Ben Krasnow (@BenKrasnow) spoke with us about prototyping, Patreon, and staying current. And a whole bunch of stuff.

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Ben's YouTube channel is Applied Science. His recent videos have been shot with the high speed Chronos camera (whose creator David Kronstein was on The Amp Hour #325).

Ben has a Patreon page which funds randomness. (Embedded also has a Patreon page, for randomness and mics.)

Ben was previously on the show: 119: Do Your Neighbors Have Any Idea?

For BLE prototyping, Ben mentioned the OSH Chip by Philip Freidin (146: The Loyal Opposition) and using Processing for Android to make quick-n-dirty test applications.

We mentioned the Wazer desktop waterjet.

Chris brought up this video describing impedance with a mechanical model.

One of Ben's favorite videos that he did was the first one with an electron microscope, way back in 2011: DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview.

Ben gets a lot of his news from Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/

Ben's Twitter criteria was that they didn't post updates often too often for his one-a-day check and that they focus on tech:

• @bunniestudios
• @vk2zay
• @elonmusk (for updates on my car's firmware)
• @LongHairNasaGuy
• @szczys
• @samykamkar
• @PaulStoffregen
• @mikelectricstuf
• @johndmcmaster
• @michaelossmann
• @macegr
• @Chris_Gammell
• @EMSL
• @mightyohm

And some of his favorite YouTube channels (Ben said it was very difficult to distill as there are many great choices):

• mikeselectricstuff
• tesla500
• Matthias Wandel
• NightHawkInLight
• The Signal Path
• Techmoan
• Cody's Lab
• This Old Tony
• Clickspring
• Nick Moore
• Gross Science
• Haas Automation
• Hackaday
• Reactions
• I Build It
• Alex Dainis
• bigclivedotcom

We also mentioned architect Frank Howarth of the urbanTrash channel.