Music Used: Church of 8 Wheels - Otis McDonald (0:01, 12:09) Take it Slow - SefChol (2:33) Weekend in Tattoine - Unicorn Heads (6:06) Tiptoe out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (9:25)
I Wrote Minecraft for a CalculatorThe Science Elf2023-08-28 | Ever since high school, I've wished I could play Minecraft on my calculator. Now it's time to make that dream a reality.
Music Used: Church of 8 Wheels - Otis McDonald (0:01, 12:09) Take it Slow - SefChol (2:33) Weekend in Tattoine - Unicorn Heads (6:06) Tiptoe out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (9:25)
NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT.I Made an Internet Time MachineThe Science Elf2022-04-29 | I put together a little device that lets me take my retro computers onto the retro internet.
Music Used: Shawl Paul - Norma Rockwell (0:01) Church of 8 Wheels - Otis McDonald (5:49) Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (8:23) Some Other Place - South London HiFi (11:08)
Music Used: Rank and File - Silent Partner (0:00) No Good Right - Freedom Trail Studio (1:54) Shawl Paul - Norma Rockwell (5:01) Church of 8 Wheels - Otis McDonald(10:51)
#ShortsRaytracing on a Graphing Calculator (again)The Science Elf2022-02-10 | A long time ago, I wrote a really slow ray tracing program for a TI-84 calculator. I figured it's about time for an upgrade.
Music Used: Cream of the Earth - Romeo Knight (0:00, 11:03) Take it Slow - SefChol (2:58) Sunday Plans - Silent Partner (5:31) Sunshine Samba - Chris Haugen (8:33)
Clips in Order of Appearance: Computer Color is Broken - youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw (8:14) Youtube Animated Subscribe button - youtube.com/watch?v=P98ZC9viI8Y (12:58) Minecraft RTX - RTX On/Off Gameplay - youtube.com/watch?v=AdTxrggo8e8 (13:20)Does Anyone Remember Animusic?The Science Elf2022-01-17 | Twenty years ago, a "computer animation video album" named Animusic was released. Twenty years later, I made a video about it.
(Background) Music Used: Stick Figures - Animusic 1 (0:00) Pipe Dream 2 - Animusic 2 (7:23) Glarpedge - The Sound of 12 [Demo] (11:56) Resonant Chamber - Animusic 2 (14:04) Harmonic Voltage - Animusic 1 (19:02)
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.The Internet Runs on MagicThe Science Elf2020-07-19 | Creating a universal global network is no easy feat. Today we take a look at the modular design that allows the internet to work with nearly every device imaginable.
Music Used: Cream of the Earth - Romeo Knight (0:21) Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (5:36) Some Other Place - South London HiFi (11:37)
Clips in Order of Appearance: The Kids' Guide to the Internet - youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c (1:02) Internet Explorer 1.0 Commercial - youtube.com/watch?v=TLfZ5Sb1EGw (1:53) Ethernet Office System for the Future - youtube.com/watch?v=pJoH6XuUsoY (12:53)A Brief History of Computer VirusesThe Science Elf2019-09-01 | For nearly 50 years, computers have been getting infected with worms and viruses, programs designed to spread from machine to machine. In this video, we take a look at how these digital diseases got their start, alongside more unique examples of self-replicating software.
Music Used: Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (0:00) Future Proof - South London HiFi (2:52) Weekend in Tattoine - Unicorn Heads (6:25) Some Other Place - South London HiFi (9:46)
Demos tested (in order of appearance): Where Have all the Pixels Gone? - cmucc (3:41, 10:18) EigenVectrex - cmucc (4:35, 5:34) Lineart - MetalVotze (4:44) Raiding Party - Rift (6:29, 10:10)Why Do Calculators have a Headphone Jack?The Science Elf2019-06-30 | On nearly every Texas Instruments graphing calculator, there's a small "headphone" jack along the top. While the port wasn't originally designed for audio, there are some pretty interesting external hardware hacks that can be done through this port.
Music Used: Late - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena (0:00) No Good Right - Freedom Trail Studio (3:00) Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (4:09) Birds - Silent Partner (7:57) I've Been Delayed -TAS 1000 (8:50)
Clips in Order of Appearance: TI-Robot test - youtube.com/watch?v=KsX-GBiW9dY (4:09) TI calc wireless - youtube.com/watch?v=lbqcD5elNM4 (7:22) Graphing Calc Hacked with Touch Screen - youtube.com/watch?v=pyWIJFLbJZ0 (7:30) Gossamer 1.0: Web Browsing on your Calculator - youtube.com/watch?v=A9PCf2B7lzA (7:45)Sonys Handheld PC from 2006The Science Elf2019-05-24 | 15 years ago, it was an open question as to whether PCs would get smaller, or if smartphones would get smarter. Sony jumped in on the UMPC craze with the Vaio UX line, a family of PCs you could hold in your hand.
Music Used: Church of 8 Wheels - Otis McDonald (0:00)
Software tested (in order of appearance): Bricks of Egypt - ArcadeLab (8:04) HamsterBall - Raptisoft (8:09) The Labyrinth Plus! - NonStop Entertainment (8:13) Portal - Valve (8:25) fr-025: the.popular.demo - farbrausch (9:01) Plants vs Zombies - PopCap Games (11:18)How Club Penguin Music was Composed on an Answering MachineThe Science Elf2019-04-20 | What do Club Penguin, a thrifted answering machine, and a rock band all have in common? Find out in possibly the strangest video I've ever researched.
The Science Elf wishes to not be held responsible for the factually questionable content of this video.The Microsoft MonopolyThe Science Elf2019-03-09 | In the 90s, Microsoft was the undeniable ruler of PC industry, but all it took was one pesky web browser to bring it all crashing down. This is the story of how that didn't happen.
Music Used: Late - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena (0:00) No Good Right - Freedom Trail Studio (2:06) Weekend in Tattoine - Unicorn Heads (5:21, 10:57) Tiptoe out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (8:14) Birds - Silent Partner (16:24)
Music Used: Leoforos Alexandras - Dan Bodan (0:00) No Good Right - Freedom Trail Studio (0:51, 13:04) Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (6:34) Late - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena (8:21) Weekend in Tattoine - Unicorn Heads (10:04)OS Upgrades on the Gateway ProfileThe Science Elf2018-12-15 | Last time, we looked at the Gateway Profile 5.5, an "ugly" yet interesting All-In-One computer. Now, we're trying out a few different operating systems to see which ones the Profile can run.
Music Used: Sunshine Samba - Chris Haugen (0:25) Hold on a Second - John Deley and the 41 Players (1:58) Finding Science - JR Tundra (4:22) Best of Both Worlds (Chiptune Remake) - Mr. Chippy Music (6:10, 9:26) Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (6:10)Upgrading the Ugliest Computer I OwnThe Science Elf2018-11-24 | This week we take a look at the Gateway Profile 5.5, one of many interesting All-In-One designs of the early 2000s.
Music Used: Handprints - John Deley and the 41 Players (0:00) The Messenger - Silent Partner (1:25) Windows Welcome Music - Microsoft (4:59) Four Guys - The Beatles (5:50)
Games tested (in order of appearance): Bricks of Egypt - ArcadeLab (6:54) Plants vs Zombies - PopCap Games (6:56) HamsterBall - Raptisoft (6:59) Portal - Valve (7:02) Club Penguin Rewritten (7:22)Windows ME: Worth the Hate?The Science Elf2018-11-03 | Windows ME is easily one of the most derided versions of Windows, but few seem to realize just how much influence it had over versions of Windows following it.
Music Used: Feel The Funk - Jimmy Fontanez (0:00) Love Explosion - Silent Partner (0:43) Storage Theme - Chex Quest (2:34) Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (4:04) Present Day - E's Jammy Jams (6:38) Sunshine Samba - Chris Haugen (8:32)The Development Disaster behind macOSThe Science Elf2018-10-06 | While the popular macOS sees updates nearly annually now, there was a time where Apple struggled for years to get a major update out.
Music Used: You're not that Funky - Otis McDonald (0:00) Tiptoe Out the Back - Dan Lebowitz (0:38) Rank and File - Silent Partner (3:26) Handprints - John Deley and the 41 Players(5:42) Fuzzy Feeling - Everet Almond (7:17) You Had To Be - E's Jammy Jams (9:03) Cologne 1983 - Josh Kirsch (10:47) Feel The Funk - Jimmy Fontanez (12:14)The Best Game of 2004 (kinda...)The Science Elf2018-09-14 | What can you do when you're a kid with a crappy computer and no money to spend on games? Download free trials of course! This week, I'm taking a look at a childhood favorite: Bricks of Egypt.
Music Used: You're not that Funky - Otis McDonald (0:00) Dan Lebowitz - Tiptoe Out the Back (1:27)Whatever Happened to Clippy?The Science Elf2018-08-11 | A long time ago I made a video on Clippy, the nearly universally hated paperclip from Microsoft Office. I figured now was a good time for an update.
-HP Photosmart Mobile Camera -Pharos iGPS -Nevo (Remote control software)
Check out my video on the iPaq here: youtu.be/UUAwlZJV_UgA Windows PC in your PocketThe Science Elf2018-06-01 | Back before smartphones were ubiquitous in terms of portable computing, another device was popular. This week, we take a look at the HP iPaq h2215, a Windows Mobile PocketPC from 2003.
Stay tuned for next time for a demonstration of some of the hardware peripherals this thing can use.
Also check out LGR's video on the iPaq rx1955: youtube.com/watch?v=wm5omDCENPoThe Agony of File Converters (Part 2)The Science Elf2018-05-05 | In a recent video, I managed to get an image from my camera all the way onto my Apple iiGS. I also promised I'd outline the process, so, here ya go.65,536 Subscriber SpecialThe Science Elf2018-04-22 | Happy 65k everyone!
See you all at 131,072 subscribers!Snapchat in the 80sThe Science Elf2018-03-31 | Snapchat, the popular image sharing social media platform, has only been around for a few years, but the technology to digitally take a photo and send it has existed for at least thirty years.
Check out more videos by SquirrelMonkey: youtube.com/channel/UCXA2lepIpHZ24iQU22WgDeAThe Rarest Computer in my CollectionThe Science Elf2018-03-17 | Even though many of the computers in my collection are hard to find, or no longer manufactured, only one can claim the title of being the only one of its kind to be made.A Quick MessageThe Science Elf2018-03-09 | I guess I could put this on my community page, but this just seemed more fun.The Evolution of Computer SpeechThe Science Elf2018-02-26 | More and more products seem to come out that make use of some form of a computer text-to-speech voice, with today's voices sounding acceptably realistic. Even though speech-based products are fairly recent, the concept of electronically generating a voice has been around for nearly a century.Search Before GoogleThe Science Elf2018-02-03 | It's pretty easy to take the search engine Google for granted today, but twenty years ago, there was no such thing. In fact, for well over a decade before Google, search engines were crawling, indexing and searching.Make a Windows XP Bootable Flash DriveThe Science Elf2018-01-13 | Ever want to take Windows XP (or any version of Windows, really) with you wherever you go? Maybe you'd rather use XP than the OS installed on a public computer. Maybe you just want to prank your friends and watch as their computer boots into a 16 year old OS.
Whatever the case, today I'm going to show you how to create a bootable flash drive that will launch Windows XP in a virtual machine on (almost) any computer you plug it into.
Commands: sudo apt-get install virtualbox vboxmanage startvm “Windows XP” --type GUI cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox" vboxmanage clonehd [source file path] [destination path] --format RAWThe Rise and Fall of FlashThe Science Elf2017-12-23 | Shockwave/Macromedia/Adobe Flash was at one point an integral part of the web. Why then, is it a mostly forgotten and ignored software platform? Today, I'm taking a look at what caused the Rise and Fall of Flash.Installing Modern Windows on a 14 Year Old TabletThe Science Elf2017-11-18 | I've received plenty of interesting recommendations for what software I should try on my TC1100 Tablet, so here's a quick run through some of the more popular suggestions, along with a few I was curious about myself.Before iPhone, there was Newton...The Science Elf2017-10-21 | I've made a video in the past about the Apple Newton, but since that video was more of a review, I decided to revisit the Newton with a more in-depth retelling of its story.
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Photo Credit (7:12) - Sonny Hung flickr.com/photos/sonnyhung/352420652/in/photolist-x9fo9-BPJN6-98Bj7-98Bj6-x9fo2-98zFk-x9fo7-x9fnX-wZSKd-98zFj-wZSKc-wZSKf-6fqHAs-98zFh-wZSKi-9S1LQ-9S1LR-98zFi-98zFn-98Bj8-98zFm-wZSK4-98Bj5-9XNN3-wZSKg-6fmwht-vEFda-6fmwni-6fmwh4-CbUTg-o3gh9-2gsSk-6fqHzA-prk88-6fqHyu-6fqHx5-yBMR1-6fqHz7-9S1LS-wGxRH-prk7V-vEFdr-praCM-prk87-vEFdn-vEFde-vEFdw-prk7P-prk7M-vEFdhThe Story Behind Windows VistaThe Science Elf2017-10-09 | We're all familiar with Windows Vista, and it's common knowledge that reception for it wasn't very positive, but how could an OS that had years of work behind it and plenty of new ideas fail?Windows Movie Maker - A Brief HistoryThe Science Elf2017-09-09 | What would early YouTube be if it weren't for Windows Movie Maker? Granted, we interpret it as low quality now, but at the time of its release it was an impressive program to be included free with Windows.That Time Blackberry Made a TabletThe Science Elf2017-08-11 | Not many people seem to know about the Blackberry Playbook released in 2011, and as someone who used to get a lot of usage out of one, I felt like sharing my thoughts on the device.The Story of BonziBuddy (1999-2004)The Science Elf2017-07-28 | A lot of people recognize the infamous purple gorilla spyware program, but few are aware that BonziBuddy was just one of the many applications created by Bonzi Software.Electric Dreams - Movie ReviewThe Science Elf2017-07-14 | Say it's cheesy, say it's creative, but don't say it isn't entertaining; this is Electric Dreams.Making XP Secure: The Story Behind SP2The Science Elf2017-06-30 | With Microsoft recently releasing the first XP update in three years in an effort to stop WannaCrypt, I thought it was appropriate to bring up the story of a previous XP update that made the OS more secure.The Rise and Fall of BlackberryThe Science Elf2017-06-17 | In a world dominated by smartphones and portable touchscreen devices, it's easy to forget a time when a pocket sized email device was the must-have item.This Tablet Runs Windows XPThe Science Elf2017-06-02 | In the early 2000's HP released a tablet PC running a touch-optimized version of Windows XP. Surprisingly, 14 years later, it's still a fairly competent computer.3d Graphics on a CalculatorThe Science Elf2017-05-19 | Graphing calculators are pretty commonly used for things like, well, calculation, but thanks to algorithms like ray tracing, they can render incredibly realistic (for a calculator) 3d graphics.
Downloads (Compatible with TI-84 C and TI-84 CE): -Files (github.com/TheScienceElf/TiBASIC-Raytracing) -TI Connect Software( education.ti.com/en/products/computer-software/ti-connect-sw )Apple iiGS Talking to a NewtonThe Science Elf2017-05-05 | Just a little experiment I tried, since I was a bit too busy to make a full video this week.Battle of the Browsers (Part 2)The Science Elf2017-04-21 | In Part 1, I told how through questionable marketing tactics Microsoft was able to influence the public to use their web browser Internet Explorer. That market dominance, though, was due to see some new challenge from an even stronger competitor.Battle of the Browsers (Part 1)The Science Elf2017-04-07 | With the creation of the World Wide Web in the 1990's many companies vied for the position of most used web browser, even to the point of some rather questionable business practices.The Agony of File ConvertersThe Science Elf2017-03-24 | How difficult could it possibly be to copy files over to an Apple Newton from the internet? Particularly difficult.
UNNA http://www.unna.org/view.php?Format Wars: Blu-Ray vs. HD DVDThe Science Elf2017-03-10 | When HD video for the home was being introduced, two different disks were vying to be the standard for high density optical storage: Blu-Ray, or HD DVD. Naturally, only one was successful.