My old BBC Micro system on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2017–2022.
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Mike of mikeselectricstuff shows his heavily modified old BBC Micro system in a 28-minute tour of 8-bit hardware archaeology.
Recommended as an entry point to a favorite electronics channel, valued for deep knowledge and no showy bravado.
“Recommended - this guy knows his stuff, and unlike certain other youtube channels in this genre there is no annoying bravado.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
Mikes Electric Stuff is one of my absolute favourite channels on YouTube. Highly recommend. A couple of classics: Heavily modified BBC Micro: ▶ this video Design of LED sculpture with some interesting commentary: [link]
in “iPod Nano V6 LCD Hacking” · View on HN
If you can stand the video format, this one is unusually rewarding for being a youtube channel: [link] I started with this one: ▶ this video "My old BBC Micro system" ... which kind of established his credibilities in my mind, and then I just kept going, devouring his entire channel. Recommended - this guy knows his stuff, and unlike certain other youtube channels in this genre there is no annoying bravado.
in “Miscellaneous Arduino bits and pieces” · View on HN
I dig the guy much better than David Jones ( EEVBlog ). Here is Mike's BBC micro : ▶ this video Great stuff.
in “Chip Aging Accelerates” · View on HN