PickVidsBest Embedded systems & DIY electronics Videos
The 92 Embedded systems & DIY electronics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 9 introductory, 38 intermediate, 35 for a general viewer, and 10 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Ben Eater, Applied Science, bigclivedotcom.
UPDATED: How to: Reset C by GE Light Bulbs
GE Lighting's official how-to for factory resetting C by GE smart bulbs, using a long sequence of precisely timed on and off cycles.
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
Johnny Chung Lee shows how infrared light pens and a Wii Remote can make a very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboard or tablet display.
SmackBook
A very short demo of SmackBook, a hack that used the MacBook Pro's sudden motion sensor so that smacking the sides of the laptop switches desktop spaces.
Nook simple touch e-ink games
A brief clip of a Nook Simple Touch e-ink reader running PlayStation 1 games through an emulator with a hacked fast refresh rate.
Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs
A demo of Deldo, an Emacs package that lets Emacs hooks trigger vibration events on computer-controllable sex toys.
Gboard 両面バージョン
A short Google Japan promotional video, in Japanese, for Gboard Double-Sided, a keyboard with no back side that comes in a paper-craft version and a full electronics version.
Building Glitterbomb 1.0 with Mark Rober
Sean Hodgins shows the build of the Arduino-based glitter bomb package-theft trap he made with Mark Rober, covering the electronics and the problems that came up.
WWDC24: Go small with Embedded Swift | Apple
An Apple WWDC24 session introducing Embedded Swift, a subset of Swift with no runtime that targets tiny microcontrollers.
Making Microchips at Home - Cooking with Jeri Part1
Jeri Ellsworth shows early steps of making microchips at home: cleaving wafers, removing native oxide, testing dopant type with a hot probe, and loading the furnace.
Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology
Breaking Taps tries to build semiconductor fabrication capability at home, working through decades of lithography history while chasing one-micrometer features.
TI DOOM
A short video of someone playing Doom on a TI-83+ graphing calculator, with a link to the version used.
Bad Apple on an E-ink E paper display (2022)
A demo of the Bad Apple music video played back at 60 FPS on an e-ink display, up from 2.4 FPS in an earlier attempt.
Qt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor
A short demo of a 3D Wayland compositor built with Qt 5 and QtWayland, mapping input to and compositing the output of Wayland applications in a 3D scene, also running on a Raspberry Pi.
Quake on an oscilloscope
A demo of Quake's E1M1 rendered as vector graphics on a Hitachi oscilloscope.
I made a 32" Digital eInk Newspaper
A short project video in which Greg Raiz turns a 32-inch eInk display into a wireless digital newspaper showing daily front pages.
XBOX Controller Mods: Analog WASD Gaming Keyboard
Ben Heck modifies a keyboard with magnets, Hall effect sensors and an Xbox controller so the WASD keys give analog control.
Ambient Backscatter
A short University of Washington demo of ambient backscatter, where battery-free devices communicate by reflecting existing wireless signals.
Lars Bak - The Making of a Secure and Robust IoT Development Platform
A Curry On talk by Lars Bak, known for V8 and Dart, on building a secure and robust IoT development platform.
The Floppotron: Sweet Dreams
The Floppotron plays a cover of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams using an orchestra of old computer hardware such as floppy drives, hard drives and scanners, driven by microcontrollers.
Bringing BACK The iPhone Headphone Jack - in China
Strange Parts spends four months, seven custom circuit boards and several disassembled iPhones adding a working headphone jack to an iPhone 7 in China.