<story><title>Tim Hunkin (Secret Lives of Machines)</title><url>https://www.timhunkin.com/control/o_about_the_site.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6502_blitbit</author><text>Let me try to give you a sense of Tim’s ability to captivate people’s interest in the mundane all around us and inspire people to want to know ‘how’ even more than you thought was possible. I grew up in an engineering household in the 70s&amp;#x2F;80s. Dad was an ME that worked on some pretty revolutionary stuff (VTOL aircraft) and he brought home a computer in 1983. I was immersed in engineering 24&amp;#x2F;7,  knew I wanted to be a programmer by 13 and was deeply interesting in tearing things apart to see how they worked. Then in my freshman year in college I stumbled on the secret life of machines bbc series and it absolutely blew me away. Tim had a way of deconstructing the everyday things around us (fax machines, telephony, washing machines, etc). I thought I had an already abnormal passion to learn how things worked and Tim showed me another universe. His deadpan, matter of fact, understated and expert ways of presenting things inspired me in ways that made me what I am today. I’ve been fortunate to work with world class engineers at FAANGs for the last 15 years and I can easily say that Tim is _the_ engineer’s engineer. Thank you Tim.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tim Hunkin (Secret Lives of Machines)</title><url>https://www.timhunkin.com/control/o_about_the_site.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chiph</author><text>Tim also operates the Novelty Automation arcade in London. When I return to the UK, it&amp;#x27;s at the top of my list of things to see. His machines have his amazing sense of satire&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ort-VEOZ0iI&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ort-VEOZ0iI&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>