Don't miss his recent series "The Secret Life of Components" on YouTube giving advice for makers on what components work well for DIY based on his lifetime of building stuff. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyANYB0Xxb9OSp47p...
Tim also operates the Novelty Automation arcade in London. When I return to the UK, it's at the top of my list of things to see. His machines have his amazing sense of satire
Tim’s partner in mischief on this show was Rex Garrod (RIP), and that man was an absolutely incredible inventor, maker, tinkerer, and just all round nice fellow.
Creator of Brum, self-righting battlebots, and much more. Absolutely an inspiration to me as a teen.
Alzheimer's sucks.
I watched a bunch of these on YouTube. Tim has added commentary at the end of each one. They’re pretty fun even if some of the devices are kinda obsolete (fax machines, vcrs ...)
But I appreciate the explanations and demos which are fun.
Secret love of machines YouTube playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29s3...
Good old Tim Hunkin. As a kid, I used to look forward to his Rudiments of Wisdom comic strip, every Sunday in The Observer
https://www.timhunkin.com/40_rudiments_book.htm
There's a nice essay of his on that site too: Is it Art?
Tim Hunkin is up there with Sheldon Brown.
Tim's book "Almost Everything there is to Know" had a profound impact on me as a child. I was lucky enough to see him give a talk once in Cambridge. He's as disarmingly curious and chaotic as you might expect. A true hero of the mine.
These are great and Tim Hunkin is great too! I fondly remember watching these when they first aired on TV in the UK when I was a kid - and they're on YouTube and still great!
His yt channel is also good, lots of really interesting maker stuff.
Love Tim, Been watching him for years
Big fan here. I'd say that if you are curious about any of the subjects his show covered, you'd be well served to watch it.
I love the website. Sometimes simple is enough.
Let me try to give you a sense of Tim’s ability to captivate people’s interest in the mundane all around us and inspire people to want to know ‘how’ even more than you thought was possible. I grew up in an engineering household in the 70s/80s. Dad was an ME that worked on some pretty revolutionary stuff (VTOL aircraft) and he brought home a computer in 1983. I was immersed in engineering 24/7, knew I wanted to be a programmer by 13 and was deeply interesting in tearing things apart to see how they worked. Then in my freshman year in college I stumbled on the secret life of machines bbc series and it absolutely blew me away. Tim had a way of deconstructing the everyday things around us (fax machines, telephony, washing machines, etc). I thought I had an already abnormal passion to learn how things worked and Tim showed me another universe. His deadpan, matter of fact, understated and expert ways of presenting things inspired me in ways that made me what I am today. I’ve been fortunate to work with world class engineers at FAANGs for the last 15 years and I can easily say that Tim is _the_ engineer’s engineer. Thank you Tim.