YouTube has a lot of good edutainment channels. Here are some samples from a few channels that I follow. These samples are from Smarter Every Day, Vsauce, The History Guy, Veritasium, Mustard, Wendover Productions, Kurzgesagt, CGP Grey, Real Engineering, Tom Scott, and Donut Media.
If you have suggestions to add to the list please share them. I’d like to see more edutainment stuff but it’s not always easy to find.
Not sure what qualifies as edutainment, so some of these channels might be a little short on the entertainment part hahaha
Great Scott! is a German dude who does electronics projects and has nice handwriting
EEVblog is one of the more well known channels, but worth mentioning. Aussie fella who’s voice can be grating at times, and the content is pretty dry, but TONS of good info.
Gamers Nexus is a channel that covers computer hardware and they’re not afraid to get technical, like REALLY nitty gritty stuff.
If GN is way over your head, Explaining Computers is a channel that, well explains computers, but in a way that any laymen should be able to follow.
Cody’s Lab is pretty popular and I would say definitely qualifies as edutainment, the production value isn’t great, but it’s fun watching Cody have fun.
The following channels are of questionable educational value…
The 8-bit guy
Possum lady
LGR - Retro gaming fun
Here’s a couple I frequent:
These are some of the channels I love:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NO8MgTQKHAWXp6z8Xl7yQ
I really enjoy Mr.Pete222 or known as Tubalcain. He has great videos Ive watched most of them & even answered some of the things he wasn’t sure of what they were, He does reply too.
Here’s another good one from Smarter Every Day. They’re talking about saw kick back and an invention to detect and stop it. Pretty neat stuff if you’re into wood working or electronics.
Pretty damn smart.
Compliant mechanisms? Crazy.
There are 3D files to print on their website.
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Destin is one of my favorite. In that vein:
Mark Rober: https://youtu.be/xoxhDk-hwuo
Bob Clagett: https://www.youtube.com/user/iliketomakestuffcom
And of course, This Old House: https://www.youtube.com/user/thisoldhouse
I just watched mercury rolling down coin funnel…what has become of my life.
Found an interesting YT Channel that covers a fair amount of science content and he is local in Dallas
Answers with Joe:
Bringing back the dead.
Ive been watching Vice-Grip Garage… Pretty funny stuff.
And Business Blaze, no particular favorite video.
We watch TOT as soon as he releases a new video. Gotta love his hand magic & hand chop saw. Thankfully our lathe isn’t a time machine like his.
Ugh, that name made me cringe, not because of the content but because of the memories of wrenching on kids’ freestyle BMX bikes where every fastener had been rounded off by the kid using Vice-Grips as a wrench.
I’ve started watching some DIY Creators stuff - he’s able to accomplish a lot, sometimes doing it with simple tools to show that you can.
These are maybe a tad basic, but my favorite edutainment channels on YouTube are:
Adam Savage’s Tested
SciShow
PBS Eons