Stream Deck Plus

 A new piece of kit and learning to program this to work with DaVinci Resolve as well as other software on the machine. This is the @Elgato StreamDeck Plus. So far it seems excellent

New Studio Setup

 Spent some of the day creating a new studio to produce some new videos on programming the Halo forge system                                                                               

Photoelectric Effect

 Using an @Adaptalux UV light 365nm and a charged Gold leaf electroscope to demonstrate the photelectric effect Using the zinc plate nothing happed, but when we placed calcium on top of the plate and shone the light the charge was lost.

XBox S setup

 Squeezing in the Xbox S next to the Blackmagic shuttle to do some recording of the new Halo Forge so we can do a tutorial on my Sons Gaming channel

Time lapse root growth

The hardest part about time lapse photography is getting the rate right. Too many photographs too often makes the video long and slow to watch, but take the photographs too infrequently and the film is too fast Getting it right requires some practice
 

Hyacinth Root growth Timelapse

 24 hrs of root growth of a Hyacinth bulb compressed into 12 seconds

Macro Photography

 Macrophotography is hard enough, needing stacked photographs but getting really good light is essential. The @Adaptalux lights are great for getting white, UV or coloured light just where you need it, to get really great shots of hard to see things.

Webcam or Camera, ATEM and Streamdeck

 

You can teach online using just a webcam, but put in an ATEM with multiple cameras, Visualiser and Wacom Cintiq tablet, connected to a audio mixer and Stream Deck then you have an online teaching system.

Biology

Autumn is the season for collecting things like sweet chestnuts and to video them as they dry out and open releasing their seeds. Some need high speed others time-lapse.

New Dice

 A pair of Sicherman dice. Different numbers on the dice but have the same probability as 2 normal 1-6 dice. The students compared these to normal dice to convince themselves that they actually work.