This is an interesting project. The use of dental X-ray packs was really innovative. The approporately snarky presentation about nanny-state nervous nellies was great. It all reminded me the X-ray chapter of C.L. Stong's great book "The Amateur Scientist." Here is a .pdf of the book: http://www.ke5fx.com/stong.pdf
The X-Ray machine in Stong's book appears on page 500 (520 in the .pdf) Here is the opening paragraphs:
Indeed, it was lonely up there in the 10^-8 cm band!
But who is behind Project 326? Who is the robot narrator's human assistant? At first I thought they were joking when they said they were in Southern China. But YouTube does show them in Hong Kong. He has British accent, but oddly he calls valves "tubes." He also seems to use quite a bit of SolderSmoke terminology and practice: He uses copper tape as a ground plane. He talks about relaeasing "Magic Smoke" and of passing or failing "the smoke test." Could it be that Project 326 had been listening to the SolderSmoke podcast? We hope so! Please let us know if y ou have any background info on this mad amateur scientist.
Here is the Project 326 YouTube channel:
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AI generated narration mentions problems with "the humidity in southern China"
ReplyDeleteI know. I thought they were kidding but the YouTube site shows them in Hong Kong!
DeleteI hadn't focued on the AI voice. So the British accent might not have been real. This would explain why he was saying tubes and not valves. But the humor seemed very British. So I dunno.
ReplyDeleteReading the original sci am article in the 60’s resulted in me getting a model t spark coil. Much excitement ensued. Good times.
ReplyDeleteHaving spent more than a little time in high school cleaning out vacuum pumps... Arrrgggghhhh the epoxy down the vacuum pump part!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteReally interesting video though.
Thank you for featuring my video. Some background for you, I am a British engineer and have lived in China for over 20 years. I am resident in both Hong Kong and Mainland China (Shenzhen, which is just over the border from Hong Kong). I used the term vacuum tubes as most of the viewers are from the US and us Brits are fully conversant with both terms, but in the US, they are often less 'bilingual' in these kinds of phrases.
ReplyDeleteHope that helps!