Comments by "" (@MonkeyJedi99) on "Passive infrared motion sensors: a two-bit camera powered by crystals" video.

  1. When I was a kid, PBS only had "underwriters" whose names and maybe a single sentence about what they did was read by an off-screen voice in a fairly inflection-free voice. Much like National Public Radio still does.
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  2. the disco ball loop pun was 10/10
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  3. When I worked as an RMA tech for an electronics company, we went through a lot of cand of spray duster, and never for dusting. Turn the can upside down and you get the liquid to spray out. The liquid rapidly evaporates, making the target IC cold, and may help detect thermal faults.
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  4. Earlier today, the mechanic I watched did something similar. "I want to see how this actuator is broken inside but it's plastic welded so I can't open it up." Then he jump-cut to him using an angle grinder to cut it open.
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  5.  @rossperk  I still occasionally sing the "12" song.
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  6.  @MrJJandJim  Rainman Ray Repairs
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  7.  @josephlarrybradley508  Sadly, I know more about how a Fett functions than how a FET functions.
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  8.  @tag180rotax  Mythbusters did something quite similar.
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  9. I saw a movie where they "movie hacked" into the building's climate controls and made the target office as hot as the infiltration person's body temperature. edit: jonathankleinow2073 posted the scene I was thinking of.
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