was a fascinating journey down the rabbit hole, thanks for bringing up this subject!   :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: pidcon on July 23, 2020, 07:57:28 am
Hi RoGeorge, I'm glad you liked the video. I was watching a series of videos on mathematics, and slowly the video recommendations on YouTube steered me towards these high-speed camera research. I'm sure there's more interesting videos on other research areas.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: chris_leyson on August 02, 2020, 01:38:34 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPKuxrrG7A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPKuxrrG7A)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 02, 2020, 11:12:53 pm
How radioactive are bananas and other radioactive foods?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdDKb9Bago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdDKb9Bago)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 09, 2020, 09:29:17 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3rvkpDsdg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3rvkpDsdg)

 :phew:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 11, 2020, 09:27:51 am
Steve Collin's Passive Dynamic Robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdK7opXqoro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdK7opXqoro)

No motors, no microcontrollers, just mechanics and gravity   :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 13, 2020, 07:54:28 pm
Intuitive explanations for Seebeck and Peltier effects   :-+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6waiEeXDGo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6waiEeXDGo)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on August 13, 2020, 08:57:35 pm
http://markoapparatus.com/portfolio/machine-clock/ (http://markoapparatus.com/portfolio/machine-clock/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 16, 2020, 03:10:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3STsKx3fI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3STsKx3fI)

Very long (3 hours and 5 minutes), but it doesn't make much sense unless watched entirely in one go.   :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 24, 2020, 04:07:02 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l36UkYtq6m0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l36UkYtq6m0)

Very short (15 seconds), but it doesn't make much sense unless watched entirely in one go.   :)



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Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 27, 2020, 06:22:32 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCsM265Lw0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCsM265Lw0)

The guinea pig one is wrong.   ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on August 27, 2020, 08:03:35 am
The guinea pig one is wrong.   ::)

How so?

It's just a visual version of the old joke:

A mathematician and physicist are standing on one side of a room.  On the other side, a prize sits on a pedestal.  The host says: "Each time I ring this bell, you may move half the distance to the prize.  The first one to get it wins!"
Mathematician: "This is dumb, I'll never get there."
Physicist: "I'll get close enough..."

Or more homologically: an infinite series of patrons walk into a bar.  The first orders a beer, the second half a beer, and so on.  The bartender rolls his eyes and pours two beers.

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 27, 2020, 10:29:02 am
The number of the threads of fur is finite, and also quantified, therefore the halving process cannot go forever.

The infinite halving is possible for numbers from R, but it's not possible for finite numbers from N, for example.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on August 27, 2020, 10:41:36 am
Ah yes, an example of this --
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/250/a-challenge-by-r-p-feynman-give-counter-intuitive-theorems-that-can-be-transl

I can assert my continued correctness by suggesting the figure is a virtual guinea pig, for which the fur might indeed be infinite, or even continuous.  It's solid shaded, after all. :P

And also on the subject of approximation, no haircut or shave is perfect, and leaving a few hairs would be a perfectly acceptable outcome (only needing some 14 or so trips to reach).  If it went on for a long time, we might note that real hair also grows, so our job might never be complete; this would be best illustrated with a different animal, the yak, the process of shaving for which is, by one definition, never complete. ;D

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 27, 2020, 01:11:47 pm
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/250/a-challenge-by-r-p-feynman-give-counter-intuitive-theorems-that-can-be-transl

Nice collection!  :D

My most recent favorite is not listed there:  Can you generate fair heads/tails tossing a slightly biased coin?  (von Neumann extractor)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 31, 2020, 11:17:31 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld-bG1CjkZY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld-bG1CjkZY)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 09, 2020, 03:08:55 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-GBkd1QafM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-GBkd1QafM)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 13, 2020, 06:05:58 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cg3zCVKhM&t=745 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cg3zCVKhM&t=745)

Smol osc demo at 12:25  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on September 13, 2020, 03:11:41 pm
Making sharp knives out of some very strange materials, e.g. eggs, Bismuth, mushrooms, chocolate, tofu ...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ/videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ/videos)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 16, 2020, 09:04:25 pm
Might be the next big thing   8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 20, 2020, 08:23:26 am
 :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhjqA8Lmj58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhjqA8Lmj58)

The only thing I understood how it works was the ratchet wheel.   ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 01, 2020, 08:44:09 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on October 01, 2020, 05:53:28 pm
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Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 08, 2020, 09:51:58 pm
This dude again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMAKamGIiMc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMAKamGIiMc)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 20, 2020, 01:14:59 pm
No brain required.  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rxf_2EgwfE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rxf_2EgwfE)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 26, 2020, 07:18:19 pm
Documentary "A video history of Japan's electronic industry":

Birth of The Transistor (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihkRwArnc1k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihkRwArnc1k)

 :o

Circuits in stone (Part 2) (https://youtu.be/uGRNXmWng3M)
The Calculator Wars (Part 3) (https://youtu.be/ansXGewduN4)
The technologial giant of the micron world (Part 4) (https://youtu.be/G40YwOg0_B8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 07, 2020, 10:45:33 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 11, 2020, 11:03:48 am
ScienceClic (French) (https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClic/videos)
ScienceClic English (https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN/videos)

Gold!   :-+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 16, 2020, 11:59:01 am
So many satellites floating around!  Zoom in a little.
https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 16, 2020, 05:28:44 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwj78pR46zM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwj78pR46zM)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 17, 2020, 09:37:48 pm
Screw history   ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMU8rH4PN8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMU8rH4PN8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 24, 2020, 10:33:20 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqz65_YfcJg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqz65_YfcJg)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on November 24, 2020, 04:07:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqz65_YfcJg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqz65_YfcJg)

 ;D

My question is why?

And that needle drop is waaay too slow.

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 27, 2020, 10:21:50 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBPFCvEhv9Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBPFCvEhv9Y)

Haltere?   ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on November 27, 2020, 03:01:18 pm
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Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 02, 2020, 11:11:51 pm
https://hackaday.com/2020/12/01/extracting-a-gate-from-amd-and-intel/ (https://hackaday.com/2020/12/01/extracting-a-gate-from-amd-and-intel/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQUXpZpLXI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQUXpZpLXI)

7nm \$\approx\$ 14nm?  :o

Part 1 and 2
https://youtu.be/uEMDkbF3hu0 (https://youtu.be/uEMDkbF3hu0)
https://youtu.be/pYF7Qym9Pq0 (https://youtu.be/pYF7Qym9Pq0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 03, 2020, 12:28:34 am
There are 4 more with even better explanations:

Inside i7-8700K - Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Footage (en)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_iu48VTRDE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_iu48VTRDE)

From the same channel:

Catching a single Transistor - We're looking inside the i9-9900K: Prep and expensive equipment 1/3, 2/3, 3/3
https://youtu.be/WOZqoTuAGKY (https://youtu.be/WOZqoTuAGKY)
https://youtu.be/VBCtsqs8278 (https://youtu.be/VBCtsqs8278)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtuUANbaEFI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtuUANbaEFI)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 20, 2020, 03:29:56 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3emGQ2-1uE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3emGQ2-1uE)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 25, 2020, 12:54:06 am
Time reversed optical waves   :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WcIejZd__w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WcIejZd__w)

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-physicists-time-reversed-optical.html (https://phys.org/news/2020-12-physicists-time-reversed-optical.html)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 29, 2020, 01:03:36 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqBh7G4uDR8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqBh7G4uDR8)

 ::)  Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 29, 2020, 08:45:56 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on December 29, 2020, 08:54:21 pm
Well, we all know what dancing leads to..

 :popcorn:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on December 31, 2020, 04:35:54 pm
Very nice channel: brusspup

https://www.youtube.com/user/brusspup/videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/brusspup/videos)

Example: the Schlieren Effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS6h_fkPgk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS6h_fkPgk)

Happy New Year 2021 to all of you
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 31, 2020, 11:59:38 pm
The mind, the conscientiousness and anything else is nothing but a driven illusion.  :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBap_Lp-0oc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBap_Lp-0oc)

So, just be nice and enjoy existing.   ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 05, 2021, 01:44:05 pm
Lissajous (source, https://www.otw20.com/viewtopic.php?p=2101#p2101 (https://www.otw20.com/viewtopic.php?p=2101#p2101))

(http://img1.reactor.cc/pics/post/%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B-%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B6%D1%83-6025647.gif)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on January 05, 2021, 02:31:21 pm
On the top row, odd harmonics:  f, 3f, 5f, 7f,   ...    , 19f
On the left column, even harmonics:  f, 2f, 4f, 6f,   ...   , 18f


Are you sure about this? If this would be the case, then you should not have all those circles in the diagonal. Hmmm ... 
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 05, 2021, 05:55:04 pm
Good catch!   :-+
Mistake deleted, my bad, sorry.

In the attached animation, both the rows and the columns have all frequencies, from f to 10f.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 09, 2021, 09:07:25 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XV2-pmiyAg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XV2-pmiyAg)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on January 09, 2021, 09:27:22 am
It seems as though the moon is tidally locked or something.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on January 10, 2021, 09:55:21 pm
A look back at EV racing over 3 years ago in Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq_PehccY20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq_PehccY20)
At 1:04, how many names do you recognize on the sign?
At 1:41, I think everyone here should recognize what car it is and why it's special.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 18, 2021, 06:26:16 pm
The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html (http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 22, 2021, 07:17:40 pm
Red Hot Nickel Ball in Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qSEfcIfYbw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qSEfcIfYbw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzdP_4j7xTI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzdP_4j7xTI)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on January 22, 2021, 10:17:34 pm
A look back at EV racing over 3 years ago in Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq_PehccY20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq_PehccY20)
At 1:04, how many names do you recognize on the sign?
At 1:41, I think everyone here should recognize what car it is and why it's special.

Is it just me or does she appear to have left the factory missing a crucial piece of software?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: cdev on January 23, 2021, 02:38:26 am
reminds me of lava underwater!

For example, the later part of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bZx0vBI9s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bZx0vBI9s)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 26, 2021, 11:13:43 am
AI playing hide and seek.   ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: bsfeechannel on January 26, 2021, 10:33:26 pm
This happens when you hire an engineer to dispose of a dead whale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 01, 2021, 11:48:06 am
If Rockets were Transparent   8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su9EVeHqizY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su9EVeHqizY)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 12, 2021, 03:09:50 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS3gp8QKl0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS3gp8QKl0)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on February 21, 2021, 12:16:11 am
Automatic pool stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 22, 2021, 01:06:00 pm
Mars in 4K   8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyAs3NWH4A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyAs3NWH4A)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 23, 2021, 01:42:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg)

No green people, disappointed!   >:(
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: bsfeechannel on February 23, 2021, 11:09:40 pm
In 1970, Lou Reed, wrote "Satellite of Love", released in 1972. In the song he predicts:

Satellite's gone way up to Mars
Soon it'll be filled with parkin' cars


That begs the question: how many cars (rovers, vehicles, whatever) do we already have parked on Mars?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 23, 2021, 11:14:16 pm
That begs the question: how many cars (rovers, vehicles, whatever) do we already have parked on Mars?
Duuude!   ;D

Maybe send some powering algae then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZxBV18tS4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZxBV18tS4)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Daixiwen on March 02, 2021, 07:38:05 am
When you spend too much time making test benches with corner cases

(https://i.redd.it/xy4my3f5buj61.png)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 04, 2021, 03:21:12 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S3FRENg43I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S3FRENg43I)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 07, 2021, 08:31:26 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBmhYqW0Xk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBmhYqW0Xk)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: langwadt on March 07, 2021, 08:41:31 pm
A look back at EV racing over 3 years ago in Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq_PehccY20 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq_PehccY20)
At 1:04, how many names do you recognize on the sign?
At 1:41, I think everyone here should recognize what car it is and why it's special.

Is it just me or does she appear to have left the factory missing a crucial piece of software?

they got side tracked installing bigger bumpers ;)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 09, 2021, 09:07:23 am
Look around 360°.   8)
With scroll and zoom.   :-+
On Mars!   :o

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210309.html
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on March 12, 2021, 03:36:05 pm
Bending spacetime - with woodturning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2nsBag3kk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2nsBag3kk)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 12, 2021, 04:57:10 pm
Bending spacetime - with woodturning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2nsBag3kk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2nsBag3kk)

Wow, cool!  I didn't realize before that stretching a plane of 2D squares in a 3rd dimension would be the same as cutting a hole in an array of non-stretched volume of cubes.   :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on March 12, 2021, 05:17:09 pm
This guy, Olivier Gomis, is really amazing! I can recommend the other videos of his channel as well.
And I do really like his sense of humour.  :-DD
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 13, 2021, 06:30:02 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orw7xd2EqyM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orw7xd2EqyM)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 14, 2021, 09:24:17 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6nVap7ka0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6nVap7ka0)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 15, 2021, 10:08:23 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrzalLssomg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrzalLssomg)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 17, 2021, 09:03:56 am
Quote
The Surface of Venus from Venera 13
Image Credit: Soviet Planetary Exploration Program, Venera 13;
Processing & Copyright: Donald Mitchell & Michael Carroll (used with permission)

Explanation: If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 13, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, and a featureless sky above Phoebe Regio near Venus' equator. On the lower left is the spacecraft's penetrometer used to make scientific measurements, while the light piece on the right is part of an ejected lens-cap. Enduring temperatures near 450 degrees Celsius and pressures 75 times that on Earth, the hardened Venera spacecraft lasted only about two hours. Although data from Venera 13 was beamed across the inner Solar System almost 40 years ago, digital processing and merging of Venera's unusual images continues even today. Recent analyses of infrared measurements taken by ESA's orbiting Venus Express spacecraft indicate that active volcanoes may currently exist on Venus.
Source:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210317.html

(https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2103/Venus_Venera13_1705.jpg)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 20, 2021, 12:43:20 pm
How Amateur Radio Fans Decoded SpaceX's Telemetry & Engineering Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74_N163HyhA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74_N163HyhA)

"Is ham radio dead?"   ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: themadhippy on March 25, 2021, 01:03:34 pm
The new uk £50 note looks like it will entertain us for a few hours
https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/turing-challenge (https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/turing-challenge)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on March 29, 2021, 10:16:23 pm
A bit of multivariate calculus to start your day :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ1VEmVjVo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ1VEmVjVo)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 01, 2021, 08:50:07 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1R3dTdcpSU&t=86s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1R3dTdcpSU&t=86s)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210401.html (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210401.html)   8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on April 10, 2021, 08:36:43 am
Logarithms explained in Bob-Ross-style.  :-+  :-DD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up21mvokyQ4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up21mvokyQ4)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 16, 2021, 04:18:04 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevIIQHrJZg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevIIQHrJZg)

Inflatable helical antenna.  Checked.   8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 18, 2021, 07:57:29 pm
What's all this Muon g-2 experiment, anyhow?   ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnTn0nJe5Ws (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnTn0nJe5Ws)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 21, 2021, 09:22:14 pm
"The Wavelet Tutorial" by Robi Polikar   :-+

(http://users.rowan.edu/~polikar/res/home/wavelet.gif)

Best introductory material so far, for building an intuition regarding Fourier Transform and Wavelet Transform.

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~baden/Doc/wavelets/polikar_wavelets.pdf (http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~baden/Doc/wavelets/polikar_wavelets.pdf)  1st Edition
https://web.iitd.ac.in/~sumeet/WaveletTutorial.pdf (https://web.iitd.ac.in/~sumeet/WaveletTutorial.pdf)  2nd Edition
http://users.rowan.edu/~polikar/WTtutorial.html (http://users.rowan.edu/~polikar/WTtutorial.html)  Webpage (the current website doesn't render the formulas, PDF versions recommended)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 23, 2021, 05:45:07 am
For all the intergalactic travelers, this is Earth, the night club planet w dancing lights.   8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqG42AD4Gw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqG42AD4Gw)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on April 24, 2021, 11:11:35 am
How to build a water computer?

Steve Mould has an answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 27, 2021, 08:38:21 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7kr7utvVEs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7kr7utvVEs)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 01, 2021, 02:12:50 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Nlu9W1X2s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Nlu9W1X2s)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 04, 2021, 07:06:57 am
Source:  https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210504.html (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210504.html)
(https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2105/IssSun_Ergun_1752.jpg)

Tune to The Diamond City Radio while looking at this^:   I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire - The Ink Spots (https://youtu.be/YAi7BW8rIpY?t=2493)   8)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on May 07, 2021, 05:51:12 am
Wood is piezoelectric

https://twitter.com/szeloof/status/1390037093926244353
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 09, 2021, 06:26:50 pm
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-perseverance-mars-rover-captures-video.html (https://phys.org/news/2021-05-perseverance-mars-rover-captures-video.html)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5niGi4k9vQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5niGi4k9vQ)

 :clap:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 27, 2021, 05:47:42 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0SgC78YFPc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0SgC78YFPc)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 29, 2021, 09:38:50 pm
Physics is overrated.   :rant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag)

Vrooom!   ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 01, 2021, 07:34:18 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV39CKFm0zo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV39CKFm0zo)

Vrooom!   :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 02, 2021, 12:52:30 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1MDOerruDU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1MDOerruDU)

Choo Choo Vrooom!   ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on June 02, 2021, 03:39:51 pm
What ever you do, don't show Elon that!
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 05, 2021, 04:20:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kv6KwADn7Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kv6KwADn7Q)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 18, 2021, 03:40:03 pm
Quote
"The fact that something has temperature is a reflection of the idea that it interacts with stuff around it," Sudhir says. "And it's harder to isolate larger objects from all the things happening around them."
Source:  https://phys.org/news/2021-06-physicists-human-scale-standstill-quantum-state.html

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 19, 2021, 02:39:47 pm
Individual electrons visualized with a ruler.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89714-2.pdf (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89714-2.pdf)
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-absorption-individual-electrons-captured-video.html (https://phys.org/news/2021-06-absorption-individual-electrons-captured-video.html)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXH9TiY0_Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXH9TiY0_Q)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on June 24, 2021, 01:59:01 pm
Physicists show that flying beer coasters will flip 0.45 seconds into flight

"University of Bonn physicists were inspired to investigate the aerodynamics of flying beer mats after traveling to Munich with a German physics demonstration show."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/the-physics-of-why-that-flying-beer-coaster-is-nothing-like-a-frisbee/ (https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/the-physics-of-why-that-flying-beer-coaster-is-nothing-like-a-frisbee/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 24, 2021, 07:08:57 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUv9Zda_48 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUv9Zda_48)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 25, 2021, 08:46:14 pm
m-Widar, like a RADAR, but uses many Tx points, sparsity, random patterns, correlation and a post processing technique called transient rendering (https://adamsmith.as/papers/ucsc-soe-08-26.pdf).  Can see you behind walls or indoors at 300+ kiloFPS!  :o

Quote
The transmitting antennas operated at frequencies from 200 megahertz to 10 gigahertz [...]. The receiver consisted of two antennas connected to a signal digitizer. The digitized data were transferred to a laptop computer and uploaded to the graphics processing unit to reconstruct the images.

The NIST team used the method to reconstruct a scene with 1.5 billion samples per second, a corresponding image frame rate of 366 kilohertz (frames per second). [...]

With 12 antennas, the NIST system generated 4096-pixel images, with a resolution of about 10 centimeters across a 10-meter scene.
Source:  https://phys.org/news/2021-06-method-radio-image-hidden.html
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 30, 2021, 03:40:35 pm
Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) for better homemade computer chips   8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoQgnC0Oz2k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoQgnC0Oz2k)
Source:  https://hackaday.com/2021/06/29/garage-semiconductor-fab-gets-reactive-ion-etching-upgrade/ (https://hackaday.com/2021/06/29/garage-semiconductor-fab-gets-reactive-ion-etching-upgrade/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on July 02, 2021, 06:58:50 am
Damn fine (up and coming?) science channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel/videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel/videos)

YT being what it is, I'm shocked I haven't seen this sooner; alas!

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 04, 2021, 09:18:32 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ScOUNAdlM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ScOUNAdlM)

Gold!   :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on July 12, 2021, 11:38:48 am
I can't see a problem here.
The topic is saying "Fun for nerds".
So, if someone here is finding this interesting (and having therefore a bit fun), then I'd call it on-topic.  :-+ :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 12, 2021, 12:16:52 pm
I can't see a problem here.
The topic is saying "Fun for nerds".
So, if someone here is finding this interesting (and having therefore a bit fun), then I'd call it on-topic.  :-+ :D

That's true, but also it would be a slippery slope.
Meanwhile I changed my mind, and deleted my previous offtopic post. 
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 18, 2021, 03:37:44 pm
The Story of Shor's Algorithm, Straight From the Source | Peter Shor   :popcorn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qD9XElTpCE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qD9XElTpCE)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 21, 2021, 08:45:17 pm
Heat conduction in crystals
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzrqSp3pTHI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzrqSp3pTHI)

Fourier would have loved that   ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 22, 2021, 04:32:45 pm
Operational Amplifier with Switchable Gain
All Electronics Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U85Y7ZQBsqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U85Y7ZQBsqc)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 23, 2021, 07:55:20 am
I Invented a New Material: Hydrophobic Slime
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkZJWHHSoY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkZJWHHSoY)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Sal Ammoniac on August 04, 2021, 05:57:12 pm
(https://forum.atheistrepublic.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/064c615e1131eca079f8ad4aa060467933d9fd55.jpeg)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on August 04, 2021, 09:37:37 pm
 :-DD

Well, then let's hope, that his wife isn't Sabine Hossenfelder or similar.  >:D  :box:

Her YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/sabinehossenfelder (https://www.youtube.com/c/sabinehossenfelder)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 04, 2021, 10:25:46 pm
(https://forum.atheistrepublic.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/064c615e1131eca079f8ad4aa060467933d9fd55.jpeg)



IDK, is the PIN = 3112, because the denominator seems to be just bait.   :-//

(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/?action=dlattach;attach=1242212;image)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 12, 2021, 09:36:03 am
Trapping Particles In a Beam of Light—The Optical Tweezers Experiment
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Tp5oswnNA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Tp5oswnNA)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 12, 2021, 05:27:32 pm
The Surprising Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 14, 2021, 07:08:21 am
Upgraded Homemade Silicon IC Fab Process
Sam Zeloof (https://www.youtube.com/c/SamZeloof/videos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 16, 2021, 07:29:36 am
Intel 486: 30 years old and still fascinating
From a new channel:   Micrographia   :-+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtA_9eYnj8U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtA_9eYnj8U)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 25, 2021, 11:51:50 pm
Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212
 :popcorn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIpUf-Vy2JA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIpUf-Vy2JA)

Same invitee, same podcast, part one from a year ago:
Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101 (https://youtu.be/P-2P3MSZrBM)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: jmelson on August 30, 2021, 02:31:47 am
HOLY crap!  That video by Sam Zeloof is totally incredible!  He sure has some serious test gear there, too!
Jon
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 09, 2021, 11:35:15 am
AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
AT&T Tech Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 16, 2021, 06:47:47 pm
Journey into a realistic Black Hole [VR 4K 360°],
an interactive :o video from ScienceClic English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17tEg_uTF_A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17tEg_uTF_A)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 19, 2021, 05:49:57 pm
HOW CAR DIFFERENTIAL WORKS
DISCOVER automoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRifTi6Eis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRifTi6Eis)

More of the same footage on the 'US Auto Industry' channel :
Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937) (https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI)
Spinning Levers - How A Transmission Works (1936) (https://youtu.be/JOLtS4VUcvQ)




The wheel is an infinite spinning lever.   ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 23, 2021, 07:55:23 pm
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain - with David Eagleman
The Royal Institution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rfbLZi4Eak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rfbLZi4Eak)

Brainzzz!   ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 26, 2021, 08:40:49 am
Underwater laser cutting and silver sintering to make ceramic circuit boards
Applied Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxXEI0Ce6C0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxXEI0Ce6C0)

sudo make ceramicPCB   8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 30, 2021, 05:33:54 pm
Your DNA is already in a database
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg)

???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 03, 2021, 06:03:05 pm
The HIDDEN Screws of PRECISION
Machine Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isVQMHmzHNo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isVQMHmzHNo)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 08, 2021, 09:32:36 am
Introducing The Rose Engine (Happy Anniversary, Mrs Clickspring.)
Clickspring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3aCAQjC88 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3aCAQjC88)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 11, 2021, 06:28:52 pm
Is It Possible To Bend Light With Your Finger? The Light Bender Experiment
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eouvsy8JdLU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eouvsy8JdLU)

No need for  8)  if you have  :-+
 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 13, 2021, 12:24:02 pm
How To Separate Alcohol And Water
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5wuMGNsdHk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5wuMGNsdHk)

You can remove the water from your Isopropyl alcohol?!   ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 19, 2021, 11:59:54 am
Harmonic Distortion and Nonlinearity (live demo of waveform symmetry vs harmonics order content)
All Electronics Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acWZLW5EE3U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acWZLW5EE3U)

Seeing is believing   :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 20, 2021, 11:56:11 am
Magnetic Locking WITHOUT a Superconductor!
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5FyFvgxUhE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5FyFvgxUhE)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 21, 2021, 09:38:40 am
Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #232
Lex Fridman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98HZanvAJ8Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98HZanvAJ8Y)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 25, 2021, 06:10:08 pm
This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, Slacklines
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_OpWiyijU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_OpWiyijU)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 28, 2021, 04:40:59 pm
Can you change a sum by rearranging its numbers? --- The Riemann Series Theorem
Morphocular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0w0f0PDdPA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0w0f0PDdPA)

:o   Can somebody please ban infinity from math!?   :rant:
So we won't have to deal with such outrageous outcomes?!




P.S.  3blue1brown together with Leios Labs organized a competition of "visual math" videos, if we can use such a name, and they made a playlist of about 200+ video entries (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuWmJ-6ZM-Z).  Most of them are outstanding.  This one was from that playlist.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 08, 2021, 11:02:11 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF6x1ftN-H4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF6x1ftN-H4)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 12, 2021, 09:31:32 am
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Extreme Teardown
electronupdate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6477JFdpqew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6477JFdpqew)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 18, 2021, 10:18:49 am
Making Cold Light (Cryogenically Induced Phosphorescence)
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBk5lNw8Bo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBk5lNw8Bo)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 20, 2021, 01:35:46 am
The Big Misconception About Electricity
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY)

 :rant:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 22, 2021, 09:58:57 pm
Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton
Journey to the Microcosmos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZZ_RmpzSFQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZZ_RmpzSFQ)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 27, 2021, 02:45:29 pm
(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/?action=dlattach;attach=1333424;image)
All rights belongs to the owner(s), not my pic. (https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-tor)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 28, 2021, 07:47:49 am
What Does An Electron Look Like When You Rotate It?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKKy2mmsziI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKKy2mmsziI)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 02, 2021, 12:02:00 pm
Quote
What did Yoda say when he saw himself in 4k?

HDMI
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on December 02, 2021, 12:14:09 pm
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 07, 2021, 12:15:18 pm
(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/?action=dlattach;attach=1343051;image)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 13, 2021, 04:17:56 pm
How Does This App Blow Out Candles?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6XSs2T5Go (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6XSs2T5Go)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 18, 2021, 02:13:27 pm
Björk talking about her TV (subtitled)
igorbuenocorrea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX9y6AA5oOo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX9y6AA5oOo)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 19, 2021, 08:19:53 am
The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope
Real Engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICaAEXDJQQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICaAEXDJQQ)

The launching is in 5 days, 24th of December 2021   :scared:
URGENT: Somebody please notify Santa about this!
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on December 21, 2021, 09:14:00 am
First step to Schroedinger's cat: Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade

https://www.iflscience.com/physics/tardigrade-might-be-first-animal-to-be-quantum-entangled-and-live/ (https://www.iflscience.com/physics/tardigrade-might-be-first-animal-to-be-quantum-entangled-and-live/)


https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07978 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07978)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 21, 2021, 03:22:42 pm
Ultrasonic Standing Wave Visualisation
chrismurray72

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7nQNC7CQo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7nQNC7CQo)

Cool visualization  :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on December 24, 2021, 01:05:51 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ctjb1BFKE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ctjb1BFKE)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 13, 2022, 03:05:44 am
Russian phone dialler using interesting magnetic memory tech
mikeselectricstuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPT6nIRFI_I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPT6nIRFI_I)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 14, 2022, 03:00:41 pm
The Real Reason a String Launcher Works
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ANnMsyunkk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ANnMsyunkk)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 15, 2022, 06:55:36 pm
Well, yeah, this same dude again:

Building An Ion Trap To Levitate Particles
The Action Lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW9YQaUS5RM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW9YQaUS5RM)

but then, to make sense out of that you'll most probably need to watch this one first:
The Odd Behavior of Spinning Saddle Shapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NBOsELakx4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NBOsELakx4)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 15, 2022, 07:29:40 pm
Bottle-to-Bottle Honey Production | Contactless Beekeeping
Advoko MAKES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItlOFLTUAs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItlOFLTUAs)

That's sweet, I guess...  :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 17, 2022, 06:39:14 pm
Australian Walking Stick Insects Are Three Times Weirder Than You Think | Deep Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y-bCfKUrU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y-bCfKUrU)

Just like these ants, would we notice if extraterrestrials were to live between us, humans?
 :-X
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 18, 2022, 12:47:40 pm
Mechanical Fourier Transform calculators:

The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of | Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w)



(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer | engineerguy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg)

(2/4) Synthesis: A machine that uses gears, springs and levers to add sines and cosines (https://youtu.be/8KmVDxkia_w)
(3/4) Analysis: Explaining Fourier analysis with a machine (https://youtu.be/6dW6VYXp9HM)
(4/4) Operation: The details of setting up the Harmonic Analyzer (https://youtu.be/jfH-NbsmvD4)

 :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Dakkahun on January 19, 2022, 02:59:21 pm
Using TE to detect malware:

Virus detection system using a Raspberry Pi, an H-field probe and an oscilloscope
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-raspberry-pi-viruses-devices-software.html (https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-raspberry-pi-viruses-devices-software.html)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 20, 2022, 12:49:13 pm
Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGwJLXzHs8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGwJLXzHs8)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 24, 2022, 08:54:24 pm
The importance of namespacing.
(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/?action=dlattach;attach=1390871;image)
Stolen from https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/its-all-about-jokes-funny-pics.286/page-36#post-552572 (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/its-all-about-jokes-funny-pics.286/page-36#post-552572)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on January 24, 2022, 11:33:36 pm
Some ppl I know can still drink coffee really, really hot. Weirdos.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: cdev on January 25, 2022, 12:13:10 am
Wow!
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 25, 2022, 12:36:48 am
Maybe they are from a different namespace.  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: cdev on January 25, 2022, 06:14:06 pm
Very nice!  I have always loved clear acrylic stuff.

Wish I had a local ewaste place like she does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ctjb1BFKE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ctjb1BFKE)

This is a super cool way to make a boring workshop area shine.
Wonder if there was any way to make it ESD-safe, Maybe embedding thin wires in the desktop, or soldering a single ground wire to all the pieces of PCB inside and then making it available to connect to might do it? I would worry about ESD with acrylic countertop, Could put an ESD mat on it, I suppose.

Nice!
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 26, 2022, 04:26:46 pm
CG short film about seduction | "Hot dog" - by Burban, Cameron, Diaz, Raimondo and Valin
KIS KIS - keep it short

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS1Rd9pQk8U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS1Rd9pQk8U)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 27, 2022, 08:55:10 am
God testing a software | "Tales from the Multiverse" - by Tumblehead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToTgcBRC4FE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToTgcBRC4FE)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 29, 2022, 02:06:54 pm
IMS & RFIC 2021 keynote "Transceiver Roadmap for 2035 and Beyond" by Bram Nauta.
icdutwentenl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3y8ADudPBA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3y8ADudPBA)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on January 29, 2022, 02:50:43 pm
Wonder if there was any way to make it ESD-safe, Maybe embedding thin wires in the desktop, or soldering a single ground wire to all the pieces of PCB inside and then making it available to connect to might do it? I would worry about ESD with acrylic countertop, Could put an ESD mat on it, I suppose.
Perhaps mixing some fine carbon dust into the topmost epoxy layer would make it conductive enough without obscuring the transparency too much.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 31, 2022, 08:56:57 am
Who Has The Best Quantum Computer?
DoS - Domain of Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcbMKt079l8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcbMKt079l8)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 03, 2022, 05:15:22 pm
You Use Quantum Physics to Smell
DoS - Domain of Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsJIVXkrGQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsJIVXkrGQ)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 04, 2022, 03:34:27 pm
A Simple Explanation of Quantum Wavefunctions
DoS - Domain of Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOI4DlWQ_1w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOI4DlWQ_1w)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 05, 2022, 12:29:15 pm
Black Hole Mergers and Multi-Messenger Astronomy - Sixty Symbols
Sixty Symbols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSUlCB0gNK8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSUlCB0gNK8)

The interferometer to (astro)physicist is just like the SDR to (ham)EE.  ;D



LIGO is so sensitive I bet it can even detect the Luminiferous Ether, and if I were to have my own LIGO, pretty obvious the Michelson-Morley would be the very first experiment I would do.  ^-^

Why nobody is trying that any more?  Disappointed.  >:(
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 06, 2022, 05:22:14 pm
Ray Holt and the history of MP944/Cadc @ Rome Technopole, 2017
Leo Sorge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GROYRkWvxc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GROYRkWvxc)

Intel 4004 was not the first microprocessor.  :o

The first microprocessor was Ray Holt's MP944, designed for the F-14 fighter jets and therefore kept secret.
https://firstmicroprocessor.com/documents/ (https://firstmicroprocessor.com/documents/)

\[\star \ \star \ \star\]
LATER EDIT:
https://computerhistory.org/blog/who-invented-the-microprocessor/ (https://computerhistory.org/blog/who-invented-the-microprocessor/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on February 06, 2022, 08:07:29 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA)

Relevant to current events [Wordle is very popular atm], but also CS, SE/CE and indeed EE and more. :)

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 12, 2022, 04:38:57 pm
Minus sex not good!  ;D

Code: [Select]
$ python3
Python 3.8.12 (default, Jan  2 2022, 01:12:07)
[Clang 11.0.1 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-11.0.1-0-g43ff75f2c on
freebsd13

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> a = -5
>>> b = -5

>>> a is b
True

>>> a = -6
>>> b = -6

>>> a is b
False
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on February 13, 2022, 03:03:10 pm
https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/spute4/the_ultimate_separation_science_technique/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/spute4/the_ultimate_separation_science_technique/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 14, 2022, 04:31:16 pm
Plasmas and Rainbows!
Jefferson Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hq1VZVpl-o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hq1VZVpl-o)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: old-jo on February 15, 2022, 02:17:15 am
https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/spute4/the_ultimate_separation_science_technique/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/spute4/the_ultimate_separation_science_technique/)

Hillarious straight from the very beginning!

> Abstract: Nothing we can write is funnier than a journal called Anal. Chem.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 15, 2022, 05:56:34 pm
What Happens When a Liquid Turns Supercritical?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv4sE7R8QO4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv4sE7R8QO4)

Real magic!  :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 15, 2022, 11:38:06 pm
ASTERNAUTS - Award-winning Sci Fi Comedy Short Film [EN]
MovieBrats Pictures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYBF2v0pbCM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYBF2v0pbCM)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on February 17, 2022, 02:52:27 am
What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldus7uAeKZU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldus7uAeKZU)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 20, 2022, 09:34:14 am
(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/soviet-oscilloscopes/?action=dlattach;attach=1419793;image)
Pic stolen from didyman:  https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/soviet-oscilloscopes/msg4019920/#msg4019920 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/soviet-oscilloscopes/msg4019920/#msg4019920)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on February 20, 2022, 09:38:54 am
Same to you!
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 21, 2022, 10:47:05 pm
The Engineering Puzzle of Storing Trillions of Bits in your Smartphone / SSD using Quantum Mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f2xOxRGKqk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f2xOxRGKqk)


Live long and solder.
Stolen from GreggD.

Live long and solder!   8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 01, 2022, 10:49:44 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI)

Visiting a metrologist at work.  8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on March 01, 2022, 11:18:41 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnwIiw3Rz3I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnwIiw3Rz3I)

Throwing fast discs.  :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 01, 2022, 02:27:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg)

Analog computers are making a comeback, by doing analog matrix multiplication needed in AI by repurposing flash memories cells to do analog multiplication instead of data storage (see from minute 15:50 for how it's done).   :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 02, 2022, 06:25:23 pm
Dubmood - Mario Airlines
ThePrimeHelios
Artist: Dubmood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfs4A-TFd74 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfs4A-TFd74)

An 8bit sound-like song  8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on March 04, 2022, 09:42:57 am
Blowing up capacitors - in slow motion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUxgmMDts4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUxgmMDts4)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: timenutgoblin on March 06, 2022, 01:53:34 pm
Not sure if this has been posted already...

Suppose you have a right-angled triangle with a shorter side of length 'a' and the hypotenuse has a length of zero, what is the length of the third side?

Hint: use your imagination.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on March 06, 2022, 09:37:25 pm
-42
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 11, 2022, 08:09:29 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSU_Xes3GQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSU_Xes3GQ)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 20, 2022, 10:06:07 pm
A Briefly Famous Star (and calibrating the JWST)
Sixty Symbols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbj8pMfK9Ek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbj8pMfK9Ek)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 22, 2022, 06:12:12 pm
Quote
1 / 998001 = 0.000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 ... 996 997 999 ...

Decimals grouped by 3 are nicely counting up, all but 998 who's missing.  :D
Code: [Select]
python3
>>> from decimal import *
>>> # set precision to 2992 decimals
>>> getcontext().prec = 2992
>>> Decimal(1)/Decimal(998001)
Decimal('0.000001002003004005006007008009010011012013014015016017018019020021022023024025026027028029030031032033034035036037038039040041042043044045046047048049050051052053054055056057058059060061062063064065066067068069070071072073074075076077078079080081082083084085086087088089090091092093094095096097098099100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160161162163164165166167168169170171172173174175176177178179180181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197198199200201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230231232233234235236237238239240241242243244245246247248249250251252253254255256257258259260261262263264265266267268269270271272273274275276277278279280281282283284285286287288289290291292293294295296297298299300301302303304305306307308309310311312313314315316317318319320321322323324325326327328329330331332333334335336337338339340341342343344345346347348349350351352353354355356357358359360361362363364365366367368369370371372373374375376377378379380381382383384385386387388389390391392393394395396397398399400401402403404405406407408409410411412413414415416417418419420421422423424425426427428429430431432433434435436437438439440441442443444445446447448449450451452453454455456457458459460461462463464465466467468469470471472473474475476477478479480481482483484485486487488489490491492493494495496497498499500501502503504505506507508509510511512513514515516517518519520521522523524525526527528529530531532533534535536537538539540541542543544545546547548549550551552553554555556557558559560561562563564565566567568569570571572573574575576577578579580581582583584585586587588589590591592593594595596597598599600601602603604605606607608609610611612613614615616617618619620621622623624625626627628629630631632633634635636637638639640641642643644645646647648649650651652653654655656657658659660661662663664665666667668669670671672673674675676677678679680681682683684685686687688689690691692693694695696697698699700701702703704705706707708709710711712713714715716717718719720721722723724725726727728729730731732733734735736737738739740741742743744745746747748749750751752753754755756757758759760761762763764765766767768769770771772773774775776777778779780781782783784785786787788789790791792793794795796797798799800801802803804805806807808809810811812813814815816817818819820821822823824825826827828829830831832833834835836837838839840841842843844845846847848849850851852853854855856857858859860861862863864865866867868869870871872873874875876877878879880881882883884885886887888889890891892893894895896897898899900901902903904905906907908909910911912913914915916917918919920921922923924925926927928929930931932933934935936937938939940941942943944945946947948949950951952953954955956957958959960961962963964965966967968969970971972973974975976977978979980981982983984985986987988989990991992993994995996997999')
>>>
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 23, 2022, 04:35:37 pm
How to Make a Schlieren Image of a Tesla Coil
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQd93rjf8lQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQd93rjf8lQ)

 >:D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 27, 2022, 07:22:07 pm
How Do Gyroscopes Lift Themselves Up?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9RRLdcSZc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9RRLdcSZc)

As if gyroscopes and precession were not hard enough,
Let's put that on rollers and cut it in half...   :scared:
 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 29, 2022, 08:36:25 pm
I'm Back!
Zogg from Betelgeuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GCkPW-OHU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GCkPW-OHU)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 30, 2022, 09:02:12 am
Marconi magnetic detector demonstration
glasslinger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CAxWoKD-fw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CAxWoKD-fw)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on April 01, 2022, 10:25:07 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOB9SSdDfU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOB9SSdDfU)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 03, 2022, 10:07:53 am
Series circuit - 3 LEDs
Henryk Gasperowicz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTvDjhImwo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTvDjhImwo)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 05, 2022, 05:38:19 pm
Honeypot Ants Turn Their Biggest Sisters into Jugs of Nectar
Deep Look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rid_YW3P8CA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rid_YW3P8CA)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: timenutgoblin on April 07, 2022, 12:53:20 pm
ASMR Satisfying Chip Capacitor Solder Reflow  :popcorn:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyd0ydGNMA
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 07, 2022, 02:23:06 pm
Nice close-up!

Though, it looks like the solder didn't wet to the PCB pads very well, is it?  I was expecting the solder to wet the PCB pads, and to flow more on the PCB pads, too, so to to produce a concave solder joint surface.  Here, the final solder surface is convex, in the shape of a half small bubble (on the capacitor's pad). 

I'm not experienced enough in SMD reflow, isn't it too little solder paste there?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: timenutgoblin on April 08, 2022, 11:51:51 am
I agree with your observations. I cannot speak for the video or the setup that was used. I think the video is intended for demonstration purposes. I think they used a test jig for this, but I don't know.

It looks like the capacitor is 0402 (imperial) or maybe smaller? It might explain the visible solder balls in the paste. It would be interesting to know the soldering standards for Class 1, 2 and 3, etc.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on April 12, 2022, 02:27:28 pm
Fun with electrical shocks in the 1860's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqbLSisnME (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqbLSisnME)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 12, 2022, 04:29:10 pm
The book he was talking about:  The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring by Arnold and Cahill (https://archive.org/details/magiciansownbook00arno), published in the year 1862.  :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 13, 2022, 10:32:08 pm
1958 "ABOVE AND BEYOND" NASA SOLDER & SOLDERING TECHNIQUES ELECTRONICS INSTRUCTIONAL FILM XD48824
PeriscopeFilm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RXugDd0xik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RXugDd0xik)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 18, 2022, 04:07:37 pm
Gridfinity: Your Ultimate Modular Workshop is FREE!
Zack Freedman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8)

lab@home:~$ sudo workbench aoutoclean  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on April 21, 2022, 01:01:00 pm
An old clock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xgBS_kDNw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xgBS_kDNw)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Gregg on April 22, 2022, 12:00:32 am
Here are some pictures of the clockworks in the Sather Tower at UC Berkeley:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on April 22, 2022, 07:07:46 am
How to make a monolithic telescope

Part 1: Optical design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOvnubFE8M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOvnubFE8M)

Part 2: Machining glass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0bysBIj0FA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0bysBIj0FA)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on April 22, 2022, 08:22:52 am
I don't have photos, kinda obviously, but just something neat.  On my walk tonight, saw a train of rather fast moving dots in the sky.  Looked like a blur at a distance, but was obviously a train of dots once overhead.  Which must've been a new launch of satellites.  Probably Starlink then?

And indeed, there was a Group 4-14 launch earlier today, so there you have it.

The sighting was approx. 8:40-8:50 pm CDT, which gives you a pretty good idea where I was at. ;D

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 25, 2022, 09:53:31 am
...
On my walk tonight, saw a train of rather fast moving dots in the sky.
...
:-+

...
And indeed, there was a Group 4-14 launch earlier today, so there you have it.
...

This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkmhY_ju8o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkmhY_ju8o)
EXCLUSIVE: Buzz Aldrin Confirms UFO Sighting in Syfy's 'Aliens on the Moon'

8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on April 25, 2022, 10:34:51 am
I'm confused. One minute they say that nobody really went to the moon, then the next minute they say there are moon bases all over the other side.

 ::)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 25, 2022, 11:56:05 am
The Outer Limits ( 1963-65 ) S01E01 - The Galaxy Being
Monster Horror Mystery Channel

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4cmrhr (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4cmrhr)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: MegaVolt on April 25, 2022, 02:01:01 pm
I'm confused. One minute they say that nobody really went to the moon, then the next minute they say there are moon bases all over the other side.

 ::)
These are aliens bases. They were built by aliens. And people from the earth did not fly :)))))))))))))))))
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 25, 2022, 02:57:15 pm
Moon bases:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jth4yATniS4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jth4yATniS4)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 26, 2022, 08:47:43 am
What does the James Webb Use to See the Universe?
Curious Droid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVByTTYJF3M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVByTTYJF3M)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on April 26, 2022, 11:20:44 am
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i18ft (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i18ft)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 26, 2022, 12:15:54 pm
"Morning, Mr. Freeman. Looks like you're running late. (https://youtu.be/oEgO16JaW4Y)"

Californium (new) - Periodic Table of Videos
Periodic Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0wtKOG8trE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0wtKOG8trE)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 26, 2022, 12:40:56 pm
How to make an Electrostatic Polarity Detector(Electric Field Detector)
Thomas Kim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptwVzK7cK0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptwVzK7cK0)

Schematic is at minute 7:14  :-DMM
Can be used for this, too:

Lightning Detector Circuit Experiment (Electric Field Detector)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtYt_f6fj8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtYt_f6fj8)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 28, 2022, 06:33:05 am
Homemade Solar-Powered CNC Engraver
Cranktown City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-ny20IhV0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-ny20IhV0)

LASER Fusion engraver head!   8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 02, 2022, 04:31:28 pm
You have a disconnected mains transformer, and with no load attached (open secondary).
At what moment in the sinusoidal mains voltage do you connect the primary to the mains?

a.  During a zero-crossing in the sinusoidal mains voltage.   :palm:
b.  During a peak voltage in the sinusoidal mains voltage.   :-+
 ???

Why?

ElectronicBits#10: Connecting inductive loads to the power line
Sam Ben-Yaakov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWpc_TfMLM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWpc_TfMLM)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 05, 2022, 10:47:21 pm
The Bit Player | Claude Shannon | Father of Information Theory | IEEE Information Theory Society
Vaibhav Patil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1Ljp8X6hg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1Ljp8X6hg)

Also found out about Claude Berrou's Turbocodes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_code)  8)
Near Shannon Limit Error-Correcting Coding and Decoding: Turbo-Codes (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.135.9318&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

and discovered the voice of Teddy Grace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twsXAOPmyvg&list=OLAK5uy_mlQ88bsNfxnXbGdIiqjNOeM05rIaq5SMs&index=17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twsXAOPmyvg&list=OLAK5uy_mlQ88bsNfxnXbGdIiqjNOeM05rIaq5SMs&index=17)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 07, 2022, 07:49:19 pm
Making Skin That Moves on Its Own
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x679Ee8WgQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x679Ee8WgQ)

It's alive!  :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 08, 2022, 07:36:25 am
Creating 10 apps in Python with PySimpleGUI
Clear Code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeMaWQZllhg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeMaWQZllhg)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 12, 2022, 10:55:15 pm
A Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bSDnuIPbo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bSDnuIPbo)

Phased arrays are cool!  8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 16, 2022, 07:59:36 am
Solar, low energy Curie motor
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Q0r13tm74 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Q0r13tm74)

 :)

Quote
A 0.2 mm alumel wire is attached to the circumference of a mica disc with thin copper wire. This alloy has a Curie point of 152°C and consists of 90.7% nickel, 3.1% manganese, 4.2% aluminum and 2.0% silicon. The low Curie point and the low-friction bearing allow operation with a 50 mm burning glass.
Source:  From the video description
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 17, 2022, 05:53:56 pm
20W Fiber Laser Etching PCB Coil
DIY-Optics dot com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a98qVMOqvDs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a98qVMOqvDs)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 22, 2022, 06:39:36 pm
TSP #207 - Teardown & Detailed Analysis of Qualcomm's 60GHz Multi-Panel Phased Array WiGig System
The Signal Path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9fvAcNpdk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9fvAcNpdk)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 23, 2022, 09:22:14 am
Slowing The Speed of Light Down To 2 m/s—What Special Relativity Feels Like
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqihUBGuZ8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqihUBGuZ8)

 :-//
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on May 23, 2022, 08:37:09 pm
3blue1brown is discussing this little innocent task:

"Find the number of subsets of {1, ..., 2000}, the sum of whose elements is divisible by 5."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXCLR3Wric (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXCLR3Wric)

Spoiler:
It includes complex numbers and a reference to the Riemann Zeta-function.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 01, 2022, 04:01:00 pm
Learning to Teleport
Buttered Side Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDY5fTXAfg0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDY5fTXAfg0)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on June 04, 2022, 08:55:07 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1erTlXVv0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1erTlXVv0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 04, 2022, 11:30:49 am
Magnets are mad crazy, indeed!  ;D

Eddy current experiment with HDD components
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAHlAYg4Tok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAHlAYg4Tok)

Eddy current experiment with big Heat Sink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS6rI60Sne4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS6rI60Sne4)

NETHERLANDS: BRITISH & DUTCH SCIENTISTS MAKE FROG FLOAT IN MID-AIR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJsVqc0ywM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJsVqc0ywM)

Everything Is Magnetic! Moving Water With Magnets And Levitating Frogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMDRqKmqVNs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMDRqKmqVNs)

Then there is the Levitron, that apparently defies Earnshaw's theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnshaw%27s_theorem)

Levitation with the Levitron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMVtlNbMwHw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMVtlNbMwHw)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 06, 2022, 12:59:37 pm
Laser Decapsulation SSD CPU RAM
DIY-Optics dot com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja6jD6UCXYs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja6jD6UCXYs)

 8)

Quote
namregpxp, 1 hour ago
How do you got such a machine?

DIY-Optics dot com, 1 hour ago
I bought mine from Cloudray. It's a 20W, 120ns fiber laser with 10kW peak power. You can process with it a variety of materials but mainly metals.. Marking, engraving, cleaning, cutting, heat treatment, decapsulation, color marking, PCB prototyping and a lot more

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 19, 2022, 07:53:18 am
Dynamic balancing with a scope and small speaker
Matthias random stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGGJYXjE5s0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGGJYXjE5s0)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 23, 2022, 05:29:11 pm
How Does The Wyrd Mechanism Work?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7aHTa47Oc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7aHTa47Oc)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 28, 2022, 11:59:36 am
OpenAI Codex Live Demo
OpenAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on July 02, 2022, 04:22:11 pm
Mullard is showing how to produce vacuum tubes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCWejeRR_s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCWejeRR_s)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 03, 2022, 03:12:30 pm
Can Gyroscopes Provide Free Energy For The Planet?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsgG00puMWo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsgG00puMWo)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on July 04, 2022, 05:50:46 am
Returning to the moon would be shocking.  :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK57JJ5MMCA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK57JJ5MMCA)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on July 09, 2022, 01:29:31 pm
A review of some games which are quantum physics based by Sabine Hossenfelder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdC4QPoAEaA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdC4QPoAEaA)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Neper on July 09, 2022, 01:46:00 pm
Mullard is showing how to produce vacuum tubes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCWejeRR_s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCWejeRR_s)

Here's how to make one at home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKast1BZ_aE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKast1BZ_aE)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 10, 2022, 10:12:56 am
Burning Pictures on a Compact Disc Surface
arduinocelentano
Source:    https://hackaday.io/project/186303-burning-pictures-on-a-compact-disc-surface
Sources:  https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage

(https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/8319151657431940854.jpg)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on July 10, 2022, 11:21:07 am
That's really burning a disk image.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on July 14, 2022, 09:13:07 am
I've learnt something new about Star Trek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7598IX5N2c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7598IX5N2c)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 16, 2022, 07:15:59 pm
How Does The Anti-Gravity Wheel Work?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwx12kwgOAM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwx12kwgOAM)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 22, 2022, 01:29:55 pm
Iodine Satellites - Periodic Table of Videos
Periodic Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ljJyIrakg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ljJyIrakg)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 23, 2022, 08:33:55 pm
DIY Adaptive Optics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiaW2Memqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiaW2Memqc)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 24, 2022, 07:46:31 am
After finding out that Intel 4004 was not the first microprocessor (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/msg3990257/#msg3990257), now this, transistor 25 years before the transistor:  :palm:
Quote
Losev conducted some of the earliest research into semiconductors, publishing 43 papers and receiving 16 "author's certificates" (the Soviet version of patents) for his discoveries.  He observed light emission from carborundum point-contact junctions, constructing a light-emitting diode (LED), did the first research on them, proposed the first correct theory of how they worked, and used them in practical applications such as electroluminescence.  He explored negative resistance in semiconductor junctions, and was first to use them practically for amplification, building the first solid-state amplifiers, electronic oscillators, and superheterodyne radio receivers, 25 years before the invention of the transistor.
From:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Losev#Solid-state_electronics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Losev#Solid-state_electronics)

My entire life is a lie.
 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on July 24, 2022, 01:47:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJbJYViUog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJbJYViUog)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 30, 2022, 02:41:30 pm
Voyager 1 and 2 Detected Something Beyond the Edge of Our Solar System
Astrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWlXDRsfYAA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWlXDRsfYAA)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 31, 2022, 04:33:45 pm
Superposition in Quantum Computers - Computerphile
Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-YXKRUheQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-YXKRUheQ)

Yes, that's exactly why I think it can be done with analog (AC) computing and no zombie cats thank you!  :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 02, 2022, 10:10:53 am
The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along The Way | Compilation
Journey to the Microcosmos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHagS6PT4Dg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHagS6PT4Dg)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 03, 2022, 05:11:12 pm
Are We Living In a Dream?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDm4Ipnn4I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDm4Ipnn4I)

:scared:  - OMG, OMG, so it's not turtles all the way down?!
    8)  - Nope.  It's Inception all the way down.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on August 05, 2022, 04:54:15 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3lR2GLgT0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3lR2GLgT0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 06, 2022, 08:21:27 am
TNP #20 - Teardown, Repair & Experiments with Stanford Research Systems SR830 DSP Lock-in Amplifier
https://www.youtube.com/c/Thesignalpath (https://www.youtube.com/c/Thesignalpath)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=figDqnsQD88 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=figDqnsQD88)

Neat way to match diodes!  :-+

Same idea (of building a symmetric circuit then measure the symmetry of its waveform by looking at the second harmonic) should work to pair any other type of non linear components, too.  :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on August 09, 2022, 05:54:40 am
I think Shatner is going to out live the rest of them.

Whose with me?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 12, 2022, 07:29:02 pm
4K CABVIEW: Aurora borealis, northern lights, visible in August! 🤩
RailCowGirl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvm0Z-_RIJk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvm0Z-_RIJk)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 13, 2022, 05:33:40 pm
The Nescafé Equation (43 coffee beans) - Numberphile
Numberphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V84Bi-mzQM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V84Bi-mzQM)

 :-DMM



The fuel consumption of a car is 5 liters / 100km.
1L == 0.001m3
100km == 100 000m
1m == 1 000mm

5L/100km ==  5*0.001m3/100000m == 0.05x10-6m2 == 0.05(mm)2
so the fuel consumption of that car is fifty mili square-milimeters.  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 20, 2022, 04:58:05 am
Bell Labs - The Company that Invented the Future
Curious Droid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eksTJOmlxbU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eksTJOmlxbU)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on August 21, 2022, 03:57:23 am
Neat visibility demo: https://moxil-shah.github.io/Isovist-Sandbox/ (https://moxil-shah.github.io/Isovist-Sandbox/)

Wonder if they're going to put a 3D view on it sometime, heh.

I'm reminded of some demos (https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/Images/LinesApplet2.png) I did years ago. :)

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 30, 2022, 03:56:28 pm
An intuitive explanation of fractional turn transformers
Sam Ben-Yaakov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTNAjCe9vw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTNAjCe9vw)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 31, 2022, 08:56:00 pm
World's Highest Jumping Robot
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daaDuC1kbds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daaDuC1kbds)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 01, 2022, 08:27:23 am
How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?
Branch Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2QcycggWU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2QcycggWU)

 :clap:  for the content quality, clarity, and for the outstanding CGI.



A teardown of the real thing:

TSP #181 - Starlink Dish Phased Array Design, Architecture & RF In-depth Analysis
The Signal Path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MfM8EFkGg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MfM8EFkGg)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 02, 2022, 06:08:02 am
How We Accidentally Started Making Infinite Robots
Real Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1l4aXh1UG8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1l4aXh1UG8)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 03, 2022, 04:57:44 am
Nanotech Video Vinyl: The Remarkable CED | Micrographia
Breaking Taps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbyxtJ1H8k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbyxtJ1H8k)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on September 06, 2022, 11:55:25 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1C-41tq64 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1C-41tq64)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on September 07, 2022, 12:10:22 am

video:  New (LTE) Rotary Cell Phone

Doesn't fit into a shoe.    :--



 ;)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 11, 2022, 03:50:56 pm
Wavelets: a mathematical microscope
Artem Kirsanov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxqHcObNK4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxqHcObNK4)

Great visualizations!  :-+

or, for less video and more text, "The Wavelet Tutorial" by Robi Polikar:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/msg3554257/#msg3554257 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/fun-for-nerds/msg3554257/#msg3554257)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 19, 2022, 07:58:50 pm
100 Unsolved Mysteries That Cannot Be Explained | Compilation
Unexplained Mysteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM0O9ASGbxU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM0O9ASGbxU)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on September 20, 2022, 02:37:22 am
Aliens.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: xrunner on September 20, 2022, 02:57:52 am
Aliens.

… that need runways.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 20, 2022, 08:37:23 am
runways or runaways  :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 21, 2022, 07:52:04 pm
3D rendering of a wave guide
Nils Berglund

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl2RJCub0Iw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl2RJCub0Iw)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 22, 2022, 08:54:16 pm
This time with the wave reflected back.  First half of the video shows the wave amplitude, second half the energy.

A W-shaped wave guide
Nils Berglund

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavj84JWjOA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavj84JWjOA)

Physicist Dad Jokes:  Have you noticed the cat in the video?  ;D
(sɔᴉʇbo ɹǝqᴉɟ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ punoɹɐ lǝʌɐɹʇ sʇɐɔ ʍoɥ sᴉ sᴉɥꞱ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: indeterminatus on September 22, 2022, 09:34:58 pm
runways or runaways  :o

Yes.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 29, 2022, 04:23:58 am
Voyage through Time - a Generative AI journey
Neural Synesthesia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3VZCjDhGI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3VZCjDhGI)

 ^-^

...

Quote
This video was made with StableDiffusion ( https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion (https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion) ), combining 36 prompts in a single, seamless video morph taking you on a trip through evolution.
:scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on September 29, 2022, 10:40:57 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518-lOf6M_s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518-lOf6M_s)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on October 02, 2022, 06:15:42 am
Math videos:

No particular video to link here, but an introduction of some very, very good ones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDofhN-RJqg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDofhN-RJqg)

Topics range from arithmetic (especially in less usual number systems: group theory, abstract algebra, etc.) to calculus and more!

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 02, 2022, 11:11:34 pm
Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Nominal Animal on October 07, 2022, 08:25:40 pm
Whether array indexing should start at 0 or at 1 comes up every now and then.  Especially when programming language proponents argue.  (It was once a hot topic between Fortran and C proponents, for example.)

I'm firmly in the zero camp... except when it comes to binary search trees stored in an array, then I insist on indexing starting at 1.  The reason is this:
(https://www.nominal-animal.net/answers/binary-tree-indexing.svg)
Upper, red numbers indicate the index to the node, if the tree were to use array representation.  They increment from top to bottom (and on each row, from left to right).

The lower, blue numbers indicate the value in the node, or equivalently the sort order of the node.  They increment strictly from left to right, this being a binary search tree.

The green numbers indicate path from the root node, with 0 left and 1 right, each descent adding a new binary digit to the right.

If you prepend a binary 1 to each binary path (in green) from root to a node, you get the binary representation of the target node index (in red).  Including to the root node itself, 1.

If you have N levels, and therefore \$2^N-1\$ nodes, and use \$i\$ for the (red) node index, and \$k\$ for the (blue) node sort orders, \$1 \le i, k \le 2^N - 1\$, then
$$\begin{aligned}
k(i, N) &= \left( i - 2^{\lfloor \log_2 i \rfloor} \right) 2^{N - \lfloor \log_2 i \rfloor} + 2^{N - \lfloor \log_2 i \rfloor - 1} \\
i(k, N) &= \frac{G\left(k + 2^N\right) - 1}{2} \\
\end{aligned}$$
where \$G(x)\$ is the largest odd multiplier of \$x\$, i.e.
$$G(x) = \left\lbrace \begin{matrix}
x, & \text{if } x \text{ is odd} \\
G(x/2), & \text{if } x \text{ is even} \\
\end{matrix} \right.$$
Furthermore, the index (red) for the bottom-rightmost node is \$2^N-1\$, and the index of the leftmost node on level \$n\$, \$1 \le n \le N\$, is \$2^{n-1}\$, with the node index incrementing by \$2^n\$ to the next node on the right on that same level, and the index of the rightmost node is \$2^n-1\$.

(The above formulae tell you, for example, how to convert a sorted array (of \$2^N-1\$ elements) to a perfect binary search tree, and vice versa, using direct assignments in a single pass over the source array.)

You can find a lot more very easy mappings, but really, only when the indexing starts at 1.  If you start the indexing at 0, one would think it just adds some \$+1\$ and \$-1\$ above (which is true), but it is much harder to derive the formulae, then.  (I know, because I derived all these myself from scratch in 2016.  I'm sure someone else discovered all these before me, I don't claim to be the discoverer; I'm just saying that switching to one-based indexing was the trick that helped me discover these.)

For those interested in the integer sequences involved, \$G(x)\$ is OEIS A000265 (https://oeis.org/A000265), \$k(i,N)\$ is a variant of OEIS A131987 (https://oeis.org/A131987), and \$i(k,N)\$ is a variant of OEIS A101279 (https://oeis.org/A101279).
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on October 14, 2022, 05:15:01 am
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Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 20, 2022, 08:15:17 pm
Stable Diffusion in Code (AI Image Generation) - Computerphile
Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lz30by8-sU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lz30by8-sU)

 8)

(Might need to watch this previous video, too, How AI Image Generators Work (Stable Diffusion / Dall-E) - Computerphile (https://youtu.be/1CIpzeNxIhU) to make more sense about what he's doing.)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: timenutgoblin on October 25, 2022, 01:04:47 pm
:scared:

\$\ \sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2} \$

\$\ \sqrt{2}=2^\frac{1}{2} \$

\$\ \frac{1}{2}=2^{-1} \$

\$\ -1 = -(2^0) \$

\$\ 2^{2^{-(2^0)}} \$

\$\ (2^{2^{-(2^0)}})^{({2^{2^{-(2^0)}}})} \$

\$\ 2^{(2^{-(2^0)}) \times (-(2^0))} = 2^\frac{-1}{2} \$

\$\ \sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2} = 2^{2^\frac{-1}{2}} \$
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: timenutgoblin on October 26, 2022, 01:10:01 pm
For those wondering about my algebra post, it's from BriTheMathGuy on YouTube.

Here's the link:

"This Will Be Your Favorite Simple Problem" (https://youtu.be/4lvk7lYQ1RQ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on October 29, 2022, 12:32:39 am
Something you never expected to see on the official Raspberry Pi web site:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/polefx-livens-up-acrobatic-dance-with-raspberry-pi-magpi-123/ (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/polefx-livens-up-acrobatic-dance-with-raspberry-pi-magpi-123/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 29, 2022, 05:37:32 pm
World's Largest Swiss Army Knife ! 64 Functions
The Maker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yChzA3Ayvus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yChzA3Ayvus)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 31, 2022, 07:38:18 pm
Halloween Tryouts
Buttered Side Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOirLSrm9J8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOirLSrm9J8)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on November 02, 2022, 02:01:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d19P7vSr1P8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d19P7vSr1P8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on November 04, 2022, 06:23:40 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE)

Don't let the thumbnail fool you...(or it won't, if you know). It's a quirky hook into the subject of convolution, Fourier and so on.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 06, 2022, 07:33:19 pm
The Electromagnetic field, how Electric and Magnetic forces arise
ScienceClic English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoVW7CRR5JY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoVW7CRR5JY)

 :-DMM



Electric Circuit Components
Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggC58hQCX38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggC58hQCX38)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 06, 2022, 08:13:11 pm
The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgFG7PUHfo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgFG7PUHfo)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 10, 2022, 07:20:04 am
When Green is Red—Making Plants Bleed
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tK8q7wAmy0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tK8q7wAmy0)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: timenutgoblin on November 15, 2022, 12:00:00 pm
Looking Glass Universe - I did the double slit experiment at home

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_uBaBuarEM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 18, 2022, 04:50:05 pm
But what is a convolution?
3Blue1Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuXjwB4LzSA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuXjwB4LzSA)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 21, 2022, 03:23:23 pm
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): Most Ingenious Algorithm Ever?
Reducible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7apO7q16V0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7apO7q16V0)

 :o   8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 15, 2022, 07:22:20 am
The Turntable Paradox
Steve Mould

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oM7hX3UUEU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oM7hX3UUEU)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 15, 2022, 06:02:29 pm
Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity
Steve Mould

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkiJZKJfpY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkiJZKJfpY)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 21, 2022, 11:13:27 am
Amazing Shade Illusion!
brusspup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFffta35MY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFffta35MY)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: timenutgoblin on December 25, 2022, 01:05:07 pm
TNP #26 - Magic of Mechanical Timekeeping & Measuring the Accuracy of a Raymond-Weil Skeleton Watch
The Signal Path

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhWEKGwG2s



What If Swings Had Springs Instead Of Ropes: Autoparametric Resonance
Steve Mould

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJmKl7QfDU

At 9:15 and 11:05 he talks about coupled pendulums.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Coupled_oscillators.gif)


Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillation#Coupled_oscillations
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 26, 2022, 07:34:36 am
This fake dog nose made chemical sensors 18x better
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TILjzuBGkRc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TILjzuBGkRc)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 29, 2022, 09:15:40 am
I Asked An Actual Apollo Engineer to Explain the Saturn 5 Rocket - Smarter Every Day 280

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nLHIM2IPRY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nLHIM2IPRY)

 8)



Later added:
I Asked An Actual Apollo Engineer to Explain the Saturn 5 Rocket (Long Cut) - Smarter Every Day 2 (https://youtu.be/cUkbdqw9pBk)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Ed.Kloonk on December 29, 2022, 09:27:58 am


 8)

And looking even further out..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkGRVvA23qI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkGRVvA23qI)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 31, 2022, 06:11:47 am
 Ferrofluid Could Be The Future of Space Propulsion
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbpEo5b1lI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbpEo5b1lI)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on December 31, 2022, 06:16:21 pm
Made by the spider from the EEVblog lab?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Infraviolet on December 31, 2022, 07:44:05 pm
I think the spider wants to listen to radio, its a PCB antenna without the PCB, what wavelength does it look to be tuned for?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: MegaVolt on January 03, 2023, 10:06:45 am
Made by the spider from the EEVblog lab?
If I'm not mistaken, the spider was drugged.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on January 04, 2023, 09:03:21 am
Time for some 4D hyperbolic spacetime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln69789fGoQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln69789fGoQ)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 05, 2023, 07:10:27 am
SMD and PCB Holder
By olikraus

(https://content.instructables.com/FLP/09K8/LCETAPLT/FLP09K8LCETAPLT.jpg?auto=webp&frame=1&width=1024&height=1024&fit=bounds&md=834494e7c92c454a951ddd7992948ff8)
A PCB holder made from wood.  Magnetical PCB clamps and SMD part fixing clamp.
Source:  https://www.instructables.com/SMD-and-PCB-Holder/ (https://www.instructables.com/SMD-and-PCB-Holder/)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 09, 2023, 07:30:24 am
Quote from: Ancient Earth Globe at https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth
750 million years ago
Cryogenian Period. Glaciers may have covered the entire planet during the greatest ice age known on Earth. New types of life such as red and green algae appear during this period.

600 million years ago
Ediacaran Period. Life is evolving in the sea, and multicellular life is just beginning to emerge. The Pannotia supercontinent is a major landmass.

540 million years ago
Early Cambrian. A mass extinction has just taken place. Afterwards, the fossil record shows a dramatic expansion of animal life in the sea, known as the "Cambrian explosion." Animals are beginning to evolve shells and exoskeletons.

500 million years ago
Late Cambrian. The ocean is teeming with life following a dramatic expansion of animal diversity in the sea, known as the "Cambrian explosion." The forms of some animals show ancestry to modern animals. Jawless fish, the first vertebrates, appear.

470 million years ago
Ordovician Period. The seas are diverse and the first coral reefs emerge. Algae is the only multicellular plant, and there is still no complex life on land.

450 million years ago
Late Ordovician. The seas are diverse and the first coral reefs have emerged. Algae is the only multicellular plant, and there is still no complex life on land. A mass extinction is about to take place.

430 million years ago
Silurian Period. A mass extinction took place, wiping out nearly half of marine invertebrate species. The first land plants emerge, starting at the edge of the ocean. Plants evolve vascularity, the ability to transport water and nutrients through their tissues. Ocean life becomes larger and more complex, and some creatures venture out of reefs and onto land.

400 million years ago
Devonian Period. Life on land becomes more complex as plants develop. Insects diversify and fish develop sturdy fins, which eventually evolve into limbs. The first vertebrates walk on land. Oceans and coral reefs host a diverse range of fish, sharks, sea scorpions, and cephalopods.

370 million years ago
Late Devonian. Life on land becomes more complex as plants develop. Insects diversify and fish develop sturdy fins, which eventually evolve into limbs. The first vertebrates walk on land. Oceans and coral reefs host a diverse range of fish, sharks, sea scorpions, and cephalopods. A mass extinction is about to take place that will stress marine life.

340 million years ago
Carboniferous Period. A mass extinction harmed marine life, but land organisms adapted. Plants are developing root systems that allowed them to grow larger and move inland. Environments are evolving below tree canopies. Atmospheric oxygen increases as plants spread on land. Early reptiles are evolving.

300 million years ago
Late Carboniferous. Plants developed root systems that allowed them to grow larger and move inland. Environments evolved below tree canopies. Atmospheric oxygen increased as plants spread on land. Early reptiles have evolved, and giant insects diversify.

280 million years ago
Permian Period. Landmasses merged and formed the supercontinent Pangea. Extreme conditions such as polar ice caps and deserts limited the extent of plant life, but amphibious tetrapods and reptiles diversified where plants grew. Oceans teemed with fish and invertebrate life.

260 million years ago
Late Permian. The greatest mass extinction in history is about to take place, driving 90% of species extinct. The extinction of plants reduced food supply for large herbivorous reptiles, and removed habitat for insects.

240 million years ago
Early Triassic. Oxygen levels are significantly lower due to the extinction of many land plants. Many corals went extinct, with reefs taking millions of years to re-form. Small ancestors to birds, mammals, and dinosaurs survive on the Pangaea supercontinent.

220 million years ago
Middle Triassic. The Earth is recovering from the Permian-Triassic extinction. Small dinosaurs begin to appear. Therapsids and archosaurs emerge, along with the first flying vertebrates.

200 million years ago
Late Triassic. An extinction event is about to happen, resulting in the disappearance of 76% of all terrestrial and marine life species and greatly reducing surviving populations. Some families, such as pterosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, and fish were minimally affected. The first true dinosaurs emerge.

170 million years ago
Jurassic Period. Dinosaurs thrived as the first mammals and birds evolved. Ocean life diversified and the Earth was very warm.

150 million years ago
Late Jurassic. The earliest lizards have appeared and primitive placental mammals have evolved. Dinosaurs dominate both landmasses. Large marine reptiles inhabited the ocean, and pterosaurs were the dominant flying vertebrates.

120 million years ago
Early Cretaceous. The world is warm and has no polar ice caps. Large reptiles dominate and mammals remained small. Flowering plants evolve and spread throughout the world.

105 million years ago
Cretaceous Period. Ceratopsian and pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs evolve. Modern mammal, bird, and insect groups emerge.

90 million years ago
Cretaceous Period. Ceratopsian and pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs evolve. Modern mammal, bird, and insect groups emerge.

66 million years ago
Late Cretaceous. A mass extinction occurs, leading to the extinction of dinosaurs, many marine reptiles, all flying reptiles, and many marine invertebrates and other species. Scientists believe the extinction was caused by an asteroid impact on the present-day Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

50 million years ago
Early Tertiary. Following the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, surviving birds, mammals, and reptiles diversified. Early whales evolved from land mammals.

35 million years ago
Mid Tertiary. Mammals have evolved from small, simple forms to a diverse group. Primates, cetaceans, and other groups evolve. The Earth cools and deciduous plants become more common.

20 million years ago
Neocene Period. Mammals and birds continue to evolve into modern forms. Early hominids emerge in Africa.

0 million years ago
You are here.  :)


Wanna see it?
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240
Click&drag to browse through space, left/right arrows to browse through time.  8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: daqq on January 09, 2023, 07:48:35 pm
Game of Life on steroids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YirERTVF0&ab_channel=TomMohr (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YirERTVF0&ab_channel=TomMohr)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 11, 2023, 09:35:53 pm
What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
Physics Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRP4AqZR3UU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRP4AqZR3UU)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 19, 2023, 09:03:58 am
Self-Soldering Circuits
Carl Bugeja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0csHZveVvY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0csHZveVvY)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on January 23, 2023, 06:20:00 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEMxqreA10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEMxqreA10)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 23, 2023, 08:52:10 am
Identify chemicals with radio frequencies - Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (MRI without magnets)
Applied Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_EHceV9sk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_EHceV9sk)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 30, 2023, 05:06:58 pm
How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
Journey to the Microcosmos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Lp6Fi5B2s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Lp6Fi5B2s)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 06, 2023, 10:44:57 am
This microscope uses touch
Steve Mould

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQ4rK66vlE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQ4rK66vlE)

 :D

https://people.csail.mit.edu/kimo/publications/microgeometry/microgeometry.pdf (https://people.csail.mit.edu/kimo/publications/microgeometry/microgeometry.pdf)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on February 13, 2023, 07:49:10 am
A small asteroid hits the channel between France and England:

https://twitter.com/timtrice/status/1624967004246495232 (https://twitter.com/timtrice/status/1624967004246495232)

Watch the video around timestamp=15s from the beginning.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 14, 2023, 05:07:40 pm
Earthworm Love is Cuddly ... and Complicated | Deep Look
Deep Look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjpo6OkuYy0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjpo6OkuYy0)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on February 21, 2023, 05:14:54 pm
Ever wanted to do a hologram? Here is a construction method for a DIY hologram technique:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv-38lwV6vc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv-38lwV6vc)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on February 24, 2023, 02:04:24 pm
Fusion reactor runs for more than 8 minutes in a row:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmje2qsVgY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmje2qsVgY)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on February 25, 2023, 01:50:43 pm
C compiler tries to disprove Fermat's Last Theorem:
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/140
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on February 27, 2023, 08:22:12 am
This explains the Riemann Hypothesis better than anything else I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfz2dThah_Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfz2dThah_Q)

May also be of interest, for complex analysis / calculus background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqC5uHjE4g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqC5uHjE4g)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: TomKatt on February 28, 2023, 12:59:06 pm
Reddit's Engineering Porn (https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/) and Mechanical GIFS (https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanical_gifs/) sites are great for quick browsing of interesting things... 

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: kashafjack on March 04, 2023, 01:19:58 pm
I am always exploring new activities in the online market in my free time by following Reddit communities.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 15, 2023, 07:02:07 am
What Does an Electron Look Like?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5ww6aYAZ8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5ww6aYAZ8)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 16, 2023, 05:23:28 am
ESA’s million-year time machine
Curious Droid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2QfsqcyNqI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2QfsqcyNqI)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 17, 2023, 07:49:07 am
#366: Back to Basics: Basics of the Bipolar Transistor - NPN and PNP
w2aew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrAUC4ZoNYY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrAUC4ZoNYY)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: DavidAlfa on March 17, 2023, 09:50:25 pm
Not joking, this failed capacitor on a friend's TV (Shorted) came signaled from factory :-DD
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 18, 2023, 05:46:49 am
The INSANE Precision of The National Institute of Standards and Technology
Machine Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyU97MoHFM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyU97MoHFM)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on March 18, 2023, 03:41:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUFM0XGTRg8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUFM0XGTRg8)
Anyone want to try to outdo it? I'm thinking it can easily be done with a bunch of high power green LEDs, but it would just end up a rather expensive toy.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 19, 2023, 04:57:09 am
Do Superconductors Attract Each Other?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnxlTz8nuaU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnxlTz8nuaU)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 20, 2023, 08:48:43 am
World's Strongest Magnet!
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0amdIcZt5I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0amdIcZt5I)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on March 21, 2023, 07:31:52 pm
The first episode of a total series of six episodes about The Great Seal Bug from the Machining and Microwaves channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyryQltyDwA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyryQltyDwA)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on March 23, 2023, 11:17:20 am
56 transition controls for a triple inverted pendulum  :o  :scared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GvwWKkBmg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GvwWKkBmg)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 31, 2023, 05:36:15 pm
What Does The Strong Nuclear Force Look Like?
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx4lNihOT4U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx4lNihOT4U)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on April 01, 2023, 03:37:22 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUbPuZQe-O0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUbPuZQe-O0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 03, 2023, 10:05:55 am
Galileo bad  :rant:
https://intellectualmathematics.com/opinionated-history-of-mathematics/

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 08, 2023, 08:42:36 am
SOLENOIDS & RELAYS - The Secret Life of Components, a series of guides for makers and designers - 15
tim hunkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdj_g_1tj4c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdj_g_1tj4c)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 09, 2023, 09:43:38 am
Make a PCB with 3D printer, UV led and photosensitive film
Wil Straver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7iFZknBrQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7iFZknBrQ)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 14, 2023, 07:29:47 am
The Stern-Gerlach Experiment (ESI 1967)
TSG Physics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcTqcyv-V1I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcTqcyv-V1I)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 19, 2023, 08:53:50 am
Imaginary Numbers Are Real
Welch Labs

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiaHhY2iBX9g6KIvZ_703G3KJXapKkNaF (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiaHhY2iBX9g6KIvZ_703G3KJXapKkNaF)
 :-+

"That this subject [imaginary numbers] has hitherto been surrounded by mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill adapted notation.  If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question." - Gauss
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on April 20, 2023, 03:30:09 pm
Weird...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/piezoelectric-liquid
Wonder what kinds of useful things could come of it?  Doesn't make much sense to me offhand.  To be clear, I'm more than satisfied with understanding it as a research curiosity if nothing else.

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 20, 2023, 03:55:24 pm
Weird...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/piezoelectric-liquid
Wonder what kinds of useful things could come of it?  Doesn't make much sense to me offhand.  To be clear, I'm more than satisfied with understanding it as a research curiosity if nothing else.

Tim

From the i3e link:
Quote
Conversely, an electric charge applied to these materials distorts their structures.

I know water, too, can be shaped with high voltage (electrowetting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrowetting)).  Makes me wonder if water can be piezoelectric, too.   ???

If so, might explain why a hit in the head can knock out one unconscious:  it's the electric shock generated by the piezo-water inside the brain.  ;D

There was someone making electrically-controlled focus-tunable lenses, where the focal distance of a single lens was controlled by a voltage, no motors, based on electrowetting.  Thought his electro-lenses were oil based IIRC, a French guy some 10 years ago or so.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on April 20, 2023, 07:01:54 pm
I know water, too, can be shaped with high voltage (electrowetting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrowetting)).  Makes me wonder if water can be piezoelectric, too.   ???

If so, might explain why a hit in the head can knock out one unconscious:  it's the electric shock generated by the piezo-water inside the brain.  ;D

There was someone making electrically-controlled focus-tunable lenses, where the focal distance of a single lens was controlled by a voltage, no motors, based on electrowetting.  Thought his electro-lenses were oil based IIRC, a French guy some 10 years ago or so.

But that's a surface effect -- not bulk.  Field strength modifying surface tension at the boundary makes sense.  (Most dramatic example: alkali metals apparently explode with a transitional hedgehog state, massively increasing the surface area in an instant!)  Or even more mundane: force deflecting an elastic diaphragm; a condenser mic (or the inverse).

Bulk doesn't make much sense, because both the force and the charge can just redistribute.  Or it ain't a liquid!

I suspect they've got some kind of gel phase, or something rheology, or maybe liquid crystal something, going on, so it's sorta liquid but not; or it's a dynamic effect, and only works on time scales above the dipole relaxation rate (which happens to be unusually low in the material, at the temperature tested).  But the article doesn't really say anything about that...

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Nominal Animal on April 20, 2023, 07:36:14 pm
Makes me wonder if water can be piezoelectric, too.
Snowflakes are triboelectric.

If so, might explain why a hit in the head can knock out one unconscious:  it's the electric shock generated by the piezo-water inside the brain.  ;D
No, it's typically the brain hitting the skull knocking neurons off-kilter, with unconsciousness resulting from the brain shutting down unnecessary operation to protect itself.

Besides, while cerebrospinal fluid is 99% water, it has a lot of other stuff too.  Its properties differ quite a bit from water.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 20, 2023, 08:40:42 pm
Indeed, we are more like walking bags of seawater.  ;D
Stepped out of the oceans once, wondering on land since.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on April 20, 2023, 10:19:08 pm
No, it's typically the brain hitting the skull knocking neurons off-kilter, with unconsciousness resulting from the brain shutting down unnecessary operation to protect itself.

Besides, while cerebrospinal fluid is 99% water, it has a lot of other stuff too.  Its properties differ quite a bit from water.
Handegg (incorrectly called "football" in the US) is under criticism for causing brain damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzbxrnm7jXc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzbxrnm7jXc)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Nominal Animal on April 21, 2023, 10:46:01 am
No, it's typically the brain hitting the skull knocking neurons off-kilter, with unconsciousness resulting from the brain shutting down unnecessary operation to protect itself.

Besides, while cerebrospinal fluid is 99% water, it has a lot of other stuff too.  Its properties differ quite a bit from water.
Handegg (incorrectly called "football" in the US) is under criticism for causing brain damage.
The density of the cerebrospinal fluid is such that the brain is very close to neutrally buoyant, i.e. "weightless" within our skulls.  It really cannot support even its own weight without the fluid; and overpressure is similarly deadly.  Trepanation is one of the oldest surgeries known from prehistoric findings, and skulls that show significant healing (years, even decades) after trepanation are not rare.  There is sufficient evidence and historical record to show that this was not a religious practice, but a therapeutic one, applied to specific types of head wounds.

There are brain specialists who believe boxing with gloves is more dangerous to humans than barehanded boxing, because the gloves let humans hit much harder than they can barehanded.  It would be interesting to compare handegg and rugby statistics, as the difference is somewhat similar.

Falling on your face or back on sand or grass is unlikely to do much damage (unless you twist your limb or fall on top of something), but falling on concrete or asphalt and hitting your head can easily kill you.  The exact acceleration profile matters; it is not a total energy or momentum transfer thing.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 21, 2023, 11:18:50 am
Have had a former rugby player as a coworker at some point.  He told us it's even tougher than it seems.

The impact from falling is not the worst, from what told us once at a beer.  During a fall, there still is plenty of time to react.  The worst are those actions you don't have time to react.  For example, he was telling how an action as simple as grabbing one's arm while running from opposite directions can have a tremendous impact.  The initiator knows what action will perform next and prepares for it, while the other dude don't.  The effect is that there is no time to react, the body turns from the momentum of grabbing, then suddenly stops.  My understanding was that the effect of such a grab would be similar with that seen in the tip of a whip.  He said he would prefer a hit in the face in a fist fight, rather than that shock that propagates through the entire body during an unforeseen grab at rugby.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 29, 2023, 09:55:08 am
The Wooden Transistor  :wtf:

(https://www.pnas.org/cms/10.1073/pnas.2218380120/asset/36581df7-47db-4b11-abc2-07d4d2380a44/assets/images/large/pnas.2218380120fig03.jpg)
Source:  Electrical current modulation in wood electrochemical transistor
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218380120 (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218380120)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 07, 2023, 12:21:46 am
How Many Legs Are Best?
Curious Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBmtMACELus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBmtMACELus)

 :P
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 07, 2023, 02:17:22 pm
Hilariously Inaccurate Medieval Art of Animals
Curious Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2Uj7gWSE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2Uj7gWSE)

 :palm:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 10, 2023, 06:48:16 pm
Encyclopedia Of A World That Doesn’t Exist | Codex Seraphinianus
Curious Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1FXQMmXYoA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1FXQMmXYoA)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 11, 2023, 12:37:46 pm
The Steam Turbine: The Surprising Relationship of Engineering & Science
engineerguy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8lXXg8dWHk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8lXXg8dWHk)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 12, 2023, 08:25:20 am
Smith Chart
TheSiGuy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J758TBuQGP8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J758TBuQGP8)

Every video from this channel is a masterpiece in visualization.  :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 12, 2023, 08:32:56 am
Bjt Transconductance and small signal model explained visually
TheSiGuy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb1GYdNmj0k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb1GYdNmj0k)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 13, 2023, 02:25:37 pm
Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Idea Ever
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU_YFpfDqqA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU_YFpfDqqA)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 14, 2023, 08:12:44 am
Euler's Formula Beyond Complex Numbers
Morphocular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gOYtQYRXo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gOYtQYRXo)

 :scared:    <---   yes, rotations  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 17, 2023, 10:32:57 am
How Kodak Punches 384000 HOLES A MINUTE in Film Stock (Kodak Factory Tour Part 3 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 286
SmarterEveryDay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrJP82ZZiag (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrJP82ZZiag)

 ^-^

The other two parts of the factory tour:
How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271  (https://youtu.be/HQKy1KJpSVc)
How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 2 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 275 (https://youtu.be/cAAJUHwh9F4)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 18, 2023, 08:47:23 am
What is the Riemann Hypothesis REALLY about?
HexagonVideos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kOh7qlsM4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kOh7qlsM4)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 24, 2023, 07:06:16 pm
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on May 28, 2023, 08:47:06 am
Radio Antenna Fundamentals Part 1 1947
Gerry Trenwith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHSPRcRgmOw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHSPRcRgmOw)

 :-+

Radio Antenna Fundamentals - Part 2 1947 (https://youtu.be/EtEBxY8TvuE)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 07, 2023, 05:54:31 am
The Largest Civilization in The World
ReYOUniverse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rERHPiYxc64 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rERHPiYxc64)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 08, 2023, 05:58:33 am
A Tesla coil with only three components!
William Fraser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsG_dBZyCM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsG_dBZyCM)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Infraviolet on June 08, 2023, 02:34:29 pm
Does that count as a Tesla coil? It doesn't seem to be generating any arcs.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 10, 2023, 01:07:44 pm
Yea, doesn't shoot sparks, maybe in the dark, with a very thin sharpen end loose wire, IDK.  :-\
Still cool that it needs an "EMP" to crank-start it, though.  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 10, 2023, 01:08:57 pm
This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NII1RdlcQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NII1RdlcQ)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 13, 2023, 06:21:42 pm
Here's a Question! - Why Does the Water Rise?
Jefferson Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpdnFlU6KqQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpdnFlU6KqQ)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 18, 2023, 03:39:01 pm
How a Lithium Ion Battery Actually Works // Photorealistic // 16 Month Project
The Limiting Factor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-1psMHSpKs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-1psMHSpKs)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: quadtech on June 20, 2023, 06:00:21 am
An interesting video on the guy who deciphered the Linear B - it is a bit shallow on the details, but there are other videos which dwell on that.

https://youtu.be/9Fn9wVPAYAo
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 20, 2023, 12:26:07 pm
Series circuit - 6 LEDs - how does it work?
Henryk Gasperowicz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7DzTIFJdU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7DzTIFJdU)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 22, 2023, 09:14:13 am
1941 A DIY Fresnel Lens From Tube
Robert Murray-Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMxPDa7Hc4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMxPDa7Hc4)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 23, 2023, 08:01:19 am
Desoldering Made Easy - Amazing Trick || Soldering Tutorial
Mr SolderFix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vou2xlJkuoU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vou2xlJkuoU)

 :-+

similar approach (bridge all with copper wire and flood with solder before desoldering):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObbANkrmUM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObbANkrmUM)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on June 24, 2023, 09:14:07 am
Make A Simple Solder Pot From A Soldering Iron 🤔 AMAZING !
Mr SolderFix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzN2iYXzLlM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzN2iYXzLlM)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 02, 2023, 06:59:13 pm
60GHz mmWave Simulation with openEMS & Blender - Radiation Pattern
Sam A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOR2y7VvlSk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOR2y7VvlSk)

 :o

As seen in https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/electromagnetic-simulations-renders-with-openems-blender/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/electromagnetic-simulations-renders-with-openems-blender/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 03, 2023, 05:44:40 am
Magical Moors - A Mysterious World Full of Life | Free Documentary Nature
Free Documentary - Nature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxYT7QMT_pA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxYT7QMT_pA)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 04, 2023, 07:21:09 am
Making Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)
NightHawkInLight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 08, 2023, 06:24:14 am
A Round Disk Through a Smaller Square Hole (Bending Spacetime)
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jE-ATI8utA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jE-ATI8utA)

Not spacetime bending but still funny, classic trick of taking advantage of another dimension.  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 10, 2023, 03:24:23 pm
Understanding Oscilloscopes – XY Mode
Rohde Schwarz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnJAkd0OBg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnJAkd0OBg)

Didn't thought about measuring the AM modulation factor like that.  ;D

Understanding Oscilloscopes – Lissajous Patterns
Rohde Schwarz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3qvsSAwmu4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3qvsSAwmu4)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 18, 2023, 03:45:50 am
Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
Journey to the Microcosmos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9K7Awzogg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9K7Awzogg)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 19, 2023, 03:11:38 pm
How To Make The Strongest Laser Light
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7VTVkhrPU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7VTVkhrPU)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: jeffjmr on July 20, 2023, 03:34:49 am
Series circuit - 6 LEDs - how does it work?
Henryk Gasperowicz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7DzTIFJdU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7DzTIFJdU)

 ;D

Can someone explain how this works, or is it a magic trick (illusion)?
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 20, 2023, 05:40:24 am
The video is not faked by special effects.  The trick is that inside the connector for the 9V battery, there is a small oscillator, and inside the LEDs and switches there are tiny tuned circuits not visible.  The battery connector, the LEDs and/or the switches were modified in advance.  Sometimes a simple diode instead of a tuned LC is enough.

There are a few other videos titled "Sollution" on his YouTube channel, where the entire schematic is shown, including the tiny SMD parts hidden inside batt connector and inside LEDs/switches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDTZuFJYX4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDTZuFJYX4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-0lSY5jnU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-0lSY5jnU)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 21, 2023, 01:03:01 pm
TSP #230 - A Real-Life Tricorder! Agilent Raman Resolve Through-Barrier Chemical Analyzer
The Signal Path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89_HY1oV_J0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89_HY1oV_J0)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 26, 2023, 07:29:24 am
Uniform Plane Waves: A 3D Journey to the Simplest Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
TheSiGuy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUBXiTkrmSo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUBXiTkrmSo)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on July 29, 2023, 07:05:11 am
Has JWST shown the Universe is TWICE as old as we think?!
Dr. Becky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYgck1zAgQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYgck1zAgQ)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 02, 2023, 06:00:16 pm
The Microspheres Hiding in your Phone's Screen
Breaking Taps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HZ35CyHVxQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HZ35CyHVxQ)

 :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 05, 2023, 06:57:14 am
The 4 Maxwell Equations. Get the Deepest Intuition!
Universaldenker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJD8ywGrXks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJD8ywGrXks)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on August 10, 2023, 11:14:29 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9SghCClskI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9SghCClskI)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 11, 2023, 04:21:28 pm
The Most Reflective Mirror In The World
The Action Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_lXKmWYDI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_lXKmWYDI)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on August 12, 2023, 03:31:57 am
I guess the original Tesla was not truly responsible for high voltage AC transmission and transformers.
His name was only mainly pushed by Westinghouse as the all-in-one AC power god he was credited for which later in life he himself began to believe when interviewed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4XVlWqXUTU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4XVlWqXUTU)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 12, 2023, 06:33:28 am
He, he, attribution tales are many:
    - Intel's i4004 was not the first microprocessor (https://firstmicroprocessor.com/documents/)
    - Wheatstone Bridge was not Wheatstone's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_bridge)
    - E = mc2 was published in physics journals 2 years before being attributed to Einstein (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/was-einstein-the-first-to-invent-e-mc2/)
    - Henry Coanda instead of Hans von Ohain for the first jet engine (https://historyofyesterday.com/henri-coanda-the-real-inventor-of-the-jet-engine/)
    - Galileo was not how we think he was (https://intellectualmathematics.com/opinionated-history-of-mathematics/)
etc.

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BU508A on August 13, 2023, 05:54:54 pm
From The Institute of Art and Ideas:
"Can we understand the universe? | Sheldrake & Hossenfelder go head to head on dark matter IN FULL"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8JGlX5eU8g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8JGlX5eU8g)

Keep an eye on Sabine's bullshit-o-meter.  :-DD
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 13, 2023, 07:17:35 pm
Tools, Glorious Tools! #11 - The Vacuum Casting Machine
Clickspring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSLf3MktrvY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSLf3MktrvY)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 19, 2023, 04:16:35 pm
What ARE electronic orbitals?
Three Twentysix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23bNW4G9DZk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23bNW4G9DZk)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on August 24, 2023, 05:05:42 pm
This Daring Fly Swims in a Shimmering Bubble Shield | Deep Look
Deep Look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88hBWlxuMQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88hBWlxuMQ)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on August 25, 2023, 09:16:04 pm
GET READY!!!
A 555 Chip Walking To Stayin' Alive Synced to Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDhNQPt8An0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDhNQPt8An0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Roehrenonkel on August 26, 2023, 08:03:22 am
Hi BrianHG,
 
thank you for the video. What a long bread-board.....
Can it do the moon-walk too?
Btw its walking backwards. ;-)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on August 26, 2023, 08:14:53 am
Btw its walking backwards. ;-)
:-DD
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: luudee on August 26, 2023, 10:37:13 am

I think Dave will appreciate this most ...


In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and
requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent
of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen
weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American
system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon
of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.


Cheers,
luudee

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 01, 2023, 06:54:23 am
The Golf Ball Paradox
Steve Mould

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sbM2Isx17A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sbM2Isx17A)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on September 01, 2023, 02:23:12 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCX62YJCmGk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCX62YJCmGk)

New 3b1b, and it's physics related no less!

Even more, 2nd part is already out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXRTczANuIs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXRTczANuIs)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on September 05, 2023, 10:24:35 pm
Terribly Outdated Technology that we Still Use...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WOLKaURlCk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WOLKaURlCk)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on September 05, 2023, 11:05:11 pm
AI generated commercials / ads.  (Give it a few more years and the backgrounds & bodies will be full motion and the voices will be better)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrW4I6hcvhw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrW4I6hcvhw)

Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 10, 2023, 05:09:49 am
Jonathan Livingston Seagull By Richard Bach
Global Well-Being

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozcsD_3D8Ag (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozcsD_3D8Ag)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on September 11, 2023, 03:50:08 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sI-2bT8eU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sI-2bT8eU)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 16, 2023, 06:44:17 am
Games that Break all the Rules
Curious Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKo8FrWJww (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKo8FrWJww)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on September 16, 2023, 11:37:39 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXu8Ju_fdY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXu8Ju_fdY)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 24, 2023, 07:36:53 am
Ball course , Cup and Ball
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbgvr5GktMA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbgvr5GktMA)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 27, 2023, 06:44:26 am
How GPS Works, And How It Got Better Than The Designers Ever Imagined
Scott Manley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7ZAUjsycY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7ZAUjsycY)

 :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on September 27, 2023, 07:27:15 pm
For Super Nerds: The Locations of Star Trek and Other Sci-fi in Real Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tso5pSzBRDo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tso5pSzBRDo)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on September 29, 2023, 08:03:17 am
The Profound Meaning of Plato's Allegory of the Cave
After Skool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nHj3gL_JN0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nHj3gL_JN0)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 01, 2023, 12:11:49 pm
TESLA KNEW The Secret of the Great Pyramid: Unlimited Energy to Power the World
The Why Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU49FSIx0_g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU49FSIx0_g)

 :popcorn:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 02, 2023, 08:56:39 am
Solar storms: more dangerous than you think. Can we survive another Carrington Event?
The Why Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftrbdFGTQO4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftrbdFGTQO4)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 06, 2023, 06:40:08 pm
Halloween month, shoddy-spooky posts and popular at parties allowed!  :D

The Moon Revealed: It's a Hollow Spaceship, so who built it and why?
The Why Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXhTcko-lg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXhTcko-lg)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 09, 2023, 05:55:02 am
Leslie's Cube
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVu9T74KhVA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVu9T74KhVA)

 :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 09, 2023, 10:31:59 am
Ferenc Krausz - Attosecond Physics (VIDEO PORTRAIT)
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIUJb85BAQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIUJb85BAQ)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 09, 2023, 11:10:34 am
A Brief Journey into Attosecond Physics
Tom Douglas-Walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvb6vysV5Pg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvb6vysV5Pg)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 09, 2023, 06:41:35 pm
Attosecond Lasers (2023 Nobel Prize in Physics) - Sixty Symbols
Sixty Symbols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmSjGbnEWk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmSjGbnEWk)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 10, 2023, 09:42:36 am
These TOP 50 HOT tricks will blow your mind!
Mr. Hacker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJdJHjaaeLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJdJHjaaeLE)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 14, 2023, 04:03:20 pm
How an ingenious 400 year old drawing predicted the future
Machine Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnpSHo6iip4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnpSHo6iip4)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: themadhippy on October 14, 2023, 09:19:58 pm
As a yoof pinball, was were most of my arcade spending  went,always realised it was done by the magic of relays but never considered how complex it actually was.Makes some of the industrial control panels ive worked on look like kids play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 15, 2023, 06:32:28 am
Astronomy - Go Woke, Go Broke?
Unzicker's Real Physics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZ_Z0ZnefQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZ_Z0ZnefQ)

 :-/O
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 16, 2023, 07:25:23 am
Point discharge experiment
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAlYcQxLJ0I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAlYcQxLJ0I)

 :o

I was expecting the spark at the negative needle.  :-\
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Andy Chee on October 20, 2023, 02:22:23 am
IMO, not a computer chip....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnAQQEHtoW0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnAQQEHtoW0)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 22, 2023, 11:00:25 pm
Hydraulic microphone
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXAg1SHdPxE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXAg1SHdPxE)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 24, 2023, 06:25:15 am
Maxwell's equations are intuitive! (Ep: 1 - Power of Gauss's Law)
FloatHeadPhysics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQslMfp3Xkw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQslMfp3Xkw)

Best explanation in the entire Internet!  ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 25, 2023, 06:28:56 am
Inside a Quantum Computer! with Andrea Morello (Part 1 of 2)
EEVdiscover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QeSOIDiEM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QeSOIDiEM)

 :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on October 27, 2023, 06:43:22 am
I made my own Capacitor at CHEMI-CON!
DENKI OTAKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQu__pO9bZ0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQu__pO9bZ0)


Electrolytic Capacitors: Comprehensive Overview, Teardown, and Experiments
DENKI OTAKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAP-VA1m-A4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAP-VA1m-A4)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 01, 2023, 03:51:43 pm
Etch Anything, Even Diamond
Breaking Taps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyUCWq-wCDI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyUCWq-wCDI)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 03, 2023, 07:02:14 am
Amazing walnut speaker - DIY Bluetooth speaker by walnut
Penguin DIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-igWXH8ZDk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-igWXH8ZDk)

 :D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 11, 2023, 06:44:06 am
Maxwell's equation explained logically! (Ep 2: Faraday's law powers the world)
FloatHeadPhysics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_zNV7zCnU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_zNV7zCnU)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: MegaVolt on November 14, 2023, 08:49:12 am
Shooting pasta :)

https://youtu.be/RwtXVW0IWEk
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on November 29, 2023, 10:48:52 am
Test & Measurement Fundamentals
Rohde Schwarz

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKxVoO5jUTlvsVtDcqrVn0ybqBVlLj2z8 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKxVoO5jUTlvsVtDcqrVn0ybqBVlLj2z8)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 01, 2023, 11:47:09 am
And the award for the best 'nerd-video of the year' goes to...

Project Looking Glass | The Time Warriors of the 2012 Apocalypse
The Why Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGePkIW3Ac (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGePkIW3Ac)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 02, 2023, 11:19:26 pm
The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 05, 2023, 07:56:47 am
I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293
SmarterEveryDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on December 06, 2023, 05:19:27 pm
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second - AlphaPhoenix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXv49dDQJw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXv49dDQJw)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 10, 2023, 02:17:51 pm
#1700 SMD Fixture for LCR Meter
IMSAI Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc9aZCIS4vw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc9aZCIS4vw)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 18, 2023, 11:26:12 am
The Fascinating Geometry of Transistors - Asking an Expert
Dr. Shane Oberloier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsbIUXoGA28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsbIUXoGA28)

 :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 18, 2023, 12:40:47 pm
Giant Vacuum
Buttered Side Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLE9DRnH01o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLE9DRnH01o)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Andy Chee on December 19, 2023, 12:04:44 pm
Recreation of Chernobyl inspection robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X12N5QeTYho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X12N5QeTYho)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on December 21, 2023, 10:50:29 am
Microscopic Marvel in your Earbuds
Breaking Taps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQkrD2D-XFA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQkrD2D-XFA)

 ;)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Dan123456 on December 27, 2023, 03:06:28 am
Just had this recommended to me and thought it was pretty cool  :)

The theory and maths of Quantum computing is waaaaay above my head but I find the subject super interesting none the less and she does a really good job explaining it in layman’s terms  :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tHfGucHtLqo
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on December 29, 2023, 07:42:14 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlrbfGZo2k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlrbfGZo2k)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Andy Chee on January 03, 2024, 08:23:33 am
In the spirit of giant 555 timer (https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652), this guy makes a giant LED:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZp27KoJyxI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZp27KoJyxI)

Need to combine the two together and make a giant LED flasher!
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 14, 2024, 03:55:48 pm
Light pressure, The mechanical effect of photons
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJaeKPIcywI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJaeKPIcywI)

Not a Crookes, not a crook.  :-DMM
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 19, 2024, 11:10:40 am
Humans vs Superhumans | When Monsters Were Real and We Almost Went Extinct
The Why Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juyvnVL6V7g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juyvnVL6V7g)

 :scared:
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 23, 2024, 12:23:55 pm
UNSW Quantum Computer Lab Visit - Part 2
EEVdiscover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0Znr0Et4w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0Znr0Et4w)

 8)

Inside a Quantum Computer! with Andrea Morello (Part 1 of 2)
EEVdiscover
https://youtu.be/k_QeSOIDiEM (https://youtu.be/k_QeSOIDiEM)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Andy Chee on January 28, 2024, 03:51:35 am
Steam engine phone charger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UEY04lKSU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UEY04lKSU)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 31, 2024, 10:02:41 am
I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel
Inkbox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU)

 :-+
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on January 31, 2024, 11:01:03 am
Light pressure, The mechanical effect of photons
xofunkox-scientific experiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJaeKPIcywI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJaeKPIcywI)

Not a Crookes, not a crook.  :-DMM
The final laser illumination seems to push that foil way too fast.  All you need are a few molecules of air to generate the helping Crooke's effect you get in low air pressure environments.  That setup is just too insensitive and doesn't have any true measurement or math to back up what you see as being true sole light radiation pressure.  (I guess unless he is using a 100-500 watt laser, that foil is just moving way too fast..)

     Now for the real-Mcoy, a video from Cody's Lab.  He created a sensitive enough balance scale, calculated the power of the source laser light attaining the predicted force of the light, created a calibration weight (10x that of the light pressure on a mirror surface) to calibrate his balance scale, then measured the light's force VS the calibration weight and found a close enough match that you know what he measured was real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1X8mPJziA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1X8mPJziA)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on January 31, 2024, 12:28:07 pm
Clever experiment setup from Cody.  :-+
Now I know how to make a super sensitive scale with nothing but passive mechanical elements and a magnet, thanks.

In the Cody's experiment, I would have also aimed at the Al foil through the glass bottle while missing the reflecting/absorbing target, and also made yet another measurement with the mirror tilted 45 degree, in order to check if the point where the laser first hits the glass is heaving any influence or not.

Don't know about the xofunkox's experiment, but he is certainly aware about the possible influence of air molecules.  All his videos are without any further explanations and very short, with only 1-2 minutes filming various physics experiments and apparatus, so no surprise that there is no effort to convince others that the experiment was conducted properly.

About the foil acceleration seen in xofunkox's experiment, seems plausible when compared with Cody's experiment, since Cody's instrument was heaving a huge mass to move, when compared with just a thin foil under a high vacuum bell.
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Andy Chee on February 11, 2024, 11:24:33 am
You've probably heard of SWR standing wave ratio on transmission lines, but what about explosions in tunnels?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSJhrRY-Pc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSJhrRY-Pc)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 15, 2024, 09:01:02 am
The Science of SpaceX Starship’s Thermal Tiles
Breaking Taps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7mpjHGiFU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7mpjHGiFU)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: NiHaoMike on February 17, 2024, 12:43:37 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BndlxWp65Qo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BndlxWp65Qo)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on February 20, 2024, 09:41:25 pm
 :scared: And now for something completely insane...  :scared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JfHudxB1fo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JfHudxB1fo)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on February 21, 2024, 07:13:20 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EI08o-IGYk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EI08o-IGYk)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on February 21, 2024, 07:25:46 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3uk7jU3RHo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3uk7jU3RHo)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on February 25, 2024, 11:02:56 pm
WORLD OF TOMORROW by DON HERTZFELDT
don hertzfeldt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUIxEWmsvI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUIxEWmsvI)

 :)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: Andy Chee on February 27, 2024, 10:13:50 pm
FPV quadcopter at 250km/h follows a F1 car around Silverstone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pEqyr_uT-k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pEqyr_uT-k)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on March 02, 2024, 02:25:30 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT20A4KQxyM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT20A4KQxyM)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 02, 2024, 06:33:19 am
Building a wall-hanging sound sculpture | shell-tethered vesper
Eirik Brandal
https://eirikbrandal.com/ (https://eirikbrandal.com/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ZAp6HtYOs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ZAp6HtYOs)

 ^-^
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on March 04, 2024, 01:45:38 am
Fascinating: https://xairy.io/articles/thinkpad-xdci
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 20, 2024, 10:03:11 pm
Can a Little Oil Really Calm the Ocean?
The Action Lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST_ylwVrUw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST_ylwVrUw)

 ???
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on March 22, 2024, 01:35:53 pm
WTF?  :scared: 
(Gearless right angle drive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz6TUjSE5WU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz6TUjSE5WU)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8RAypUX_c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8RAypUX_c)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on March 29, 2024, 11:21:44 am
Why is this number everywhere?
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98)

42  ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 02, 2024, 05:29:06 am
But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers | Deep learning, chapter 5
3Blue1Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M)

 :-/O

Neural Networks (playlist, all chapters)
3Blue1Brown
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 03, 2024, 05:37:45 pm
2252 - Mushroom Power - How To Turn A Mushroom Into A Supercapacitor
Robert Murray-Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJlqNpa1UY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJlqNpa1UY)

 8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: BrianHG on April 08, 2024, 03:39:13 am
The wonder material.  Just take care to never breath it in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHlQyUecM8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHlQyUecM8)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 08, 2024, 05:53:14 am
Asbestos - The Evil Dust
STORMConsultancy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihgCi2k7M04 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihgCi2k7M04)

 :scared:


Later edit:
At minute 17:35 the video mentions that the first 40 floors of the former WTC skyscrapers were sprayed with asbestos floor insulation, then the industry regulation laws against spraying construction walls with asbestos come up, and they stopped spraying asbestos for the rest of the WTC floors (however, other non-sprayed asbestos materials were banned only decades later) https://youtu.be/ihgCi2k7M04?t=1055 (https://youtu.be/ihgCi2k7M04?t=1055)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 11, 2024, 08:26:44 am
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner
bunnie:studios
(bunnie's blog) (https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/a-2-axis-multihead-light-positioner/)
Quote
...
And below is a video of a region of a chip being imaged while the azimuth of the light is continuously varied:
https://bunniefoo.com/iris/2024/gf180-5x-psi_small.mp4 (https://bunniefoo.com/iris/2024/gf180-5x-psi_small.mp4)

Looking at a chip die using infrared, and without decapping the chip?!  :o
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: T3sl4co1l on April 11, 2024, 05:02:35 pm
Not without decapping -- these are bare-die parts, of course.  Usually CSPs, but many CPUs are included, which seems to be what they're looking at here.  They're also flip-chips, so the substrate is what's presented, allowing long enough wave IR to peer into the active region, the transistors themselves -- well, not really, the wavelength spans dozens of actual transistors on today's finest pitch processes, but the reflection still depends upon the density and pattern of transistors, trenching and doping, so you get that.

The pros use it, plus direct emissions, to investigate their own chips -- malfunctions can emit light (unintended minority-carrier hijinx) or even locally heat up (thermal emission), greatly reducing exploration time on the SEM, let alone cutting (FIB), sectioning and TEM.  Or other tweaks; maybe you can hit parts with light of suitable wavelengths and cause effects -- kind of the microelectronic analog to hot and cold spray when testing ye olde discrete circuits.

Tim
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 11, 2024, 05:53:33 pm
Found the paper, the technique is "in-situ", but it's for wafer-level chip scale packaging (WL-CSP) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-level_packaging).
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.07406.pdf (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.07406.pdf)

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2023/infra-red-in-situ-iris-inspection-of-silicon/ (https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2023/infra-red-in-situ-iris-inspection-of-silicon/)
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 20, 2024, 07:27:48 pm
Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 1 | Free Energy & Anti-Gravity Cover-Ups
The Why Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZRwlYtAMps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZRwlYtAMps)

 ;D
Title: Re: Fun for nerds
Post by: RoGeorge on April 22, 2024, 03:45:16 am
Ain't No Twin Primes (live) | Bill Withers parody by Acapella Science and 3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzKCZHeVjY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzKCZHeVjY)

 ^-^