Thursday, 22 February 2024
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Sunday, 4 February 2024
When live recordings are over engineered
If you look back at old TV shows from the 60’s and 70’s that had “live” musical performances, the musicians were often lip synching to a recorded track. By the 80’s and 90’s, this was considered tacky and fake.
It looks however, like we’re getting back to that sort of thing with tools like auto tune and pitch correction being used in live performances.
This video analyses a classic song recently recorded love and looks at the use of these tools, I hope you find it interesting.
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Squirrel Parkour
I’m sure a lot of you are already fans of Mark Rober. His Squirrel Ninja Warrior Course is legendary. This video comes as a recommendation from Kenna:
Monday, 15 January 2024
Blowing out a fire with sound
This is a great YouTube channel. He is very good at making abstract concepts clear and understandable. He’s also good at creating experiments to test ideas using simple tools and equipment. Always a worthwhile watch:
Sunday, 24 December 2023
Iconic Design: Bic Pen
I bet we all have one or two of these. Learn the story of this perfectly designed product. (I question his argument that the pen caused an...

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Since I started along this road as a tech teacher, I have always had this awkward feeling as though I were some sort of impostor. There are ...
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Two companies make the technology that makes all the fastest microchips possible:
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I bet we all have one or two of these. Learn the story of this perfectly designed product. (I question his argument that the pen caused an...