Adam Neely - skilled musician who takes pleasure in explaining lots of obscure musical theory and music history in very entertaining ways
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James Bruton - king of the nerds, builds robots with a lot of 3d printing, Arduinos and open source control software
youtube.com/c/jamesbruton
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Nik Rijavec - singlehandedly building a beautiful big log cabin in Slovenia
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Tim Hunkin - one of the greats, especially his recent series "Secret Life of Components", a comprehensive& entertaining download of just about everything he's learned as a DIY inventor/engineer/workshop dude over many decades
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This Old Tony - he documents everything about how to create high precision machining in a home workshop standards. good weird sense of humour and unique video production style
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(I woulda called this list Men Explain Things To Me but that was already taken)
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oh of course I should add Acorn to Arabella. these dudes are building a wooden boat completely from scratch, including milling the lumber
another extremely valuable archive of traditional knowledge
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new discovery today, Sawyer Design: sweet stylish nerd does beautiful woodworking & beautiful videomaking
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another sweetheart, Wesley Kagan reverse-engineers Formula One automative tech and makes open source modules for everyone to learn from
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AvE: this one is interesting partly because he teaches you about how modern products are manufactured, but also because he's the politically incorrect uncle from the countryside who wants to teach you how to live right
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Chris Staeker explains analog computers & geometric calculating devices etc. extremely dry humour too
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oh my gosh gorgeous documentary series from the 80s about traditional Irish craft skills like saddle making & pottery & farming 😍
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The Post Apocalyptic Inventor teaches you how to fix things while gently reminding you about the impending collapse of modern society
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Benn Jordan makes fascinating videos about sound (like what does the world sound like to a bat?) and about sound/music production
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Axel from amazingDIYprojects is a mad scientist but Swedish, so always totally calm while explaining his completely unique flying machines and such
I've learned so much about aerodynamics from watching his videos
youtube.com/user/amazingdi
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rctestflight is funny & relaxed, making model boats & planes while causally breaking new ground with genuinely impressive inventions (infinite range autonomous solar powered tug boat for example)
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here's another hobbyist pushing the frontiers of aeronautics & robotics. Think Flight makes long range autonomous vehicles and he's working towards a commercially viable electric passenger plane
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Marty Y - the ideal Kiwi bloke, hillbilly engineer, can fix anything with anything. off grid living, micro hydro, repairing old tractor & digger engines, etc
lots of longform content where he takes you thru his troubleshooting & repair process
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skyentific: another super nice one, such a happy brilliant dude excited to share his open source cheap 3d printed DIY robotics
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Martijn Doolaard: exceptional cinematography, slow, immersive, beautiful documentation of his solo project to make a home from two old stone cabins in the Italian Alps
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Way Out West - Workshop Stuff, DIY projects from a low tech farm in Ireland. eg they've built a small railway for moving materials thru their property
pleasingly janky, while constantly producing ingenius new tools & machines
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