Being a car mechanic since 1962 I have always been interested in all sorts of propulsion devices. When I was at tech school for my apprenticeship I designed a four stroke engine that the inlet and exhaust valves were operated by solenoids. The idea was to get rid of power wasted by the force needed to turn the camshaft that is impossible to turn by hand on a conventional engine, whether it would have used less power than the electrical power needed to work it I don't know, and of course at the time it was not possible to actually make it !. I was also involved in the last 5 years with an engine that had a variable compression ratio with pistons that had sprung loaded top crowns, although we tried really hard (and spent a lot of time on it and had it actually working) we decided that it probably wouldn't be suitable for a road going engine that would have to travel thousands of miles a year.
A good friend of mine was a mechanic on ships and I was aware at the enormous size of the huge engines after he sent me a picture of him standing on top of a diesel engines piston inside of a cylinder !
From 1968 to 2011 I was involved in competitive motorsport and had great success building my own race engines, I won approx 280 races and 2 British Championships.

Thanks Alfred, multicam tomorrow, however I took a walk up to our local hop garden today to have a look at one of the workers putting the strings up for this years harvest. As is usual the latest Hi Tech equipment is used on this farm ! Regarding the camera on eBay I might just keep it as I would probably only get a couple of hundred quid if I was lucky !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2InWdAaUF4

I like that Albert, that's the best time to catch Sheffield park with all the colours fighting each other to be filmed. Love the music that fits it and obviously given the whole video a bit of thought, well done.

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I carry this fold flat device about in my pocket for filming things that are low on the ground using close up filters on the camera if needs be, cheap as chips but very stable. The Z Flex tilt head mount is ideal for filming small plants/flowers/insects and of course as the screen on the camcorder can be turned horizontal you can frame/focus the shot easily. Obviously it can be used instead of a tripod if put on a suitable place.

Likewise, looks like we have another 3 years !

How time flies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltpk5PLzhnc

My really old laptop that I use in my workshop for vehicle problems for customers is still running on Windows XP, I never go on the internet with it and update any new programs with a flash drive.

I enjoyed that Eric, well done for a good easy film to follow. Looking at the Wallabies, where we live in the UK there was an Australian guy who had a few on his large premesis and sometimes when we were driving about we would encounter one that had got out !  We are used to lots of deer around the area but to suddenly be confronted by one of these in the road (especially at night) was a bit of a shock !

I really liked that, good content and music to match it as well, I think that I have seen another film by the same person via a link from a while back last year.

Apart from some early 8mm films that were made on a clockwork non focusing job most of my films were made on various S8 sound fully adjustable/focusing cameras and projected with an Elmo stereo projector that I still have along with an Akai reel to reel for the stereo soundtracks and both still work OK.
I had some quite good results projecting them onto a mid grey cardboard screen that I found was better than a pure white one as it didn't show a picture with too much contrast and white glare, and filmed them with one of my camcorders.
The problem is that I have about 20 years of films with some of them being 30/40 minutes long and I cant see myself getting around to actually doing them. I have just realized that there is a picture of me on the lookout tower on the set of Treasure Island back in the 70s that seems to be in the wrong place ?

Very often when I am out I sometimes want to take a shot of us walking for my videos,  I know that you can simply place the camera on the ground or a wall but very often there isn't a suitable place that is secure enough to fix it.
I have looked at several of the mini tripods in the past and decided to get a Ulanzi MT33 that cost a massive £18! It claims that it will hold up to 2Kg, you can fit it to almost anything that the legs will fit round and will hang upside down as well as free standing.  It has a ball head that will swivel to 90deg also a cold shoe mount and a built in phone mount ! It is very well made and if you zoom into the picture that I took that is holding one of my camcorders you can see the quality.
The ones that are made up of clip together plastic balls that hold that sort of weight are a fortune to buy in comparison and very often fall apart after a short time. Last of all it will go in a pocket.This is a picture I took of one of my camcorders on the flexible mount.