Tinkering with Terrius

Well I haven't posted on here in a very long time, but I have a new mail goodies episode uploaded!

Today we are doing something different, rather than an electronics video I thought I would share my method for making sourdough starter! My method for making sourdough starter requires the use of a kitchen scale be it Analog or digital, baker’s choice. We use the scale in order to maintain the starter at a 100% hydration level, which simply means the amount of water and flour is equal. Before beginning my starter I like to measure out a week or two worth of flour, this flour is a mixture of 50% unbleached white, 25% whole wheat, and 25% whole rye. I generally like to mix up about 800 grams worth, or 28ish ounces. I find that adding the whole wheat and rye flours strengthens the starter and provides it with additional nutrients not readily available in the white flour. Generally after this initial batch of flour runs out I will remove the rye and switch to a 50% white 50% whole wheat mixture. I find that this combination of flours works best for me; however you can use basically ...

Hello everyone, On today's episode of Tinkering with Terrius we take another look at the 555 Timer, this time in monostable operation. I hope you find it interesting or helpful!

Hello everyone! Episode 3 of Terrius Talks Tech went up this morning. I am hoping to start posting a new T₃ video at least every other Tuesday as I find them very fun to make (though perhaps a bit more difficult)! For today's episode I decided to see if I could make some graphs and a spreadsheet to help me get a better view of the AMD Ryzen Ecosystem as a whole. Thus I decided to aggregate 10 different sites worth of Ryzen (and Intel) benchmarks to find out what the Mean performance is of the platform. The most annoying part of looking at benchmarks for me is the variance to what settings people use. Therefore I figured by aggregating the data it would balance out the extremes of setting choices that bench markers may have chosen. The synthetic benchmark aggregation was super easy and took almost no time at all. The real hard part was trying to find games that a majority of reviewers reported scores for, in the end I settled on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Rise of the Tomb Raider, G...

Hello everyone, It was a hectic week this week and due to some unfortunate events I wasn't able to continue my 555 timer video series. I decided that I would use some previously recorded Kit build footage and make a minisode rather than not post anything at all. This week's episode is another aliexpress kit build, it is one of the "melody voice" kits that is supposed to detect sound and light the LEDs based on volume. It has a very hard time detecting voice but works well for vibrations like tapping on the table or blowing air across the microphone. Also for this episode, rather than having music play during the fast-forward of the soldering, I decided to tell a tale from my time working in computer sales! For anyone that is interested I've also started a new Facebook page for Tinkering With Terrius  so if you want to see random posts/videos about my progress on episodes and projects take a look!

Hello Everyone, I was given ten 555 timers a while back and finally decided that I should start to play around with them. I had never used one before so I decided to make an episode about them. In today's episode we take a look at the TI NE555P timer chip, we also use it in A-stable operation to blink a couple of LEDs! I hope you will enjoy it! https://youtu.be/h2UPKD-Yohg