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Learning how to walk... (Patreon)

Published:
2018-06-30 13:07:00
Edited:
2018-06-30 16:45:17
Imported:
2026-11

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It's time for another update!

Another two weeks have past since the last video. It have been weeks with lot of work. As you might already known I have a contract with electromaker to produce three videos for them. One was the POV lightsaber.. the second will be MQTT lights wich you can see in the image above and will be released soon. The third one will be a gyro controlled robot arm which is working already. That means I'm almost freeeeee again!

You might get the impression it was some kind of betrayal, since you are supporting me already and I'm selling out. As a matter of fact my channel is currently really going down and I'm very miserable about that more than you could imagine.  

Starting YouTube a a full time job is like learning to walk again. I have tried many things with my channel in the past months and everything seems to fail. Very few views and subs.. YouTube seems to punish me somehow or I misinterpret what my audience really wants.

Being stressed about my finances lead me to the contract with electromaker. This will gives me bump for another few months of living... but what I underestimated was the effort I would put in and that my own channel will go down during this time. A bitter lesson in being a YouTuber.

I want to look forward now... Back to the roots. I have a huge backlog in editing and lots of ideas for smaller projects. 

The next video is about letting the MQTT lamp visualize music like an equalizer. My old video https://youtu.be/SToBPCajwc0 is even really helping :-D

No worries.. the self driving car project will still live :-)


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Ten Digits

Anything that helps you maintain the ability to produce more great content is fair game in my opinion. Good luck, and thanks!

Sebastian Moder

Yes that’s fine! Do everything you can to survive! It doesn’t matter for me/us on which channel or platform your content is present. Just continue to produce it! Best wishes

Andy Gaffney

I think you have to look at every option to stay in the game. I agree you made the right decision. For me, your most useful project was Home Automation with the D1-mini. I was kinda hoping you would go further with that. The inclusion of humour works well.

Ristomatti Airo

I'm with the other commenters on this. Especially I agree with Andy that the home automation content has been the most useful for me. I also have a gut feeling that it might have been what has attracted a big portion of viewers to your channel as it's something that so many can relate to. There seems to be surprisingly little creative and quality content on the subject. From the channels I follow it's pretty much only Andreas Spiess that has videos coming out. SuperHouse is another but he seems to be posting stuff very rarely these days also. Good luck with the difficult situation, hopefully you'll get things running smoothly again and can follow your dream being an independent maker!

Ristomatti Airo

Another observation I've made is that some of your newer content has been on very advanced topics but going with so fast pace it's quite impossible for me (and probably a lot of others also) to grasp much information of how to learn something from them. What I'm trying to say is it might help to try to focus more on the how to do something instead of focusing on the end result. This way viewers could also learn from the videos and not only be amazed of the things you've been working on. :)

bitluni

Thanks! I think you'll like the stuff that is currently going on!

bitluni

It's true. The home automation video is the most popular on my channel. My interest have shifted a bit with the ESP32 but I also like to revisit some of my home automation projects now :-)

bitluni

I know what you mean... it's a hard decision. Either being educational or entertaining. It's hard to do both. I could imagine it could work to split up a project into multiple parts and dedicate the final part to a polished show off that drags in new viewers.

bitluni

Thanks Matt! I'll definitively rework the game console code a bit. Had few chats with me no dev from espressif about the PSRAM. It might end up being much work and my channel is starving. I need to catch up with small projects first. I'll regroup this summer and revisit the console in August. Amongst the small project ideas are also physical midi instruments but I'm waiting for the parts for months now.. one $50 shipping was even "lost" in the customs (no refund) and I had to reorder.. It's really tedious.

Andy Gaffney

Indeed! <a href="https://sunrise-sunset.org/api" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://sunrise-sunset.org/api</a> has the three times before Sunrise which are used by Photographers to find the best time to shoot. The "Golden Hour". { "results": { "sunrise":"7:27:02 AM", "sunset":"5:05:55 PM", "solar_noon":"12:16:28 PM", "day_length":"9:38:53", "civil_twilight_begin":"6:58:14 AM", "civil_twilight_end":"5:34:43 PM", "nautical_twilight_begin":"6:25:47 AM", "nautical_twilight_end":"6:07:10 PM", "astronomical_twilight_begin":"5:54:14 AM", "astronomical_twilight_end":"6:38:43 PM" }, "status":"OK" }

bitluni

Not bad! Maybe a good IoT project :-D