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.
8-bit computer update
Ben Eater's short update announcing his plan to build another 8-bit computer from scratch on camera.
Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
Tom Murphy (suckerpinch) shows 'reverse emulation', using a Raspberry Pi in an NES cartridge to give an unmodified NES new abilities such as playing SNES games.
“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
Ben Eater starts a series building a working computer on breadboards around the 6502 microprocessor.
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED
A WIRED Future Cities documentary on Shenzhen, covering its hardware-prototyping culture and shanzhai copycat manufacturing.
"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)
Chuck Moore, inventor of Forth, presents GreenArrays' 144-core asynchronous chip at Strange Loop 2013.
The world's worst video card?
Ben Eater explains how VGA signals work and builds a breadboard circuit that produces correct sync timing so a monitor recognizes the signal.
How does a USB keyboard work?
Ben Eater explains how a USB keyboard communicates, covering the electrical interface, bit and packet encoding, packet contents, and a comparison with PS/2.
Brick Assembly
A maker's time-lapse of building a working computer inside a LEGO-style brick, using a tiny 0.42-inch OLED screen, with a demo at the end.
"Z2" - Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips
Sam Zeloof shows the upgraded second iteration of his homemade silicon integrated circuit fabrication process, producing chips with around a thousand transistors in his garage.
E-paper hacking: fastest possible refresh rate
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science explains how electrophoretic e-paper displays work and how he modified the driver firmware and waveform lookup tables of a 4.2-inch panel to reach roughly 3Hz partial refresh.
C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware - Khalil Estell - CppCon 2024
Khalil Estell's CppCon 2024 talk argues C++ exceptions can reduce binary size in firmware.
Building a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen (part 1)
The first part of Robert Baruch's series on building a 6800 CPU on an FPGA with nMigen, a Python-based hardware description language.
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Johnny Lee demonstrates head tracking with a Wii remote and a head-mounted pair of IR LEDs, so a screen acts like a window into a 3D scene as your head moves.
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
Veritasium visits the Micromouse competition, where small autonomous robots race to solve mazes at extreme speed.
My old BBC Micro system
Mike of mikeselectricstuff shows his heavily modified old BBC Micro system in a 28-minute tour of 8-bit hardware archaeology.
I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal
Part one of Look Mum No Computer's series on buying a whole church pipe organ, covering how it was removed from its home.
The Commodordion
Linus Akesson demonstrates the Commodordion, a fully functional 8-bit accordion built around Commodore 64 hardware with bellows made of floppy disks.
I made a talking banana
A maker builds a talking banana that reads YouTube and Twitch comments aloud on stream, then fights viewers who abuse it with profanity.
Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years
A look inside Dr Abrasive's lab as he engineers a flash-card replacement for the Sega Saturn optical drive after cracking its CD protection 20 years on.
電磁祭囃子 in NEO TOKYO 🏮
A short music video by the Japanese group Electronicos Fantasticos, led by Ei Wada, playing festival-style music on repurposed old electronics.
(Sponsored) KiCad STM32 + USB + Buck Converter PCB Design and JLCPCB Assembly - Phil's Lab #11
A roughly three-hour screen recording of designing a barebones STM32F4 board in KiCad, covering schematic, four-layer layout and routing, USB and a buck converter.
"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings
A Strange Loop 2019 talk by Aaron Cummings on the computing systems aboard Voyager 1 and 2, which control the spacecraft and record and return data decades after launch in 1977.
Design Your Own Keyboard!
Ben Vallack walks through designing a custom keyboard PCB from scratch using Ergogen and KiCad, ending with a gerber file ready to order from a PCB fabricator.
Growing Human Neurons on a Home Made Electrode Array
The Thought Emporium builds a homemade multi-electrode array, grows human neurons on it and attempts to take readings.