Secret Life of Machines veers off into the Secret Life of LEDs

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Andrew Gorman
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Secret Life of Machines veers off into the Secret Life of LEDs

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One benefit of COVID is that Tim Hunkin, Brit tinkerer extraordinare and host of the 1980s BBC show "The Secret Life of Machines" has come up with a youtube series on the Secret Life of Components- Bearings! Chains! Springs" Blackmail! Blue Films! Narcotics! ( not really those last three) and has a good tutorial on LEDs that might be of interest here at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvcITqw5iDY
He also has a few remastered episodes of the tv show which brightened up my drab existence on the road in the 1990s American midwest.
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Thanks
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Andrew Gorman wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:02 pmand has a good tutorial on LEDs that might be of interest here at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvcITqw5iDY
Hey, cool, thanks!
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Thanks, loved his shows as a kid and still have them on VHS that I recorded off the TV. My parents visited his arcade in Southwold last weekend.
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