Here's a preliminary experiment with something else I dragged out of the trash. I don't think it's actually a real fresnel lens but I don't really know. In any case it's a big magnifying glass that I will definitely be doing some more experimenting with in the future.
Video:
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
C'mere and Taste This!
It's Beer Review In A Minute Or Two time again!
This episode features Strong Framboise (Raspberry) Beer from Amsterdam Brewing Co. in Toronto.
My good buddy, Matt, brought this beer to me after it had been sitting for a long time so I'm not sure if it had gone bad or if it started out bad... I've said too much...
Watch the video:
This episode features Strong Framboise (Raspberry) Beer from Amsterdam Brewing Co. in Toronto.
My good buddy, Matt, brought this beer to me after it had been sitting for a long time so I'm not sure if it had gone bad or if it started out bad... I've said too much...
Watch the video:
Monday, March 21, 2011
Hedge Hacker
G'day!
Here's another piece of trashed-turned-treasure that I've been playing with. A discarded Black&Decker cordless hedge trimmer I picked up with no battery. I thought I was going to have to build my own battery pack for it but I found a better way:
Here's another piece of trashed-turned-treasure that I've been playing with. A discarded Black&Decker cordless hedge trimmer I picked up with no battery. I thought I was going to have to build my own battery pack for it but I found a better way:
Friday, March 18, 2011
Two of my favorite things in one bottle!
Howdy again, folks!
I'm trying to institute a bit of a video/blog posting schedule. I'm hoping people will like me more if I'm consistent :)
Here's how the schedule looks so far:
On weekends or early in the week I'm going to try to post a video/blog about workshop,
radio controlled things or "fun with science" type subjects. Annnnd fridays are beer review day!
This week was a long time favorite beer that I can't get locally anymore (thanks, NSLC): Young's Luxury Double Chocolate Stout. As usual I'll give you a relatively quick and very nearly informative review in the video below:
I'm trying to institute a bit of a video/blog posting schedule. I'm hoping people will like me more if I'm consistent :)
Here's how the schedule looks so far:
On weekends or early in the week I'm going to try to post a video/blog about workshop,
radio controlled things or "fun with science" type subjects. Annnnd fridays are beer review day!
This week was a long time favorite beer that I can't get locally anymore (thanks, NSLC): Young's Luxury Double Chocolate Stout. As usual I'll give you a relatively quick and very nearly informative review in the video below:
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Clutching At Cordless Drills
What's happenin, forum?
Yeah... I just wanted to be like Raywilliamjohnson on youtube there for a minute...
Anyway, if you haven't figured it out by now I like to take stuff apart. Sometimes on a good day these things even go back together and work again. Sometimes not...
In any case I generally learn something and/or injure myself in the process.
My latest quest of knowledge involved the drivetrain of a cordless drill. I wanted to know how the clutch part worked... in fact I wanted to know how to defeat the clutch so I could use the gearbox without it for another project further on down the road.
As per usual I'll do the actual explanation in the video below and you can learn with me for a couple minutes... think of it as edu-tainment!
Yeah... I just wanted to be like Raywilliamjohnson on youtube there for a minute...
Anyway, if you haven't figured it out by now I like to take stuff apart. Sometimes on a good day these things even go back together and work again. Sometimes not...
In any case I generally learn something and/or injure myself in the process.
My latest quest of knowledge involved the drivetrain of a cordless drill. I wanted to know how the clutch part worked... in fact I wanted to know how to defeat the clutch so I could use the gearbox without it for another project further on down the road.
As per usual I'll do the actual explanation in the video below and you can learn with me for a couple minutes... think of it as edu-tainment!
Monday, March 7, 2011
Don't be afraid of the dark... beers.
Howdy!
I'm trying a new thing out to better combine Youtube with another of my hobbies: beer. The basic concept is quick and simple beer reviews. Us beer snobs find it way too easy to ramble on about the "nose" of a beer or what every detail on the label says. Basically we tend to bore all the sober people and some of the less sober people pretty badly. That's what my idea is about/for. For the inaugural run of my new review style I'm trying out St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout. That's about all I want to tell you in text form so watch the video for the rapid review:
I'm trying a new thing out to better combine Youtube with another of my hobbies: beer. The basic concept is quick and simple beer reviews. Us beer snobs find it way too easy to ramble on about the "nose" of a beer or what every detail on the label says. Basically we tend to bore all the sober people and some of the less sober people pretty badly. That's what my idea is about/for. For the inaugural run of my new review style I'm trying out St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout. That's about all I want to tell you in text form so watch the video for the rapid review:
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