Videos: Two (more) of them
Added 2024-03-08 20:02:03 +0000 UTCLittle Guys: Ep 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEz3E0k9F8
Little Guys: Ep 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEHKo8M_FMg
Bonus "Purr Edit" of ep5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1gfl2HS1qA
I am a little concerned about posting too many of these but, you know, I shot em, so I should post em. I still don't know what schedule I'm going to release them with but I figure this is the next couple months worth of "little" videos. I'm planning on going in and shooting another "big" video this coming week.
Also these don't exactly have the tone I intended when I set out with this series because both of them kind of went off the rails, but that's what a lack of script leads to, I suppose.
Hope you enjoy, and please remember that any comments you leave on YT will be lost when I reupload for public release.
Comments
Oh yes, passive cooling goes *way* back, basically to the earliest days when PCs started needing active cooling at all. There are literally thousands of fanless PCs going back decades that all use basically the same principles, the only thing that really differs is the presence of heat pipes or lack thereof. The thing that makes the Niveus remarkable is just that they sold it to more or less regular consumers. To the best of my knowledge that's completely unprecedented; for some reason, despite passive PCs being an ancient product, nobody will sell them to normal people, only businesses.
Cathode Ray Dude
2024-05-07 23:40:11 +0000 UTCI know I'm a bit late to the party, but the passive cooling on the NCR machine reminds me an awful lot of the Niveus machines... is that kind of passively cooled Little Guy a common thing in industrial applications or something? I know Niveus was targeting an entirely different market, it just seems weird how you've now covered at least 3 separate devices with that concept. Heck, the NCR machine even uses heat pipes to move heat from the CPU to the aluminum casing (although maybe not quite as small-startup-engineered as the Niveus)!
Aaronjamt
2024-05-07 21:21:09 +0000 UTCThank you so much, I'm actually having a rough day due to health issues and this made me feel a lot better. I certainly am glad I started this series, and I'm thrilled that you're enjoying it.
Cathode Ray Dude
2024-04-23 00:45:41 +0000 UTCI missed these when you posted them! I have to say, and I mean this sincerely, that was one of the best videos I've ever seen. It was well shot. I saw everything I needed to see. You did what I would have done. Take shit apart and experiment. When you pulled out the graphics card I was like "oh my God is he gonna do it please do it please do it" and you did it. And then when it worked I cheered with you. This is the video that makes people have parasocial relationships. Me and my friends used to do this shit all the time and I felt connected. I felt like we were friends fucking around. Look, this should NOT be what you do and you shouldn't pivot the channel, but these lower effort, take shit apart and go off half cocked while making lame jokes and googling stuff, man... It's like having nerd friends again. When you run out of little guys, keep this type of thing going with the next thing that piques your interest. You can't lose that passion and curiosity. It was excellent man. Excellent. Glad I paid you to do it. Haha It's a long comment nobody will care about, so I'm dumping it here, and I'll just throw one on the YouTube video for algorithm purposes.
Funkmon
2024-04-23 00:44:21 +0000 UTCOne note about GPIO vs DIO: my understanding is that GPIO means the pins can do more than just digital. The RPI pins can do uart, spi, i2c, and PWM (at least I think they can do all of them), as well as maybe analog. DIO would just be reading or writing a single bit. (It's possible to bit bang a protocol or PWM, but the GPIO on the RPI has dedicated hardware).
Loading_M_
2024-03-13 19:22:40 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying the crap out of this series. Each one is like a little adventure.
The Wooniest Woona
2024-03-11 18:55:34 +0000 UTC
