Bill takes apart a digital camera and explains how its captures images using a CCD (charge coupled device). He also shares how a single CCD is used with a co...
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28 Jun 16:27
CCD: The heart of a digital camera (how a charge-coupled device works)
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28 Jun 16:17
Hard drive teardown
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Bill opens up a computer hard drive to show how it is engineered. He describes how the "head" reads the magnetic information on the disk; reveals how a voice...
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28 Jun 16:12
Fiber optic cables: How they work
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Bill uses a bucket of propylene glycol to show how a fiber optic cable works and how engineers send signal across oceans. More info at http://www.engineerguy...
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28 Jun 16:07
LCD Monitor Teardown
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Bill takes apart an LCD monitor and shows how it works. He explains how it uses liquid crystals, thin film transistors and polarizers to display information....
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28 Jun 15:58
How smoke detectors work
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Bill takes apart a smoke detector and shows how it uses a radioactive source to generate a tiny current which is disrupted when smoke flows through the senso...
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28 Jun 15:57
Why the other line is likely to move faster
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Bill reveals how "queueing theory" - developed by engineers to route phone calls - can be used to find the most efficient arrangement of cashiers and check o...
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28 Jun 15:54
How the first transistor worked
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Bill uses a replica of the point contact transistor built by Walter Brattain and John Bardeen at Bell Labs. On December 23, 1947 they used this device to amp...
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28 Jun 15:54
How a quartz watch works
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The amazing everyday wristwatch: We never think about it, but only because engineers have made it so reliable and durable that we don't need to. At its heart...
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