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Cup Phonograph Kit Assembly

A good proportion of viewers seemed to enjoy my Gakken Wax Cylinder kit video despite the less than impressive outcome...so here's the sequel. 

This take on Edison's phonograph records onto dis...

Whatever happened to pocket TVs?

Have you ever wondered why handheld TVs disappeared from the stores when the analog signals were switched off and why manufacturers like Sony  and Casio didn't instead switch to making handheld d...

The Sabamobil

Here's a video about a forgotten audio format from the 1960s, the Sabamobil from SABA. In this video I'll explain where it fits in with the history of tape players, you get to see it in action, hear t...

Smart Home WiFi Plug (socket)

In this video I set-up a voice controlled smart plug...and while this is something that has been possible for a while now, I wanted to show that it's become simple enough for anyone to do it. 

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A Video Double Bill

Today we have a Main Feature with a supporting Short.

The main feature has turned out to be of my personal favourites from recent weeks - its all about Video 8 - I hope you enjoy it too. 

Custom Picture Disc

I wasn’t planning on putting anything else out before the weekend but this one was too simple a subject to warrant a longer video - so consider it a bit of an extra. 

I'll be making this one ...

Back to basics with a Helmet Camera review.

I get a lot of requests asking me to demonstrate new helmet, action and dash cams, and now that the weather here is intermittently half-decent, I thought I should try a couple of models out. 

&...

1986 in your pocket

Here’s a fun little video - I wonder if anyone else remembers seeing this device in the stores in 1986. 

A three-in-one personal media player that shows  watching video,  listening ...

The Gakken Worldeye - UPDATE v2.0

This is something that I hadn’t seen reviewed before, so it seemed like a good idea to import one and find out for myself what it really did. In the end it didn’t turn out to be a worthwhile  ...

A classic cassette deck

I hope you enjoy this video about the Sony TC-D5 cassette deck. A tape recorder that was the go-to high-end portable for the best part of two decades. 

Over the next few weeks I'll be working f...

On Wax/Off Wax - Building a Recorder Kit (early access)

In this video I assemble a Japanese educational kit that should be able to record on, and play recordings off, a wax cylinder.

If you want to see some of the other Gakken kits - their website is her...

Behind the scenes…of a video that doesn’t exist. (Exclusive)

I promised to make a behind the scenes feature documenting every step of my process of making a video. With this in mind I started shooting some early BTS footage for a future video, but as things tur...

Atari Video Music - Early access

I’ve had this one on my to-do shelf for a couple of years, but I’ve finally decided it's time to make a video about it. 

A bit of background info......I make a point of avoiding watching vi...

Polaroid Snap Touch Review & Outro changes

I’ve been focusing on retro tech for a while, so it seemed like it was time to mix things up with a camera review. This video looks a bit different to some of the more recent ones I’ve done as itâ...

Audio Craft Cassette Cartridge

In this video I get the opportunity to do one of my favourite things, showing off an unusual object that most people won’t have seen before.

If you decide to stay for the outro you may recognise t...

Tonight we’re going to blather like it’s 1985

Here’s an extra Patrons Only video in which I comment/reminisce while a Japanese Video Product Catalogue from  1985 is playing in the background. 

If that sounds like a bad idea, it prob...

Tape-to-Tape Walkman ('Repair' video)

Here's a nice simple video to make your mid-week that little bit brighter. 

Repair videos are satisfying to make (sometimes) - however a lot of the work takes place off-screen, in the editing. ...

Shaking things up

For a good few years now I’ve been trying to source a Buttkicker wireless kit at a sensible price, available to the UK. I’m happy to say that I finally managed to get hold of one on ebay so I’ve...

Light Relief

All the late nights, early mornings and all day editing sessions I spent getting the MiniDisc video finished finally took their toll and laid me up ill for a few days. 

However, I’m now back ...

Finally… MiniDisc.

There’s a good reason why this video took me a few years to make…MiniDisc is a monster.  I’ve ended up producing  a 45 minute video that still only touches on a tiny part of the story....

Sony MP-CL1 (early access to an out-of-date review)

Here’s a product that I probably should have reviewed in 2016…but I was busy making videos about other stuff. 

As I was uploading, I realised that it is the perfect thing to annoy the peopl...

Seeburg 1000 - Pt 2

As promised (threatened?) on Sunday - here’s part 2 of the Seeburg BGM video. 

In this video I show the best way to play Seeburg records without the official machine. The experience is a comp...

Seeburg BMS1 - Background Music System

I’d normally leave a bit more of a gap between retro-tech videos than this, but I’ve been tripping over this thing on the floor of my ‘studio’ for weeks, so to create a bit of much needed spac...

Results of last week's experiment....

A quick update on last week’s experiment. 

You may remember that I wanted to see if a shorter video (about an MP3 badge) combined with a formulaic thumbnail picture would generate more views ...

MP3 Button Badge & an Experiment

You may have seen me mention that last week’s video about VHD was very well received by subscribers but didn’t seem to attract many views from anyone else. One factor I suspect was the 30 mins len...

RetroTech: VHD - The 3rd Disc

Every few weeks I like to pull out all the stops and put out a more complicated video. These kind of projects take me so long to research, shoot and edit that the next couple of videos afterwards need...

1980s to the max

I'm working on a longer video this week - it's probably going to take three days of solid editing. In the meantime here's a tiny part of it. It's video captured from the device that I'll be featuring....

Mobius 2 Review

This one is due out on Friday - I've still got a couple of things to tidy up before release (including the video samples). 

Hope you enjoy it.

Outro Text - are you missing?

I've been comparing my my list of $5 patrons with the scrolling video outro list and I've discovered a few people who's names were missing despite having been patrons for a couple of months.  

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Patreon Only - Behind the Scenes.

My next proper video is due out later this week, in the meantime here’s a behind the scenes segment  exclusively for patrons.