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Jill Sobule Forgotten Nuggets
This past week has been one of reminiscing, talking about, and finding lost treasures from and about my late friend Jill Sobule. I turned off the monetization so that I could put this one together.
Computers: Least Fancy = Most Better!
Easy Good - Bloat Bad!!
Is It The End Of Adsense???
Whatever happens, it will happen soon. Stay tuned...
FranLab Live: Just What The $%@! Am I Doing Edition
What is this thing?
Filling The Case! BINA Controller Pt. 3
Time to fill the case and get everything in place.
How We Got Into This Mess (In 3 Minutes)
If you think I don't know what I'm talking about, you do know that I started and ran an all American manufacturing company right? Enjoy!
Identity Crisis In FranLand
What is it that I do again? Maybe someone can remind me what my REAL job is... I really don;t remember. Enjoy!
Tribute To Jill Sobule
All Jill Songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-nqU4ZztWRc3akeLUeERQ America Back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX47ObjShLA Somewhere In New Mexico - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIlJ6P0-kP4 Soldiers of Christ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0c3HK0Z6Y Heroes - https://www.youtube.com/...
FranLab Live: Laughing And Crying Edition
Show Must Go On.
Lettering That Really Pops! BINA Controller Pt. 2
Part Two of my BINA VIEW Control project has me creating the front panel artwork using a technique I have never tried before. Let's see how it turns out! Enjoy....
Old Parts - Old Days
It was different in the 90's.
Silent Film Music?
Thinking about stuff on my livestream.
Here Come The New Bots!
Bots Bots Everywhere! Oh, those lovable little scamps... what clever things will they think of next? Enjoy!
FranLab Live: Stop The World I Want To Get Off Edition
Major Fran to Ground Control....
BINA VIEW Controller Pt1 - The Case
Here we go - another project! I am using a vintage NOS Archer case for the BINA VIEW Controller project, and so we go to the Phactory to get it ready. Enjoy!
Goodbye Gaia, 100 Years Of Electronic Recording, Glassified Brains, And More!
For April 20, 2025... Enjoy!
Mini Mail: Choices Choices!
There can be only One - power indicator in my BINA VIEW Controller!
Could FranArt Save FranLab?
Comment with your thoughts.
FranLab Live: Broken Record In Hell Edition
Another Week in Crazytown.
Very First LED Desk Clock From 1974
This is the Texas Instruments model TI-71 digital alarm clock, and so far as I know it is the first example of a full sized display LED table clock that could be bought retail. The shape reminds me of a Star Trek prop. The World's First BIG LED Displays! (Dialco 7-Segment displays from 1975) - h...
West Point (1978)
This US Army film contained copyrighted music from start to finish - so much of it in fact that I held off posting it here for over a year - but recently YouTube introduced AI music deletion tools that I employed to remove the copyrighted audio from this film, with some interesting artifacts left be...
This Week In Bad News
Enjoy! (Not!)
Hoaxters (1952)
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
FranLab Live: Getting Taken For A Ride Edition
Get the lights.... Thread the projector.... Pop the popcorn.
Hoaxters (1952)
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Rare Film Clock Mechanism
Just when you think you've seen them all here comes something unusual - definitely a piece of transitional technology somewhere between projection displays and flip clocks. It takes what was readily available at the time and puts that tech to use in a bedside clock radio. Enjoy!
Make FranLab Happen!
Over the past month dozens of you have signed on to the FranLab feed here on Patreon as free members - but my posts here are only visible to supporters of the channel, so why not join in and help FranLab continue through 2025? As a genuine Patron of FranLab you'll get sneak previews of all my ...
Lumitime Fail!!!
Oh, the pain - How many times have I worked on this amazing all-mechanical 7-segment Lumitime clock??? Too Many is the answer - but here I am once again to do a postmortem on one of my favorite clocks that has finally bitten the dust. Let's take a look...
Laser Compumate2 From 1988
Sent in by viewer Chris in the last Viewer Mail, this little Personal Assistant from 1988 is unusual and a bit puzzling - not really a professional device, but made to look like one. Let's take a closer look...
1965 Neon Electro-Dice Game
Thanks to viewer Jesse for sending in these two Electro-Dice games from 1965 - a forgotten piece of history rediscovered! Nostalgia Neon Blinky Tree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Phk-Ow7gU
