Category Archives: YouTubing

Casual Friday — another round-about way to make a household item

Posted on 5 August, 2011 by Sam Wise

After last week’s use of cameras to produce a monochrome monitor, here’s another fun do-it-yourself project — make your own clock…

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Casual Friday — the most expensive 250 pixel monitor you’ll ever see…

Posted on 29 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

A Japanese band called Androp made a music video using 250 cameras and their mounted flashes as a computer-driven backdrop…

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Casual Friday — closing out the space shuttle program

Posted on 22 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

With the safe landing of the space shuttle Atlantis, the shuttle program is now officially complete. Two videos seem to be particularly good for commemorating the event…

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Casual Friday — how “Polaroid” instant film is made

Posted on 15 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

How “The Impossible Project” makes new film for your old Polaroid instant camera…

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Casual Friday — Welcome to the Anthropocene!

Posted on 8 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

Back in 2000, a nobel laureate in Chemistry named Paul Crutzen proposed that the Earth is no longer in the Holocene era. Instead, he feels (and he’s gaining a lot of company) that we’ve long since entered the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity is playing a driving role in the planet’s ecosystems…

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Casual Friday — the first thought-provoking commercial for an electric car

Posted on 1 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

That I’ve seen, anyway — an ad for the Nissan LEAF, framing gas-powered machinery as downright primitive…

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Casual Friday — the “Iron Curtain” makes stopping rockets look easy

Posted on 24 June, 2011 by Sam Wise

An impressive video demonstration of a new technology to defend vehicles against rocket-propelled grenades…

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Causal Friday — Tearing down a hard drive

Posted on 17 June, 2011 by Sam Wise

Ever wonder what’s inside your computer’s hard drive? How it works? Bill “Engineer Guy” Hammack takes one apart just so you can learn from the experience…

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Casual Friday — does your camera’s autofocus system learn?

Posted on 3 June, 2011 by Sam Wise

If you think your camera’s autofocus system is pretty impressive, you’ll want to watch this video to see what’s really possible (or at least, soon will be)…

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Casual Friday — sand seas of the Solar System

Posted on 27 May, 2011 by Sam Wise

There are four worlds in our solar system that have both substantial atmospheres and solid surfaces — and each has sand seas covering some portion of its surface as a result. In this video, Lori Fenton, Research Scientist at the Carl Sagan Center, explains sand seas and what we can learn from them…

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