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Fixed it

Fixed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgWsFJScU8

I was able to rescue it entirely with editing! Rejoice.

This is the final version which I'll be releasing tomorrow. The two edits begin at about 1:16:25 and 1:28:00; I essentially just cut out the conjecture...

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Oops

Thanks to an attentive viewer, I have been informed that I got the entire explanation of Bayer color filters wrong in the gray scanner video. This does a tremendous amount of damage to the narrative and I will probably have to reshoot a big chunk of it. Just wanted to let you know, in case anybody else notices it and wants to point it out; there...

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Video: The Grey Scanner For Computer (Or: A Long And Incomplete History Of Scanning)

Video: The Grey Scanner For Computer (Or: A Long And Incomplete History Of Scanning)

I absolutely did not intend for this to be an hour and forty minutes long but once I got to a certain point it just didn't make sense for it to be any shorter. It's basically two videos, but the thing doesn't make sense without the history and the history isn't meaningful without the thing, and then in order to explain the history I had to expla...

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Side channel: OPS module vlog

Side channel: OPS module vlog

Haven't really done vlog style stuff in eons, didn't know if anyone would be interested, but I had a project to do yesterday and I figured it was a chance to talk at length about the whole OPS situation. That's been developing positively - I now have four of the modules and a fifth on the way, and two compatible TVs (thanks to Brandon and Kilian...

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Video & update

Video & update

Hey everyone, this is the finished version of little guys 8 which I'll be releasing tomorrow; I made a few adjustments and reshot a couple segments.

Mostly I just wanted to let you know that it might be a bit before I make another "proper" video. Daria is dealing with a minor health problem that's nonetheless going to persist for a ...

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Video: Little Guys Episode 6

Video: Little Guys Episode 6

This one was a slog; I find the topic absolutely fascinating, but perhaps as a result I struggled really hard to make it come out right. I shot this episode two months ago, then proceeded to shoot two more littles guy after that (hence why I uploaded episodes 7 and 8 without a 6; this was 6) but it just... stuck in my craw. I did n...

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Side video: Microscope machine

Side video: Microscope machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWROEp3GHp4

Another side channel video. Hopefully nobody minds the Patreon notifications; these are definitely lower quality than my typical output but idk, I figure a lot of people just like hearing me talk.

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Side channel video: Famiclone fire risk

Side channel video: Famiclone fire risk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVcLDsDi0w

This one didn't go the way I wanted it to so it's not fit for a main channel video but I figured it was fit for a side channel release. gl;hf!

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Video: Niveus Part 3: Hacking The Edge

Video: Niveus Part 3: Hacking The Edge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbDgSgHfcZw

This took SO MUCH LONGER THAN I EXPECTED and I made SO MANY MISTAKES.

Let it be known that I almost screwed up incredibly bad by trying to squeeze this whole process in at the end of the previo...

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Video: Niveus, Part 2

Video: Niveus, Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjrcB2qMbYU

I'll give this a proper title later, but: at long last, part two of the NiveusMedia saga arrives! And it's not quite the end, either; there will be a third video a bit later, but that one's a surprise. :)

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Video: Little Guys Ep 4, Supplemental

Video: Little Guys Ep 4, Supplemental

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbZNu0wasA

This one pretty much speaks for itself - I had a bunch of corrections and additions in re: the last video, enough for a whole video on its own. It actually ended up being pretty fun!

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Video: The Best "Laptop" Ever Made

Video: The Best "Laptop" Ever Made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5hYhdxIuk

I'd be lying if I said I didn't make this in response to another video but I'll take the specifics to my grave.

This computer is genuinely incredibly cool and I love it. It was also backbreaking...

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Video: Little Guys Ep 7

Video: Little Guys Ep 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFSlkQS31n8

In which I disassemble a cop-puter. Not the loveliest subject but the machine has a few interesting qualities. There's one significant correction I have to add before release, which is that the spring mechanism is...

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Video: Quick Start: Episode 7

Video: Quick Start: Episode 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs

Coming up with a thumbnail or title for this one is gonna be fun. I have no idea how to foreshadow any of this nonsense concisely, this computer has two egregious hacks that defy most brief explanations. ...

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Videos: Two (more) of them

Little Guys: Ep 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEz3E0k9F8

Little Guys: Ep 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEHKo8M_FMg

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Video(s): Three Of Them

So here's something new, or rather, three new things:

Li'l Guys ep 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kldj_NmR7oo

Li'l Guys ep 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2_X0FS2e...

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Video: Little Guys, Episode 1

Video: Little Guys, Episode 1

This is a new series I'm starting that's intended to be cozy, unscripted and low effort. I'm not planning on retiring the studio or anything, but I really need to do more videos that don't require all that setup and prep or I'm gonna burn out, plus it's actually harder to use that environment for off the cuff stuff like this. I really want to pu...

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Video: yet-untitled DVD player teardown

Video: yet-untitled DVD player teardown

Haven't named this one yet but I'm so tired of editing it - I just want to release it, I'll name it later. I bought a DVD player basically sight-unseen, mostly because it had a silly name, then sat down to shoot a video about it that was basically just... "here's this thing with a silly name and a silly splash screen, here's something neat you c...

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Video: Quick Start Gaiden: Episode 2

Video: Quick Start Gaiden: Episode 2

This was honestly one of the more fun episodes I've made in a while. That's kinda just the size of it. Enjoy!

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The Crab Rave Edit 🦀

Completely forgot to upload this after the last thrift store video (though the response to that one was so mixed I kinda just wanted to forget it, I guess.) This is not a cinematic masterpiece but I said I was gonna share it so here it is. 🦀

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Scrapped: Thrift Store Kit

Scrapped: Thrift Store Kit

There's a category of video I thought would be a lot more common when I set up my Patreon tiers, and that's "finished, perfectly watchable, but just not what I wanted, so it's going in the trash." As it's turned out however, when I'm not satisfied with a video, it's usually unwatchable crap. That is not the case with the one I finished a few day...

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Video: Niveus Media Center

Video: Niveus Media Center

I was going to come up with a better name for this and a thumbnail and stuff and maybe even release it publicly today but then my power went out. Here's a video everyone lmk what you think

https://youtu.be/Y2OPrGBxkD0

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Video: Two Thrifts And A Computer Store

Video: Two Thrifts And A Computer Store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4HAqGrJFCU

As noted in the video this was just intended as an exercise to test a new camera, but I ended up with enough footage to make a video. I was a little uncertain whether I'd get any weird looks walking into stores wi...

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Video: System Commander: Paying $60 For GRUB

Video: System Commander: Paying $60 For GRUB

This one took me an astonishing length of time to create since I just kept having to reshoot things, partly because I kept finding new dimensions to this program's limitations. I hope you enjoy it. Below is an essay about why I haven't done more videos on software.

Every time someone tells me I should do more videos on software,  I wa...

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Video: Thriftmas 2023

Video: Thriftmas 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGbHD65z4Ak

Hey everyone. I have been completely overwhelmed by the support you've all shown me, and I was going to the thrift store anyway, so here's a video about that to help you burn 40 minutes of dreary family gathering ...

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Health updates

Hey everyone, just wanted to check in and let you know how I'm doing. I don't want to post gruesome details here, but suffice to say, I spoke to my surgeon's office today and, phew, I was proper sick as it turns out. But they say my recovery is perfectly on track... Except that I misunderstood my discharge notes, and the level of activi...

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And we're back

And we're back

Will update when I'm feeling better but I made it.

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Health situation

So, the last month has been very difficult, and progress on my next video has been very slow, and partly that's due to some weird health issues I've been experiencing. In a definitely unrelated event, I am currently waiting to get an appendectomy.

It's not clear if this could be the cause of all of my problems, but I'm hoping it is, or t...

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Toasting in progress

Toasting in progress

There's probably not going to be a video for another week at least, because I have decided to start tackling the Video Toaster. Please pray for me.

I have the feeling I'm going to end up producing over four hours of material on this subject spread across several videos, because it is tremendous, it's very hard to say anything at all withou...

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Video: Weird Processors

Video: Weird Processors

Workshopping the name etc on this one. I've been having a really rough time the last few weeks with health issues and other stuff, hopefully things will get better soon, but I decided I couldn't put everything on hold indefinitely so I went ahead and wrote and shot this video entirely while dealing with a lot of stress and anxiety, so... if it h...

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