This channel is about Tim Hunkin's work. It includes his TV work, arcade machines, public clocks and his recent youtube 'Secret life of Components' videos.
I really loved this episode because not only is it more introspective and social than the other ones, it also comes as a subconscious critique of capitalism. This episode accurately summarises more flaws about the industrial-era work system than entire history and sociology books. Many of the machines in the previous episodes either hung around in transformed ways or became completely obsolete, and I wonder which shape the office work would turn.
I loved Secret Life of the Home, it's a shame when it's gone. Every 2 years we went to London from the Netherlands to visit the Science Museum, we will miss Secret Life
I like that you are not afraid of your own crazy ideas during prototyping and you are still willing to give them a fair chance. As far as phone addictions, people keep complaining at my job that I don't check my phone often enough, so I guess that means I'm doing good.
Me and the wife just visited Southwold and came across Tim's Arcade, we were so impressed, it made our day. Tim is a very clever man, we were blown away by how creative he is. Loved the "holiday in a chair," "The life of a seagull" and my personal favourite the "Fly machine". But every machine was brilliant, we were so impressed! So happy Tim has a RU-vid channel with lots of info, we shall be binge watching all the videos. 👍
I made a crystal set as a kid, but cheated a bit by using a diode😂 re Tim's musing about generating electricity from the wire and kite, I believe this is actually a research area, but for use in space. Maybe someone can say more about it?
Why are they closing it? I would have flown over from Australia but only found out today. Is it still there but they just won’t let people see it? Maybe I can ask them to let me in???
OMG This explains it much better than me, I was trying to explain this to my brother but he didn't understand, or maybe he just doesn't listen to me but he would understand this, brilliant.
"Uno, Due, Tre... Uno, Due, Tre... Uno, Due, Tre..." My fascination with how things work and engineering on the whole can be traced to watching this show in my infancy. The theme tune, the intense detail on the evolution of technology, and even your delightful animations (especially in this episode really speaking to my Italian heritage) brought memories of loving this episode in particular back to me. I begged my parents to VHS record the whole run, but regularly wanted to rewatch THIS one the most. No surprise I grew into a musically-inclined electrical engineer, I suppose. What an absolutely delightful trip down memory lane. Thankyou so much for helping preserve what I still consider a pivotal cog in my fascination with technology. ❤
I just love how at 6:25 the test song they use is "The Russians Are Coming", the Take 5 reggae instrumental used as the title theme. This entire show sits the back of my brain as a time capsule to some of my earliest memories being fascinated how things work, and the delightful ways in which inventions involved over the years... and subtly my love of ska, jazz and reggae too.
Okay -- very good. EXCEPT to cover the one bit that nobody explains. Look at the video at 8:08. It shows the top thread being wrapped around the bobbin. But for this to happen, the bobbin would have to be floating in mid-air. Wrapping it around the front of the bobbin is obvious but there has to be a spindle or shaft holding the bobbin in place at its back and, if the thread were to wrap around both the front and the back as illustrated, it would get caught on that shaft. The thread can't possibly wrap around the bobbin in the manner you show. Even in the human machine, the bobbin man has to pass the bobbin from one hand to the other to form the crossover with the top thread. ¶ I'm slowly starting to figure it out myself. The bobbin mechanism in my machine doesn't revolve around the bobbin; it rotates part way and - once the front of the top thread gets at least half-way around - then rotates BACK to release the thread loop behind the bobbin on the same side of the shaft where it originally caught it. Tricky but doable. Now: how it can do that performing hundreds of stitches per minute is a real mechanical marvel!
I live in the USA and was able to visit the London arcade last month. I LOVED this machine. It was so clever, well designed, challenging, and FUN! Great machine!
DOES someone KNOW WHO sings from 7:00 to 8:00 ? It's touching. And that fine ending with the vibraphone/ xylophone... Who is she which is known to everyone in ~1938 ? How times flyes. Love how Tim draw Mr. Baird! 4:20 ! Diamants and socks and Jam lost to bees...
If you haven't seen it he did make secret life of the word processor, but an updated version is a great idea! I wouldn't doubt he'll get to it at some point.
