"Acme School of Stuff"  on YouTube, things taught in a FUN and thorough way - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2020, 05:40:36 pm
content: I thought this channel deserved to be shared, since the presenter has a very jolly, light-hearted way of explaining the subject matter, but also in a very thorough, calm and rational, concise and uncomplicated manner, without talking down to the viewers. Put it this way - I've seen MANY so-called "professional YouTuber" types taking 10x as long to explain 0.1x as well, using 1,000x more unnecessary fluff:https://www.youtube.com/user/acmeschoolAn example video:: A full series:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjDNRwQvwWAYRDZdASq33zq6zfgRPTXNv

author: Benta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2020, 06:42:30 pm
content: To me, "ACME" is the brand that Wile E. Coyote always used for his contraptions to catch the Roadrunner. It's burned into my brain

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2020, 06:57:48 pm
content: Quote from: Benta on August 29, 2020, 06:42:30 pmYes, me too! Even as a Brit (it took me a while, as a child, to work out what on earth "Acme" was)

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2020, 09:43:19 pm
content: I wonder if Warner Bros ever paid royalties to Acme Electrichttp://www.acmeelectriccompany.com/

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 29, 2020, 11:45:49 pm
content: Quote from: schmitt trigger on August 29, 2020, 09:43:19 pmDisney has Ajax instead, but afaiu Disney used it before any company used it

author: bw2341
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2020, 07:05:26 pm
content: The host is David Stringer and he was on a lot of shows on TVOntario back in the 80's. He has a website:http://davidstringer.ca/There are links to a few more of his Youtube channels. It's only a sample of all the shows he made as there were probably ten or so half-hour episodes for each series.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2020, 11:25:33 pm
content: Quote from: bw2341 on August 30, 2020, 07:05:26 pmOhhhh! thank you, he's a superb presenter (and that ain't so common) - I'll have a search, thanks so so much!

author: N2IXK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2020, 01:14:00 am
content: First came across him as a kid watching "Fast Forward" on PBS. I wish those shows were available online somewhere.....

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2020, 01:25:58 am
content: Quote from: langwadt on August 29, 2020, 11:45:49 pmI think Sophocles probably has prior claim (circa 442 BCE) who used it as the name of a play about the eponymous Ajax the Great. I'm sure that Ajax had been reused as a company/product name (as have many names from the classical era) well before there was such a thing as Disney.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2020, 01:35:31 am
content: Quote from: schmitt trigger on August 29, 2020, 09:43:19 pmI'd always taken ACME to be a reference to the Acme Machinery Co. who, among many other things, made anvils that had "ACME" cast into the side of them (The ACME trapezoidal thread is named after the company). I'd assumed that it started there and snowballed. Anybody who doesn't get why anvils are pivotal in Wile E. Coyote's world needs an introduction to the Looney Tunes theory of variable gravity and space-time.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2020, 04:08:08 am
content: I've seen so many ACMEs and always wondered what is so special in that name, never understood why people wanted that name for their companies

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2020, 11:48:07 am
content: Acme is the anglicised version of the classical Greek word ἀκμή and has roughly the same meaning as 'zenith', so 'the peak', the best, the highest achievable. It used to be used in English in phrases like "He/she/it was the acme of <some field of achievement>" but it's fallen out of common usage; you might see it if you're reading a Victorian novel.

author: N2IXK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 02, 2020, 06:52:39 pm
content: As to the usage in the Road Runner cartoons, I have heard that is stood for "A Company Making Everything".

author: SilverSolder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2020, 02:09:05 pm
content: I found the headquarters!

author: WattsThat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2020, 02:41:13 pm
content: That’s a northeast US based food store chain. Grew up shopping there. As a big fan of Loonie Tunes, I always wondered if that’s where the road runner did his food shopping....Here in the Philadelphia area, the regional pronunciation is ACK-A-ME