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CCD: The heart of a digital camera (how a charge-coupled device works)

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...

From: engineerguy

Views: 248874

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Hard drive teardown

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...

From: engineerguy

Views: 678529

8364 ratings

Fiber optic cables: How they work

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...

From: engineerguy

Views: 774835

8423 ratings

LCD Monitor Teardown

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....

From: engineerguy

Views: 987530

13946 ratings

How smoke detectors work

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...

From: engineerguy

Views: 259828

2452 ratings

Why the other line is likely to move faster

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...

From: engineerguy

Views: 770643

5074 ratings

How the first transistor worked

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...

From: engineerguy

Views: 195221

1653 ratings

How a quartz watch works

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...

From: engineerguy

Views: 407527

4232 ratings