Electronics videos/podcasts to watch while falling asleep (seems rare on yt) - Page 1
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author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 21, 2025, 10:31:37 pm
content: Hello everyoneI have this bad habit from more than a decade where I cant sleep if I don't put something to listen to while trying to fall asleepNow after a decade I have an ENORMOUS amount of absolutely useless information from YouTube videosEg: current political situation in a country thousands of miles away - the battle that happen 2400 years ago - did dinosaurs have feathers - someone with a million dollars of debt on Ramsey show - the history of the congo air force - what if earth had rings - thousands of videos on how to trade on the stock market (we don't have stock market here lol) etc.....Now I've been trying to make use of this habit by trying to watch something useful like electronics , but didn't get lucky finding such videosYes there are A TON of videos online , put the point of this thread is to find something that you can understand while closing your eyes , just like a podcast , no video just soundI wasn't able to understand much of the hardware tutorials online since you need to see the circuit or the animation in order to understand, watching embedded coding tutorials (even though I think they're rare) is not much useful since you cant see the codeDave's unboxing/reviews are useless without watching the product lolRepair videos are useless since you cant see what he is doingAnd so on......I found only one video series on yt (I think the channel name is production and design , I'm not sure) where he gives advice on how to chose the correct esp32 for your pcb project , and how to handle the pcb design (just general advice) , another type of videos are the "how I learned electronics" type of videos, but you watch several ones of those and then it wont be very usefulI didn't get any luck finding other sorts of videos , and didn't find any sort of podcasts onlineNow if someone knows electronics videos/podcasts which can be understood while closing your eyes , please write it down in the repliesHere is some screen shots of my useless yt recommendations , one of them is literally "useless geographic facts if to listen to if you're trying to sleep" LOL

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 21, 2025, 10:40:26 pm
content: Join this channel:https://www.youtube.com/@isaacarthurSFIAYou will have years of content, each video being 35min to 60min...You got 10 years of consistent released content, 770 videos to date with 6 new ones each month.

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 21, 2025, 10:46:06 pm
content: Quote from: BrianHG on March 21, 2025, 10:40:26 pmummm yeah it is a scary amount of videosbut it is not related into electronicsthe main idea of this thread is to find useful electronics videos to watch falling asleep and they should be somewhat useful

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2025, 12:41:30 am
content: MOVIE: It's a Mad Mad Mad WorldWatched (or slept through) many times, so many that yt blocked it !No violence or any of the other messy content, this movie has the feature of including many, many iconic California landscapes,...many undeveloped, in the 1963 film.Much of the movie footage was filmed in Southern California.You've got your Jonathan Winter, as an angry, out for mayhem. The Three Stooges do a; ahem, 'Cameo' appearance.Typical run time maybe 1:40

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2025, 12:53:11 am
content: (sorry, didn't notice you were looking for ideas on learning technology.)ElectroBoom is good, on special high voltage stuff. Astronomy is probably the best, if only using audio, in bed there.

author: woofy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2025, 10:10:42 am
content: I can't imagine electroboom good for falling asleep to.My other half likes gardening videos, that usually does it for me.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2025, 06:34:59 am
content: bigclivedotcom tends to make me want to fall asleep if I watch his videos at 1x speed. I usually do at 2x-2.25x.

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2025, 10:05:28 am
content: BigClive's livestreams are even better for that. They're nowadays on Twitch, athttps://www.twitch.tv/bigclivedotcom.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2025, 10:15:52 am
content: Quote from: osmax_br on March 21, 2025, 10:31:37 pmFTFYSuggestion: get a book or magazine with many small (<<1 page) independent sections. Read them until the book falls out your hand, then turn over and instantly fall asleep.I use Private Eye, and TAoE X-Chapters. I'd use TAoE, but it is too big and heavy to be suitable.Or put the radio on; here Radio 4 or the (BBC) World Service is suitable.

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2025, 10:45:54 am
content: Quote from: tggzzz on March 23, 2025, 10:15:52 amI thought I did a grammatical mistake lolIt is funny that my generation forgot that books exists lol , people nowadays watch tutorials on yt or courses on udemy to get informationI will try it for sureI am currently reading "FreeRTOS for ESP32-Arduino: Practical Multitasking Fundamentals" by warren gayThe book is excellent, however the code examples must be simplifiedEg : when you want to demonstrate a queue with multiple tasks , you could just send one simple message via the queues to let the students know how they work , however in this book he does complex projects just to demonstrate simple thing , for the queues example he used an ultrasonic with ssd1306 display, he didn't use libraries for the ultrasonic, you had to understand 2 new things , how ultrasonic works and how queues work , this is a simple example , but as the book go forward the examples get harder to understand because of the off-topic thingsFor denouncing buttons (was in first chapter explaining the absolute fundamentals of multitasking) he used a weird way of denouncing, instead of using timers he used bitwise manipulation where he stores the state of the button in 32 bit variables which makes a rolling history of the button presses and then compare it into a mask , is it a good implementation? Maybe , is it a good way to give example to beginners about multitasking? Absolutely no!

author: 5U4GB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2025, 11:03:05 am
content: Quote from: woofy on March 22, 2025, 10:10:42 amA Sunn O))) concert recording. Start it playing and by the time they get to the second note you're asleep.

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2025, 11:10:38 am
content: I also remembered one more YouTuber , andreas spiess , the guy with swiss accentHis sound is so monotone which urges you to sleep lolHowever understanding his videos while closing my eyes had varied success

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2025, 11:29:13 am
content: Quote from: osmax_br on March 23, 2025, 10:45:54 amYoootooob videos are so sloooooow that they waste too much of my life and reduce the amount I can read. Why? The spoken word is ~60words per minute (youtube much lower due to pauses, um, ahs, repetition). I can speedread a page (maybe 1000-2000 words) in 30s to determine whether it contains something I want to concentrate on.Yoooootooob videos are purely linear, so I can't easily locate and skip to the small part that is interesting => waste of my life.When I was young the key skill was to find an information source and extract as much as possible from it. Nowadays there are so many sources that the key skill is exactly theopposite: to quickly determine what toignore. Hence yoootooob videos are mostly a problem.Most yoootooob videos are talking heads that don't require moving pictures. But they are easy to make and stroke the creators' ego.Simple example of the above: TAoE. It is easy to find what you are looking for via the ToC and/or index(es). Compare the amount ofsolid useful informationon each page with thelackof that in yootoob videos. Other decent books can be the same, but everybody here is familiar TAoE.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 12:38:06 am
content: I nearly always set the speed to at least 2x when watching videos on Youtube (including Dave) as most people on there talk far too slowly. There are a few who do normally talk fast enough that I go down to 1.7-1.8x.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 11:16:02 am
content: Quote from: amyk on March 25, 2025, 12:38:06 amA factor of 2 is <<10There is one yootoober who speaks as rapidly as I can read: CGP Grey. I go so far as torecommendhim because his videos are carefully planned, excellent informative images, concise informative speech/text - and short. The TL;DR is that he thinks of his audience and thinks before he speaks (and probably re-does bits that aren't up to standard).If only others could emulate that.

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 11:47:57 am
content: Quote from: tggzzz on March 23, 2025, 11:29:13 amI once had a heated discussion with Dave and others about this. In my opinion, videos are excellent for demos and examples (and that kind of "tutorials"), but do not suffice at all as reference material.I don't use Youtube as a reference for information except demos and examples: stuff like how to properly open up a laptop, for example; and on supporting explanations and practical stuff like Dave's Basics Tutorials and similar. Plus teardowns, of course, with DiodeGoneWild or BigClive checking out the implementation and their opinions on it (or rather, the reasons for their opinion, as in safety and isolation and neatness of design).I also read a lot, and am nowadays pretty good at finding the useful bits in text. I like to occasionally delve into the science of physics and computing via peer-reviewed articles, but don't currently have paid access to any journals, so I'm limited to the open access stuff. I often look at interesting IC datasheets, even if I don't intend to use it for anything particular, especially when others discuss related circuits.With video, I have the problem ofexcess information, as in tone and body language, that distracts me. (I'm faulty in parsing that nonverbal stuff: it takes a lot of my meager brainpower. It often happens that all thatextramakes me initially miss details I only realize a bit later. It relatively rarely happens with written text, because there is much less superfluous distracting information then.)I do realize that some people kinda-sortaneedthose human nonverbal cues, because they've externalized the initial qualification of the information to a human presenter. I don't think that is wise, because that is exploited by confidence artists and ideologues; a security hole if you will. Plus, just think what it would be like if IC datasheets werevideosinstead of written text and diagrams.I do enjoy observing others doing their work, when they explain (or at least hint) why they are doing it the way they do. I've done some workflow opimization work for others, and that is a key part of it; plus, when doing something I haven't done, it tends to give me ideas. So, I typically enjoy woodworking and metalworking/machining videos for "entertainment". For late-night listening, old sci-fi via Librevox is nice, too. BigClive's live sessions are more like idle shop talk around electronics and lighting.

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 12:15:45 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on March 23, 2025, 11:29:13 amMagazines were *THE* source of information about programming and electronics.Nowadays... they are all dead, all gone.And Youtube is not the natural replacement.Quote from: tggzzz on March 23, 2025, 11:29:13 amLet me get this straight, if you were to open a YT channel about GNU/Linux and C ...... would you preferA) the camera to be pointed at the screen, with a speaking voice that you can't see where it's coming from,B) instead of a moving head talking about things?

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 12:23:03 pm
content: Quote from: amyk on March 25, 2025, 12:38:06 amone advantage of being a native speakerI had to train for 6 years until I was able to listen to videos at x2 speed , I still use the captions , they are a life saver

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 12:30:27 pm
content: Quote from: DiTBho on March 25, 2025, 12:15:45 pmWe had this conversation before on one of the threads , nowadays there isn't much magazines availableThe only one that I can think of is elektor , they are excellent, I've read some books published by them , however I feel sometimes that they are a bit priceySome people also suggested nuts and voltsI think that some websites like random nerd tutorials are somewhat an alternative to the tutorials in magazines

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 12:37:05 pm
content: Quote from: osmax_br on March 21, 2025, 10:31:37 pmI would highly recommend Mr. Carlson's Lab. I like his knowledge and dedication to repairs, but I can hardly stand the videos, as I'm literally falling half asleep after half an hour.(Which really is a pity, because I like those videos a lot.)https://www.youtube.com/@MrCarlsonsLab

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 12:40:20 pm
content: Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 25, 2025, 11:47:57 amhmm, on YT it only happens withJenny, a redhead girl who doesn't know exactly what to do with her channel.I never understood how many nose piercings she has on her nose, sometimes two, sometimes three, sometimes one.But she always wrinkles it when she talks about her skills with skateboards and halfbikes.And at the end of her videos, in all videos, she always invariably scrapes her knees!AndLinus LTT, who has a face I would slap a lot.But I respect his business partnerAnthony.Whitney Knittermade a really well-made introductory sequence in every videoshowing urban spaces of her city, before introducing her little laboratory, which she carved out at home.From where She makes weird but interesting videos, lilke "Practicing Yoga with AI & Machine Learning"Good forentertainment. So I usually end up listening more than watching.I mean, while I'm welding, while I'm washing dishes

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 01:15:45 pm
content: Quote from: DiTBho on March 25, 2025, 12:15:45 pmBooks as well.Yootoob is definitely not a replacement.QuoteFalse dichotomy, of course.The correct answer is "neither" plus "use text and selective screenshots".

author: DiTBho
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 01:22:17 pm
content: Quote from: osmax_br on March 25, 2025, 12:30:27 pmMainly theDr. Dobb'sJournal.In its last years of publication, it was distributed as a PDF monthly.Unfortunately didn't survive thenew business modeland publication ceased at the end of 2014.I miss it

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 01:26:57 pm
content: Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 25, 2025, 11:47:57 amOpening a laptop or repairing a mechanical mechanism can be good uses: becausemovingpictures areat leastas good as text plus static photos. Arguably static diagrams are better than photos, because they omit irrelevant detail. However such diagrams are difficult for an amateur to produce.Plus it is possible to use the youtoob's "precise skip" mechanism toslidethrough until the relevant part is reached; can't do that with the speech.Example: older Haynes car repair manuals had excellent diagrams, but newer ones had less clear and less distinct photos.Quotes/excess information/irrelevant data/ (not information!); therefore thatshouldbe forcibly omitted.

author: osmax_br
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 01:33:01 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on March 25, 2025, 01:15:45 pmMaybe YouTube videos are not a replacement because they are put in an entertainment platform, the algorithm doesn't care about usefulness or the information, it just cares about watch-time and click through ratesbut we can consider online courses as a solid source for information, I'm not saying that it replaces books or references , but if you are just starting out , it would be easier to see someone explaining while seeing the electronic experiment in the real timeEg: I found that if I watch tutorials (or a course) about diodes and then read AoE is a lot easier than reading AoE aloneAlso , why do you call them "yoootooob", I know that it is some sort of a joke , are you referencing a way of pronouncing the word "YouTube" , searched about "yoootooob" on google , didn't find a reference

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 02:32:16 pm
content: Quote from: osmax_br on March 25, 2025, 01:33:01 pmIn this case I don't care about platform intentions or algorithms. I do care about the (lack of) content in a video.QuoteI've been watching online video courses since the late1970s. The "online" refers to via late night TV programs of Open University lectures. Those were as good or better than the excellent Pace Soldering videos now on yootoob - for the same reasons.MOOCs, Kahn Academy etc are merely following a proven recipeQuoteA couple of reasons. The mildly amusing Marconi->Macaroni, Ferranti->Fanratty, HP->HeaP (has to be very careful during job interview at HP!), etc. More importantly, to convey a degree of disdain by hinting at the way someone with limited intellect (or a typical teasing schoolkid) might very sloooowly pronounce it.

author: Andree Henkel
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2025, 02:38:55 pm
content: "learn electronics repair"slow, phlecmatic person, but a lot knowledge"W2AEW"very good at explaining fundamentalsthere is another one, even slower than the above or Mr. Carlsson, but I don´t remember name now