Please make more collins labs! these are great!

collin's lab video production is of the greatest quality

great video don't stop making Collins lab

Best one yet!

Collin Cunningham is a natural teacher--he always makes everything so simple. God bless the Adafruit Gang.

I'm so glad this videos are still around. just as watchable, well paced and informative as 2014

Finally! Collin's Lab!

Collin's Lab videos are probably my favorite thing on UKposts.

Collin, as always, your labs are educational and entertaining. More teachers should use your videos (like I used to), as they're typically all around better than than the ones supplied by curriculum makers. Kudos galore!

Do more please. This is a fantastic production.

I cant get enough of Collin's Lab

"Your move, Sun." *Solar Flare*

More Collin's lab FTW!!!

I dig Collin's Lab don't stop doing it bro.

Just the music, man. This was the best series ever.

Hooray! More Collin Cunningham!

Very glad to see this series continuing.

More of Collin, please. He's very entertaining and informative.

When I was younger, before there was one... I thought a solar powered flashlight was a good idea. It does sound silly but it's on the market now. Follow your dreams! It's great to see that "Colin's lab" is still around.

AWESOME! More Collin's Lab, please!

PLEASE KEEP MAKING THESE COLLIN'S LAB VIDEOS!!!!!

Awesome video as usual Collin. Keep'em coming. I always learn something.

You're back! This was my favorite series back on make, and you were the one that got me into electronics! *Fangirls*

I always look forward to Collin's videos.

This is awesome. Love Colin's lab. This this is the first one I've seen and very interesting indeed. Thank you!

Great video -- Collin, you have a knack for making something complex very understandable. I have learned a lot from you -- A LOT! Thanks.

I love Colin's Lab. Keep them coming!

Thanks Collin! I learn something new every time - Keep up the great work!

OK, I've gone through all your videos and I'm ready for MORE! Great videos.

Simple, Basic, Quick and to the Point. Ty

Excellent as always !

I LOVE "Collin's Lab", It's the best EVER!!!!!!!

YES MORE COLLINS LAB!!!

Nice frame of lower Manhattan and Jersey City at the end there. Great video!

Great videos ever I have seen and the presentation style is awesome

Great series!

WAAAAAAAW , I love your work Collins :)

Great explanation!

You do the job call "Steve Job " you so awesome . big thanks to all your lectures and your teaching so fun .

Wow! Awesome! I have been reading lots of books about solar and... I just understand the basic concept by viewing this 5.25 minutes video! Cool! Keep it up! :)

What a beautiful video!

YOU ARE THE MAN. love the video

Very interesting and very useful! Thanks :)

WOW .... refreshed from the sun!

5:06 really nice photography there

Holy crap i used to watch colins lab all the time and i just thought i would revisit some of his old videos and somehow slipped under my radar and made a small series! Looks like he is gone again though...

Just looooooove it !!! Thank you, I am gonna go displace some electrons now - my panel has arrived :)

More Colin!

Colin's back!!

Only Collin could make me laugh in the first 3 seconds 😂😂😂

Great production as always by Collin's Lab. I wish the uploading schedule was better though. I think that every two weeks would be a fair amount of time to film and edit the videos. There is roughly a month and a half between each of these videos. Keep it up Adafruit!

Quality content as usual, ta sur.

Collin, sweet vids.

awesome style

The raw output a small solar panel can be used in place of a light dependent resistor (LDR). Also, hooking a small panel to an amplifier or a voltage controlled oscillator creates some interest sounds. Allows you to hear sunlight.

OMGOSH THEY BROUGHT COLLINS LAB BACK

Hey Collin, great video! I'm interested in doing it myself. Can you please list the materials/components used? Maybe with links to Adafruit store. Thanks.

omg this guy is my favorite

Learn a lot! I have no idea about the diodes and leds can capture light and transform it in voltage. Thanks!

very enjoy watching this....he is so funny, more pls...

thank you!

Great work! I wish he made a video weekly. :-)

The quality of the video in great...

Great video! =)

Mate you are awesome

do the electrons ever reset to the junction between the positive and negative layers?? or once they get nocked out once, they're done...

I love this guy

why has collin not been enrolled to work in the startrek movies yet? i could just imagine the a discussion between him, scotty and spock :) thanks for posting!

really amusing

This feels like something that would be aired in Tv UNAM

2:55 ,yelling at my screen "Ahh,but they do!" Also,some old transistors work too- find an old TO-3 case transistor,and pop the top off to expose the die to the light. :)

these are really good. make moar!

Alton Brown+Dwight Schrute.

Quality video made by quality man. You are my favorite electronics guy. But one video is missing. ie., How computers work.. Would you please make it for us..? Based on these points..>> memory, CPU, input and output. I will be very grateful if you make one.

My solar power idea is to simulate an effective way to use solar power in a van to work off grid. My idea is to use gps and compass devices to quickly turn and tilt solar panels to point at the sun and then use a sort of max-min algorithm run by an Arduino to keep the solar panels pointed at the sun for max output. I'll do it on my desktop at a smaller scale because I don't actually have a van or much money. I can pull off a simulation on my desktop though. So far I've gotten from Adafruit a GPS Antenna, a Ultimate GPS with USB - 66 channel w/10 Hz updates, and a Triple-axis Accelerometer+Magnetometer (Compass) Board - LSM303Triple-axis Accelerometer+Magnetometer (Compass) Board - LSM303. Next I'll get a 6v solar panel and a solar charge controller and a battery. For a complete simulation I'd need some sort of inverter of course. Does Adafruit have that? I also need gears to rotate and tilt. Pretty sure Adafruit doesn't have that. Any suggestions on where I could get the gears?

"Your move sun" lol

It is bittersweet to see that Collin Cunningham is making videos again. They are definitely different than the videos he was making years ago. These new Adafruit videos seem watered down. They feel scripted, unlike the old videos which seemed geeky in an organic way. Nevertheless, I will continue to watch. Collin is better than no Collin.

I learned that LEDs can actually produce power here first, folks! Awesome haha That makes me wonder, do outdoor LED billboards take this into consideration? I'd imagine the back-feed of that much power being generated when the sun hits them, creating a problem.

Love the hat!, should have worn a white/cream suit though. :) For his next video Colin will be modeling a solar powered baseball cap with cooling fan. :)

where i can listen to your music?

great thks

I never notice that before zener diode and LED diode are producing small amount of electricity! wow

Hmm, solar fan. What a great idea!

What does he use in this video, (like how did he connect everything)

Where are you Mr. Cunningham? These tech sites are getting views because of you sir. Please come back to YT.

You very funny ! which make it fun to watch.

"Your move Sun" *Sun intensifies*

Colin's lab reminds me of pokemon trainer tips.

If LEDs read light coming in - can your monitor be a camera? I believe The LCDs have LEDs behind the liquid crystal. If so aren't all TV's, watches and cell phones just cameras? Is big brother watching you?

Cool. The snazz

WooHoo! We have an excess of holes! And next you're going to tell me that the holes flow from positive to negative, right?

dont wear a black suit..on the roof lmaooo

Any solar energy light can give off energy

what is the song in the intro?

Can the panel run out of electrons?

Wao

make a music instrumental... like arduino drum with you own code,, that will be cool... i wish you can make one....

diodes can make electricity o.O cool

Never thought the diode can produce energy

Codys lab