Thursday, September 03, 2026

A long list of YouTube blogs you might find interesting

https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics  -- if you want to learn about optics


https://www.youtube.com/@EEVblog  -- an opinionated Australian with one of the oldest EE focused channels


https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousMarc  -- deep technical/repair videos


https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkingandTinkering  -- alas, Robert Murray-Smith is no longer with us, he had many interesting things to say


https://www.youtube.com/@ThisOldTony  --  Machining videos with a sense of humor


https://www.youtube.com/@smartereveryday  -- an engineer who used to field test missiles learns new things all the time


https://www.youtube.com/@Blondihacks  -- Canadian machinist who teaches along the way doing projects


https://www.youtube.com/@TheAmpHour  -- an audio blog about electronics design


https://www.youtube.com/@Computerphile  -- various topics related to computers with staff mostly from the University of Nottingham


https://www.youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550 -- John Plant teaches by showing, how to build the most basic technology ever, he started with a rock and a stick, and worked his way up from there.  Turn on subtitles, he doesn't talk, he annotates on screen, it's wonderfully quiet


https://www.youtube.com/@OCPTAP -- if you're a time nut, this is the channel for you, it's about very, very precise timing


https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed -- crazy and almost safe chemistry experiments


https://www.youtube.com/@urituchmanpigeon  -- an eclectic approach to building things


https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyJones-Engineer  -- an *actual engineer* who picks apart various things gone wrong with various current events.


https://www.youtube.com/@mrpete222  -- Mr Pete, retired shop teacher with an attitude, and a lot of things to show you how to do.


https://www.youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel  -- Grady, another actual engineer, shows how infrastructure works, with practical demonstrations built in his garage, and some on-site things as well


https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage  -- Dave Plummer, the guy who wrote task manager, and the zip file handler for Windows, talks about various things computer related


https://www.youtube.com/@AnastasiInTech  -- A chip designer talks about the latest trends in chip fabrication


https://www.youtube.com/@JeffGeerling  -- Things related to radio broadcasting, raspberry pi, mini-racks, gps timing, etc. His dad is a broadcast engineer.


https://www.youtube.com/@RealEngineering  -- What it says on the time, breakdowns of how things actually work


https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping  -- Sal Mercogliano, an actual mariner and Professor, discusses current events in shipping on the high seas.


https://www.youtube.com/@MentourNow  -- A pilot discusses current aviation events


https://www.youtube.com/@NDC  -- NDC Conferences - Interesting programming talks


https://www.youtube.com/@ZackFreedman  -- Wild and crazy, the inventor of GridFinity


https://www.youtube.com/@voiceofthunder9620 -- An actual scientist, a chemist, who really, *really* despises Elon Musk, and sometimes plays with NaK, a liquid metal at room temperature. He *might* be the one who gives us a work-around for global warming


https://www.youtube.com/@NoEngineerHere -- Interesting projects, but NOT an engineer


https://www.youtube.com/@StefanGotteswinter -- a proper German doing machining projects


https://www.youtube.com/@dgelbart - Dan invented the first practical stepper, which gets used in the manufacturing of every chip ever. You really should watch his "how to make things" tutorial


https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown --  Grant Sanderson talks about Math, beautifully illustrated and story-told


https://www.youtube.com/@Kathy_Loves_Physics -- The real history of how physics got to where it is


https://www.youtube.com/@oxtoolco -- Recently retired from Berkeley's University machine shop, lots of practical tips related to machining very precisely


https://www.youtube.com/@TITANSofCNC  -- CNC manufacturing, they offer free education in the trade


https://www.youtube.com/@Clough42 -- Machining and CNC related projects


https://www.youtube.com/@arduinoversusevil2025  -- Arduino vs Evil, an opinionated Canadian who swears a bit does various things related to machining, with a lot of tear downs of tools.


https://www.youtube.com/@WardCarroll -- Former Navy Aviator talks about current events, sometimes with Sal from What's up with Shipping (see above)


https://www.youtube.com/@tested -- Adam Savage, of Mythbusters does various builds


https://www.youtube.com/@w2aew -- Radio theory and projects


https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience  -- Some of the coolest science projects, including things like spin coating, supercritical CO2, etc.


https://www.youtube.com/@RexKrueger -- Traditional Woodworking


https://www.youtube.com/@DylanBeattie  -- Dylan is great at breaking down things that you think are simple... like "Plain Text" formatting


https://www.youtube.com/@ShakeTheFuture -- Melting metal in a microwave, so you can do home casting


https://www.youtube.com/@joepie221 -- A machinist in Austin Texas, with a lot to teach


https://www.youtube.com/@KevlinHenney -- Talks about programming


https://www.youtube.com/@GOTO-  -- GOTO Conferences, programming talks


https://www.youtube.com/@essentialcraftsman -- Practical construction and blacksmithing


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