What's the coolest YouTube channel you've found in the past month?

Contraption Collection (41.4K): guy engineering balisong/butterfly scissors. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC66lPJ8u2N1i2Bh_TMaWagg

David Bennett Piano (356K). Music theory (or selected phenomena ofi t at lesat) with examples. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz2iUx-Imr6HgDC3zAFpjOw

DarkAero, Inc (29.7K): Three brothers inventing an airplane. Carbon fiber, planned to sell as a kit so it all has to become production ready. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPUZCBNrduwUsw_MTW-sDxw

saVRee (74.4K). More engineering explained in detail. Sadly very very slow, speed up the vids :). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosExgfjj-DhMJXnQd2Y4gA

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Cheating a bit (know them for longer, but they have to be underhyped despite their size):

Subject Zero Science (193K): super well produced bleeding edge science explained. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXRbi80k0_vcIfgpOSerTg

The Thought Emporium (746K): Bio hacking and DNA editing. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ

Graham Hutton is a haskell expert and teacher, and he is uploading a full course load of haskell lectures:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCBDp7ydYTHi1dh4Gnf3VTPA

I believe these also correspond with an actual course, although I can't find a link.

I've binge-watched Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q

Well if you're just bored and want to see something neat I made a video the other day about how I added an infrared receiver to my 3D printed keyboard (with 3D printed magnetic separation switches and 3D printed stabilizers). I also go over how I wrote a bit of the (Rust) firmware for it: https://youtu.be/mX1jJfRtEPc

Eventually I'll probably share the whole kit & kaboodle with Hacker News. Have to make a proper writeup though (because people are impatient and won't sit through dozens of videos to get the whole story from the beginning haha)

Thank you for these resources. History documentaries:

- Montemayor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX7katl3DVmch4D7LSvqbVQ

- The Operations Room: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnZJt7yQw5IztVwe-Dscd-Q

They take the time to make quality videos (even if it takes week or even months) as opposed to others that rapid fire publish videos.

Some channels I'd previously recommend had quality drop. Rather than investing in a topic they got a spammy feel to them.

The Post Apocalyptic Inventor (No it's not that prepper!)

This German gentleman rescues broken stuff from the scrap yard and repairs it. On this video [0] he upgrades a basic welder to increase the duty cycle. I specifically like the way he describes his upgrades using diagrams and basic explanations. Link to his channel at [1].

[0] Welder Video https://odysee.com/@ThePostApocalypticInventor:e/welder-expe... --or-- https://youtu.be/yzOr1bnArVI

[1] Channel https://odysee.com/@ThePostApocalypticInventor:e --or-- https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor/feature...

Tasting History is great, amiable guy who posts videos of cooking ancient and very old recipes, and talks about the history of each.

Ratarossa: this guy is rescuing and maintaining Ferrari cars in his tiny home garage:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCA0ZY1x5r2lyKQfoUYvHvqQ

Atomic Frontier: superbly made science videos, I think I've learnt something in every video (62k): https://www.youtube.com/c/atomicfrontieronline

Xyla Foxlin: creative, very enthusiastic crafter, canoe building was fabulous (67k): https://www.youtube.com/c/xylafoxlin

The Tim Traveller: quirkly little places, fabulous humour (190k): https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTimTraveller

A lot of what I see on youtube with a small kid isn't necessarily about the "good" stuff I've found, but highlights formats that would vastly benefit from better production.

There's a LOT of "play with X, do activity Y, do this cool thing Z" videos that my kiddo loves to watch while also playing, but could be taken to the next level EASILY.

The fact that PBS and mainstream kids networks don't do things like this, or a more professional production network, is strange to me.

Likely professional production is poison pilled by preassumptions of previous programming paradigms, or the sponsorship fundamentally ruins it.

This guy building computers on breadboards: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater

FunctionalTV - Alexy Khrabrov's "By The Bay" programming tech talks, emphasis on functional and Scala.

https://youtube.com/user/FunctionalTV

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Another neat (and currently obscure) one is CodeSync; the subject is Elixir and the Erlang BEAM.

https://youtube.com/c/CodeSync

If you understand Chinese, you may enjoy this stand-up comedy group at the Bay Area: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqG1oe7CjCghQdZDldNKT0A/fea...

Website: https://ggtkx.org

I myself sometimes participate their weekly open mic sessions.

Heron’s Bonsai: https://youtube.com/c/HeronsBonsaiUK

Jamie Mantzel is a guy living on an island off the grid in Central America. He’s a little kooky, but his videos are super interesting. He has lots of videos of his progress building solar powered boats and houses.

https://youtube.com/user/JMEMantzel

If you dream of a live of not coding or have children interessted in excavating: Andrew Camarata, who built his own container castle and has a great work attitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEXZMID3_8

Tim Hunkin started showing his "the secret life of components" : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGrpLw1W3P1_BC4J-Hpytww

Wesley Kagan - 83.5k subs - Car channel, but leaning heavy to building / prototyping

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy-IytMjnUY6_bAxD7yuZ-w

Making music with floppy drives, hard drives and flatbed scanners.

https://youtube.com/c/Pawe%C5%82Zadro%C5%BCniak

Life Uncontained https://youtube.com/channel/UC-l69It3hxAY3tkBH_utLNQ

Vagrant Holiday: https://www.youtube.com/c/VagrantHoliday

There is an app called Neverthink which has a section called random cool videos. I think you can find a lot of cool new channels via it.

I've really been enjoying James Hoffman https://youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ

Aamon Animations - https://youtube.com/channel/UCo4au6lRX4-_gIczBneEZWA (He's doing some freaky lovecrafty renditions of people like Jordan Peterson)

The guy hacking Teslas on YouTube is worthy, even if I didn't find it within the last month.

https://www.youtube.com/user/t05742hh/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/PPPeter1/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/pervognsen/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj_2_t-iugOjrhv4XUwVFYg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWbqlDAyJh2n8DN5X6NZyg/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/c/MindvalleyTalks/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYzVCmNxrshH4_bPO_-Y-A/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/user/videoinfluencers/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKgpamMlm872zkGDcBJHYDg/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/c/BeInspiredChannel/videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vfts4VzfNiI1BsIK5u7...

https://www.youtube.com/c/cnethowto/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/SuccessinTech/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/fobia405/videos