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Dissecting An IEE Projection Display

Total Discombobulation Ahead! Don't feel too bad.... this little display is taking one for the team. Enjoy!

Driving An IEE Projection Display From 1962

Thanks to the viewer who sent in these cool displays for us to look at!

Unscripted YouTube vs. Closed Captions

Yes, I spent the time to proofread the text for this short video, but I cannot do it for all the videos - just some of them. Let me explain why....

Top Team FranLab Time!

FranLab Live: Patreon Appreciation Edition

Thanks to all my great Patrons! I hope that I can coax more people to pitch in and support FranLab this year, and that way I can continue to do this weird job for one more trip around the Sun.

Science News!

Pete Drake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9an8AU3No

Documentaries And Doing It For Real

The current craze of making everything more better by creating artificial detail and painting over actual footage just creeps me out to no end. Let me rant about it a bit.

Science vs. Belief

There used to be a time when most people were content to just admit that they did not understand something, but those days are over. Today everybody understands everything, and everyone is the expert. Enjoy!!!!

Amazing Heart Machines: Oura and Kardia

Just a couple of the gadgets that I am using - not an endorsement or a review. Enjoy!

FranLab Live: This Should Be Fun Edition

This seems eerily familiar...

Setting Up The Shaper Workstation

What year is this? Oh yea... just about catching up to where I was two years ago with all the projects that I had to set aside due to the big Lab move, and this one was stalled a bit longer due the something that happened in 2020. Not sure what it was. Anyway.... Enjoy!

Mechanical Pencils

Time to look at some new mechanical pencils, and some rather old ones... Enjoy!

A Look Inside An Optical Pulse Meter

I found that not all pulse meters are alike... But you can't tell by looking at them.

InfoAge Computer Exhibit Walking Tour

My visit at VCF East 2024 - they had a lot of vintage computers up and running, all of which you can play and program.... Enjoy!

Running A PDP-8 From 1965

Thanks to the Vintage Computer Federation - https://vcfed.org/

Running A Univac 1219 Computer From 1969

Thanks to the Vintage Computer Federation - https://vcfed.org/

Tiny Tube Surprise Viewer Mail!

Everybody loves themselves some Viewer Mail. Enjoy!

Science News!

Time for some nerd news....

Are Safer Power Tools In The Future?

Pending legislation might change the landscape of power tools in the near future. Is it time we moved shop tools into the 21st century?

Renting Movies In 1964

In the post WWII years there was a huge industry of providing 16mm films for events, businesses, and organizations all over the US and this is how they did it... Enjoy!

FranLab Mini

Eat My Shorts!

All Hail the algorithm! I have rebranded the YouTube Shorts playlist as FranLab Mini with a new perspective on making rapidly digestible yet still interesting content. The first of this new kind is a little video about an old catalog I recently found. Enjoy!

Introductory Fountain Pens!

The new Pilot Kaküno is not the first to claim to be the best 1st fountain pen - it's not even the first Pilot pen to claim that - but I'll take an objective look at it here. Enjoy!

The Magic Of Muxing!

Back to the Packard Seven Segment Numitron Driver Board, this time to get it to do what it is designed to do - Multiplexing! Enjoy...

Making The FranLab Nixie Crawl

Movie Magic, Luv.... (and some science) Enjoy!

Hello To My 452 Free Patrons!

When I signed up to Patreon in January of 2017 it was an experiment that I did not have any expectations for, but over the first two years I managed to build up enough support here to fund much of FranLab and take the channel full time. Since then all the way to 2022 it only grew, and we have been able to do so much more than I had ever dreamed...

Resurrecting A Vintage Numitron Board

Back to the bench for some adventures...

Spiral Pencil Time

A crazy idea that in the hand is not really crazy at all. It's a lot of fun! Enjoy....

Panaplex Mystery Meter!

A random Ebay find does not disappoint! Enjoy....

Science News! More Lead More Better?

And now, the news.....

FranLab Live: Shirts!!!!

Last chance for C-64 shirts - https://www.customink.com/fundraising/c-64-basic-shirt