Category: culture

  • The Secret Life of Components: LEDs

    The Secret Life of Components: LEDs

    The second in Tim Hunkin’s eight-episode series for makers, The Secret Life of Components, is up. This episode focuses on LEDs. A subject I finally know a tiny bit about because some mechanical keyboards can use them, but there is a lot more to learn from Hunkin about LEDs and he goes through a short…

  • The Secret Life of Components: Chain

    The first episode of Tim Hunkin’s The Secret Life of Components, which as you may have determined I am very happy to watch, is now available on Tim Hunkin’s YouTube channel. This first episode covers everything you need to know about working with chain to make things. The show’s creator and star, has this to…

  • Tim Hunkin is Back on March 4th with The Secret Life of Components

    The Secret Life of Machines‘ Tim Hunkin announced a new series consisting of eight episodes about components for making things. In the announcement video above Hunkin lets us know that he has been inspired by online crafters showing how they do things, and offers to show us his processes for working with glue, switches, connectors,…

  • Daft Punk’s Retirement

    Daft Punk announced their retirement via the above video titled Epilogue today after almost three decades of making tremendous music. What a career.

  • Radio Garden

    A lot of things about the internet are sad these days. With the internet people can find their kind of people and that is how you end up with good things like people who like mechanical keyboards developing their own keyboard projects but you also get groups of white supremacists organizing to storm the U.S.…