The Content Creator's Q&A Session

So, I'm a content creator and this is my YouTube production taking up too much of my time these days. This is probably my full-time job and doing a PhD requires way too much time and attention but if one day I say that I want to do a PhD, then it is definitely an option for me to quit YouTube.

I have a last Facebook question from Remo Flicky, what's your selection of must-have literature? Um, I think he's talking about literature on electronics. For that, um, I've learned most of my electronics from the internet, mainly through YouTube videos and that's it basically. You can Google search so much, it's incredible how much you can learn through the internet.

So, literature is nice sometimes to have, but I think I have a book which is pretty good. I'll link it in the video description. It's called... (I don't remember the name of the book, sorry about that). That one is pretty good and then I also have some books on very specific subjects like BLDC motors synchronous motors. Those books are definitely good.

You can pretty much guarantee you can find them in a library at a university or something like that. So, it's not really a must-have literature. I rarely use those books; I read through them once and am like, "Okay, that's some nice knowledge." But most of the time for projects or anything, the internet offers so much information.

So, I would say there is no must-have literature. You can learn electronics without it, but that's just my opinion. Okay, and with that being said, we are done with the Q&A session. I hope you enjoyed it, and that's not the end because I know you're all waiting for this sequence... uh giveaway.

So, the way this works out is if you want to participate in my giveaway, like I said, three are for my Patreon supporters, one is for all YouTube viewers. You simply have to comment underneath this video in which you will say "I want to enter the giveaway". So, just write that sentence even if there are errors or mistakes in your writing; it doesn't matter.

Just right, "I want to enter the giveaway" and here's the important part: if you're a Patreon supporter, then make sure to write "Patreon" behind your username from Patreon. So, I can find you there. Please don't write underneath on the Patreon site; just in the YouTube comment section.

If your Patreon supporter, just write "I want to enter the giveaway" Patreon your username and you're in... um, you're in the Patreon giveaway, and I will find you as soon as the giveaway is over. And when I do, you'll have won. I will contact you there, other than that.

As soon as this video goes online, I will wait for a week, then I will randomly select winners from YouTube. I will post that on my community tab so look there; I will say this person has one, and then you will have to contact me there. There is a business email address which you can use.

For Patreon supporters, it's much easier once the week is over. I will contact them directly, and they will get their prize. And with that being said, I hope you like this Q&A video; I will continue my production as usual. It has been a tough first half year of 2020. I think you all know why but for me it all worked out somehow.

YouTube was changing a lot during that time; my views dipped and rose a lot during that time. It was just a bit chaotic, but especially with Patreon, I still have supporters which financially support me. So, I can continue my production even during those chaotic times, which I'm very thankful for. And yeah, that's that's basically all I want to say.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there as you might have noticed this is not your typical great scots episode video however you want to call it uh this is an episode of my unscripted q a video series so questions and answers and as you might already have noticed it is unscripted so i will think a lot about what i want to say i will say a lot of um and it's a bit more often a relaxed great scots episode so if that's not your cup of tea then skip this video watch the next one and the point of this video is just me giving you some updates of what is going on and answering your um questions especially from my patreon supporters which i asked and then i also ask you on twitter and facebook so once i'm done with the patreon questions i will move over to twitter and facebook and see how many questions i can answer there but before we start anything i have to say that for this episode i once again got a sponsor um which means i do not get any money but i get products to give away and this time it is from siegeland it is pretty heavy they sent me over a very nice lab bench power supply a programmable dc power supply and i used it a bit uh it's heavy i don't have to say that and i used it a bit it works great it's a great power supply for beginners intermediates for everyone who's into electronics i think and yeah they are giving me the chance to give away four of them so i would say stick around to the end of the video that is when i will say how you can win one of those um but let me just state that three of those are for my patreon supporters and one is for all my youtube viewers so uh now you know about the giveaway but that is not all sigland asked me to announce something it's not really an announcement i think i think this program has been this program of theirs have been online for quite a while so um they want me to tell you about their review program so you can look in the video description there will you there you will find a website to sickland where you can read about this i think and there will also be an email address where you can then submit screenshots and what they basically said they want me to say is that you can submit an honest product review of any sequent instruments you have to websites which have places for customer comments so basically if you ever bought a sickland instrument uh they have the problem that they apparently don't don't have many reviews so if you have an instrument head over to the site where you got it write a review there of course an honest review um if there are bad things about the instrument you should be free to say that if they're good things you are also free to say that that doesn't matter they want an honest review and if you do that you can send in a mail to register which should include a screenshot of your review and a link to your review and also the serial number of your instrument like i said this will also be a written in the video description of this video and if you then end if you send a honest review to sickland um the email address will also be in the video description then you can win a siegeland sds-1104 digital oscilloscope or a sdg 2042x function arbitrary waveform generator so that's stuff you can win that's really nice i think writing an honest product review isn't that hard so yeah if you're in this situation feel free to enter this giveaway of cigland and also stick around to the end of the video for my giveaway so that's enough for the beginning i think let's just move this out of the way for now and let's start off with the questions so for patreon at this time of recording i have 20 comments so 20 questions which i will answer so let's start off with the first question from marcus what was the biggest and most difficult project you have ever done um i think in the beginning the most the biggest and most complicated project was the electric skateboards not the version 2 which i did i think last winter which was the simpler version but i did one from scratch with a small bldc motor and then i have to come up with a gear system a holding system get that to the skateboard and i did a first version which is on youtube you can watch that it's three parts and then i also did a second version for my university which was even better but not on the internet and then i came to this simpler version which i still really like so at the time at the beginning of my youtube stuff this was the most complicated thing to do but i think another candidate for that would be my tesla coil which was quite hard to construct because the time limit for that was really tight i had to get this done right the first time so it wasn't a simple task to do i had lots of time pressure and then i said oh this has to work this way right now and then that was probably from the electronic side much more difficult than the electronic skateboard and for me it was the biggest and complicated project i think so far there are other ones which i i'm not sure if they come close but there where there are some big projects along the way of my youtube journey but i think the tesla coil was really was really the hardest and biggest one so far but let's see what the future brings to me maybe there will be even bigger and more complicated projects okay let's move on to the next question pierre cruz asks was your room messy at one point and how did you have the will to clean it up um my room is constantly messy i think i at right now i'm done with video production always on a friday or saturday and then i immediately start the new project on sunday so there's just a small time gap between projects and that is the time where i basically clean up and my room is completely littered with everything like components around pieces of paper where something is written scripts which i have to change the camera the camera gear it's a mess sometimes but i'm actually a very how do you say it a tidy person i i like order yeah that's very german we like order and when i get the chance i on friday or saturday i clean up everything everything everything goes back to the to its original place and then this repeats over the week and then once again i reset it at the end of the video production so the will for me is just um that i like order i like i like it when it's clean and also for video production it's not very good when you start a new one and everything is still messy from the old project so yeah that was my answer okay next question from conterror what sparked your interest in electronics um i think i said that before electronics was not actually the field i wanted to get into i wanted to get into renewable energies and electronics was just very close to it so i thought okay it's it's still electronics is very widely used and you can get a secure job with that and i liked math and physics so i thought it would be a good fit but what really sparked my interest in the end was an led cube i saw in the internet and i thought how is it possible to control like eight by eight by eight leds um with just a small self-made board and that is the point where i started researching and then i learned about it and i made my own not eight by eight by eight because that is totally insane just from the building aspect not even the controlling aspect and yeah that's how it all started with an led cube okay next question from ben franklin you have posted excellent info on meters thanks thank you a million i have acquired several meters that are marked seals do not open that i would like to replace the dial faces are these fields filled with inert gas can i safely open these and replace the dials ben i'm sorry i actually do not have an answer to that question i haven't worked with such old meters where you got a dial in that department i can sadly not help you maybe google or maybe one of the viewers knows that and writes it in the comment section below and if i see it i will try to highlight it so i hope you get your answer this way but not for me sorry next question from kevin forsythe what is your day job and what are your ultimate career plans um my day job is making such videos um i think it surprises some viewers that this is my day job but for anyone who's into video production web video production and watch my videos i hope it is clear that i put a lot of effort lots of time into the videos they take one video takes 40 to 60 hours to produce and yeah i got one video every week for three weeks and then a one week break so i think from the time aspect it seems like this could be my day job and yes it is and i've been doing this now full time for two years i think still works out perfect perfectly fine i have lots of fun um i i really like interacting with viewers i like reading all your comments and the financial aspect is also satisfying i would say i can finance my life with this so yeah this is my day job so the next part of the question was my ultimate career plans so for now nothing specific is set in stone i will continue doing youtube as long as it is fun for me satisfying the financial aspect is also okay and yeah i think i think that's all you need you need to have fun and the financial aspect has to be right i think that's that's kind of a dream job so those is my career this is my career for now for later i cannot say if youtube doesn't work out anymore no idea i love teaching maybe i will go into teaching maybe i will start a company on electronics engineering something like that not sure i i'm currently way too busy doing these videos and i actually do not have that much time to think about what comes next so let's move on with the next question from luis fernando if you get sponsored by a company to make a big project with unlimited budget would you accept and what would you like to do it depends if the company wants me to do a video about i don't know an electronics project which i'm not interested in then i will gladly um not agree i will disagree i will just do my own thing i will continue doing my own thing but if they say you can do whatever you want then yeah there's definitely a project which involves something like an electric car maybe an electric moped um especially my zimzon which i wanted to electrify for i don't know how long too long and the project is just too big right now to take it on just because of the time aspect so if i had unlimited budget i think i would invest into people who would who would help me with such a project so that i can get it and get it done more quickly and thus stay within my release schedule um that would be awesome i think i would definitely jump on this project opportunity for such an electric vehicle or maybe even something like a go-kart an electric go-cart also on my list which i wanted to do for such a long time but it's just so big such a project and uh there's so much going on behind the scenes which you do not see with all the planning and yeah i have to do this then and then and then and no i don't have time for such a big project because this has to come then and yeah it's it's really a struggle just getting the continuous video flow out but yeah that is my uh big project which i would do um next question from anonym do you have a discord server what do you think about lcr component testers um no i do not have a discord server um and what i do i think about lcl component testers they are pretty handy to have i think i have two and i used them a lot when i didn't have a proper lcr meter which i use right now for testing coils and capacitors but back then i used them for coils and capacitors and their readings were actually quite useful not perfect but useful so i think they do have a place on an electronics hobbyist workbench because they're just way more cheap than a proper lcr meter and there's nothing wrong with using them okay next question from kevin guntner if you were asked to design a commercial product to be put on the markets what would you design and how um um so i actually do not have a good product that i would put on the commercial market right now well i actually have but i'm working with a company on that behind the scenes and that should come out i don't want to make promises but soon i think it will be a product you can get it's not a fully completed project you have to solder the components to the pcb by yourself but i think it is a very handy circuit to have that will be out but other than that right now i don't have a good idea for a consumer products which i would like to get on the markets because when you decide on such a product it has to be a good one because when you put that much time and effort into a product it should it should be worth it in the end from a financial point of view and also from a customer rating kind of view if they're just a handful of customers who are like oh i i really need this then the effort doesn't really make sense so you have to find something that is accepted by the white i would say and will and also is very good in construction so i don't i didn't think about such a topic right now because i'm so much into the video production but maybe for later a good question and how would you do it yeah there are a thousand ways to do it i can't give you a specific answer right now so sorry about that next question from jofito would you consider making longer videos and extending the information depth for some topics sacrificing the quantity of videos you release no it's a it's a sad answer no but no um the problem with such youtube videos i think is that there uh there is not a limit on how long an episode can be i i watch 30 minutes youtube episodes but so far not about electronics about other stuff and there it works because it's got the uh viewers attention but i think for my subjects um my plan is not really like let's say i want to do a basics video um my idea of basics video is not telling you everything because electronics is such a wide field let's take the asynchronous motor for an example i actually all the stuff that is in the asynchronous motor video i didn't actually want to talk about i want i wanted to talk about much more advanced stuff but then you start okay who's watching my videos uh probably maybe beginners who just want to learn who want to get inspired by electronics and are like oh this is cool i i maybe want to find out more about that on my own and use that in a project so the idea for me in my videos is always just sparking interests i give you information which is important which is relevant to the topic but i don't go too deep where it go gets very scary for lots of people and where it gets unappealing i think so my videos do sometimes contain more information than probably other creators offer but it's not super super deep and i'm actually okay with that um because with that i reach a decent audience size i would say and lots of people seem to really enjoy it i get lots of positive feedback all the time of course there are some people who criticize which i'm also okay with i'm glad for all kinds of feedback of course hate is not useful for me but there are also people who hates but other than that just the feedback in general is very positive and of course there are people like you who are like i would love to learn so much more through your videos because you make them i hope you think they are good and you just want more longer videos about a subject in my style so that you can easily learn it or be entertained by it all that matters and yeah but but then again your i think your audience group is um a minority just like my patreon supporters are just a minority we are like uh i have 950 patreon supporters who really care about my production who invest the one dollar at least so that i can continue producing this stuff and i would love to make longer videos for you but from a financial side of you it's just not possible because for me the quantity of videos is also important because with that i have a new sponsorship every time which brings in a bit of money then there's also the ad revenue which also goes up a bit uh with each topic with each video so i cannot really do this one big video a month about a certain topic because it would be too in-depth people would get scared off they would not watch it because in the end um my content is not um as marketable for bigger audiences because i do go into um very specific electronics subjects and not just the general click bait thumbnaily thing on youtube where it's like oh i built the biggest magnets and then i built the biggest magnets and tell you all about it in more theory style stuff in the video i know my videos are usually not very appealing to most people i would say um because it's just so electronics oriented and not daily life oriented which is maybe um more accessible to other viewers so i know this answer is super long and super complicated and i hope i did not say something at the end which was against the first things i say in german it is called vidos present many sepsis pressure but i hope you get what i'm trying to say um longer videos are just not financially possible and i think it would not help getting more people into electronics so i just try to spark your interest with you with my videos give you the necessary and sometimes more details and i basically want you to learn the rest by yourself or by the internet or by books or by university whatever and that is basically my plan and i hope you're okay with that and i hope uh many people like it seems like many people like that and yeah sorry for the long long answer but that is the answer okay next question from eduardo diaz comellas you have made quite a few projects with usb power banks i would find it very useful to power a raspberry or an arduino with a power bank and solar power for 24 7 operation will you do a video on this um not specifically no i i actually just did a portable solar power video so you just take that and add a 5 volt output which i did with the buck boost converter and then you will have to see how to charge up a power bank with that and then you hook in raspberry pi or an arduino up to that so this is something very specific which i think is too specific for video right now because you can take pieces of other videos of mine and put that together on your own so sadly i will not do a video about that sorry um next question from paulo dos santos would you consider useful extending the analog design component on your videos it would be nice to have a more in-depth look at design options and evaluations once again um i think i do not really get the first part would you consider useful extending the analog design components on your videos so i think you want more in-depth information about the analog construction of my videos i will see how that fits in videos how much i can put in there but you would have to give me a proper example of where you missed that because i actually always try to go um in depth on my circuit designs i'm like oh this is there because it works like this and then i go there and this works like this and interacts with this i always try to do that and if i skipped on that on in a video maybe where i drive a mosfet then it is probably just because i talked about uh gate mosfet driving for so long and in so many videos and so in depth that i'm like okay i do not have to repeat this every time so this is actually a good advice if you're watching one of my videos and think oh how did he do that um then it is probably not that well explained in the video because i have done a video before which uh talked about this topic uh in detail or i did lots of projects before where i constantly said uh talked about that and at this point in the newer video i'm like i do not have to repeat this every time so i have 350 videos i'm not sure if you're looking for specific information then just go to the youtube search and like great scots mosfets or great scott igbt and you will certainly find an answer to this question on the design part and i think that that is a comment which i see very often i don't know how he did that in the precise manner so yeah definitely search for that on my channel there's probably lots of information about that that you missed okay moving on to the next question from mikey bg what is your favorite vacation destination um hard to say i've been to not too many vacation places so far last year i went to greece which was awesome the sun climate and nature with the hills and the vegetation was pretty interesting and just a pleasure to be there and but i've not been to too many places but so far there hasn't been a disappointment also there are some great spots in germany as well so i cannot really pick one favorite vacation destination but i will certainly visit greece again i think okay next question about clement heatherway have you ever thought of doing projects with gpib it would be cool to have one that uses gpib for automation and testing in case you don't know i had to look this up gpib is an interface used between pcs and measuring instruments so i think for a professional work environment this is very important if you want to measure something so i will definitely put it on my to-do list and i will see when i got the opportunity to work with such instruments and how i can include that in a video so we will see but i hope it will happen at some point next question from tim loops have you already been into electronics in high school otherwise what else aroused your interest arouse your interest that's a nice way to put it and back then i wasn't really into electronics i was more into from the knowledge side of field i was more into mathematics physics and programming actually more but there it was just simple programming um other than that i was into sports udo which is i'm not sure if that's the english term but it's kind of a martial arts than soccer or football i was into lots of sports i also like playing table tennis basketball all that stuff and then i also enjoyed watching movies playing video games and then also meeting friends going out something like that but not really into electronics that was just a lucky guess from me when i started my after-school life i would say okay the jukebox man says i have no question but thanks for the great videos um thanks a lot for the feedback you're welcome and i hope i can continue making such videos in the future so thanks a lot for your support next question from boss d sorry if i got the name wrong dear mr dear mr great scots what is the largest amount of current you've ever worked with sincerely bus dietscler don't bother about the name okay sorry anyway about the name um i haven't worked with such a huge amount i think in my job field back then it was probably with a three-phase motor which was drawing like maximum 16 amps so it was a small motor i think that was probably the biggest amount so phone power electronics engineer not much very very little current i would say but yeah in university you do not work with such current very often you just talk about it in the end so 16 amps for me not much next question from hannes ever thought about doing a collab i'd love to see a project between you and maybe kamui cosplay in creating a prop with a lipo plus arduino that can do a lot more things than just switching leds on and off i think they are not too far away from saxony um a collapse is definitely interesting i think it would spice things up to something a little different than my usual videos the problem once again here is the time management when you've got two parties who have to work together i see that with my collaboration with rode electronics it's just hard finding times when both have time to work on things together so this production time stretches out quite a bit and that is i mentioned that like a thousand times already there's problem for me because i have a tight release schedule a production schedule so it is very difficult to get those things sorted out but if at some point this thing works out with another creator i'm definitely open to it i actually talked with bit looney which you should definitely subscribe to uh he has an awesome channel he did an amazing led wall i think a month back much more insane than any led wall i ever did and he knows lots more about programming than me he studied that in university which i did not and he asked me at the beginning of the year if we would like to work on a collaboration with the new teensy i think to create a diy oscilloscope and back then i was like yeah that sounds like a very good idea but i was working on so much stuff that i didn't have the time and i'm not sure if he started programming for the teensy anyway no idea but it was still an interesting project but it's hard for two people to manage that and get it in line with my production so hard to do but maybe in the future it will work out and hopefully be a good video and spice things up a bit okay next part of the question can you make a top 5 10 video with electronic safety features for homemade projects that run on low voltage like how when to use and install fuses flyback diodes heat sinks general practice for schematics etc i'm always worried about burning up my house or get electrocuted thanks for a great channel i'm sorry that i laughed at this point because the worry of burning up your house or get electrocuted is good to have i would say you should not be feel this with electronics and i actually really like the idea of such a top 5 10 list with advices so it is definitely going on my white board behind me behind the camera and i will see when i get to it i like this idea uh top 510 i think i haven't done something like that yet so let's see how viewers will react to that and i really like the topic so yep definitely happening sometime not sure when i never make promises that way but hopefully soon david asks what other things interest you besides electronics um lots of things i actually try out i love to try out new things um i started doing climbing and swimming at the beginning of the year i still do that i go one time per week swimming one time climbing and i go two times to the gym so i obviously enjoy sports and i also love to watch movies at home or in the cinema which is currently a bit problematic because of the situation we're in and then i also love to play video games i just finished the last of us part two which is a quite controversial game um if you're into that scene um but i really enjoyed it actually um this story um there were some story choices which are hard to swallow i would say but it was still a fantastic game from start to end and i would certainly give it an eight or nine out of ten it's not perfect but it was a lot of fun to play but i don't want to give you a review of the game and and other things i like working on my sims on going outside my garden i grow plants and to care for the garden and other things too many i would say to count them all i'm interested in way too many things i'm also currently learning to play guitar so i think that will even be a video about something guitar related in the near future so i hope people will look forward to that yeah lots of things lots of things so let's just move on to the next question from dean hintz i have enjoyed the videos on solar power actually anything your video is of interest to me thank you very much i think the last video about solar power that is missing is about mppt and mppd charger so i will see when i get to that uh no promises though but it should happen uh not maybe not this year maybe next year but it should come at some point so yeah thank you very much for the feedback thanks for the support and i'm glad that you enjoy my videos next question and the last question from harpon roof hi scots i followed your video for about four years whenever i'm watching your video i'm wondering where your ideas come from and how can you balance your youtube career and your life will you make a list or plan how to build a project and think about what issues may be an obstacle and what will you do when you have a critical problem or something you may not be able to deal with with a new project you're very awesome thanks for your video and inspire my maker life from senior high school so thank you very much for the feedback um it's very nice to read that you got inspired by my videos that i sparked the electronics interest in you for four years now and you still enjoy them so that's awesome and yeah what's was say what you're saying where my ideas come from um just from daily life like problems i face in life or just subjects i'm interested in as an electronics maker as an electronics engineer which i think are interesting for the public um or just things that friends or family should suggest like oh can you make this and i'm like can i make this or we want this in our apartment or house and i'm like let me think about it and just that's just how ideas come to me and balancing my youtube career and my life um yeah time management is like i mentioned before dozens dozens of times it is difficult um but for me my youtube career it is also a lot of fun i don't wake up and say oh i have to make a video so i can get paid so i get money and for me it's like i wake up and i'm like oh today i can talk about that subject because it's super interesting and i will i hope viewers will find it interesting as well because it's such an interesting electronics concept or component or whatever so for me that's a lot of fun in my work and i think that's why it's easier to balance for me with my other life i put lots of time in my youtube stuff but i do enjoy it of course there are parts which are not that great editing also always takes up lots of time and i'm not that i'm not into that too much but it has to be done every work i think has its downsides there is no perfect work but yeah that's that's how i balance it um a plan on how to build a project and think maybe what issue may be an obstacle uh maybe one day i will do a behind-the-scenes video on a project if that is what you're looking for so one day maybe but right now a list or plan um not sure what you mean by that actually and what will you do when you have a critical problem with a new project um because of my schedule i usually do testing whether a project works out before i actually start the production during the week so i currently do not run into such critical problems at the beginning when i started work making youtube videos that was more of a problem but now i think through everything much more and thus i avoid such things and if there's a critical problem i delay the project and do it later and thus i never run into those issues okay with that being said we are done through the patreon comments i hope so i hope i didn't miss anything and yeah just let's head over to twitter and answer a couple of questions and let's see how many i will get through i will not answer them through the list i will just pick out a few which i think are interesting so let's get started the first question from jan trek hi jeremy pascal by the way my name is not jeremy pascal this was a joke in one of my older q a videos people still call me to that day with this name it's not my name my name is also not scots i don't call myself great scots this is actually a reference to back to the future my real name is actually a mystery so i will not tell you but anyway um the question was do you already have a plan to come to mcafee in germany again maybe 2021 if the corona situation makes it clear when what can take place can you let us know i would really like to meet you thanks jan i've been to the maker faire in berlin last year 2019 and i would definitely visit the berlin maker faire in 2022 if it takes place and if i have a date where i go to it i will let everyone know through twitter and facebook maybe one week before i visit so follow me there and you will not miss it next question from mark prietberg what are all the softwares that you use in your workflow of making designing and fabrication process like 3d designing circuit simulation etc and they're actually just two pieces of software which i use now we do not look at the editing site and audio recording side of my production we only look at the electronic stuff and for that i use easy eda for schematics and server design i never do circuit simulation i really do not do that and that is why i do not have a software for that and other than that for the 3d printing part i use fusion of 360 for designing my enclosures and whatnots and yeah of course for the prusas the 3d printers i use i also use the prusa slicer software yeah so basically just easy eda and fusion 360 and prusa slicer for the 3d printers there's nothing else next question from maximilian keefe what is your recording setup like cameras lights etc um i actually upgraded my camera setup i'm looking at it right now it is a sony alpha 7 mark iii i upgraded this about a year ago as an objective i'm not sure if the name is actually objective in english but it is the lens lens is the correct term i think it is the g series from sony with a 24 to 105 millimeter lens what this is what i'm pretty much always using and then i also got up here a small screen where i can see what i'm recording so yeah right now it's focusing on my hand and that's really helpful because the screen of the camera is not that you cannot flip it around it's not a flip screen so you need that and then here i also got a light which is just a soft box which is used for photography and some generic light bulbs nothing special and then i got a tripod from vali max pro so those parts in combination pretty much are the most important things then i also got a voice over microphone and something like here a lavalier microphone which and a recorder which is right beside me from zoom but yeah the camera lens screen tripod and the lights generic ones are the most important stuff i think okay let's move on funny question and question from mikey's lab d-bounds in hardware or software that is a good question let me know your answer to that in the comment section below uh it depends it really depends i think with a rotary encoder i love to do it in hardware with but i think with most of the arduino stuff i do it in software so i think software is my answer next question from not your prime time how much should you spend for your electronics equipment quite a bit the good thing is some stuff like my oscilloscope or back here all the keysight stuff and most of the cycling stuff it's all sponsored from them because um as an electronics equipment manufacturer it makes sense to send me this stuff because i showed in video i i show it in videos i use it in video so it's kind of a promotion for them and of course for me it's great because when i have such good equipment i can show you much more details about what i'm working on and sometimes it makes it easier for the viewer to see what is going on and i have much more capabilities of what i can produce so i think it's a win-win situation for the manufacturer and for me so in the end what i pretty much have to buy by myself wear multimeters all the tools you see screwdrivers pretty much everything i have in my drawers wrenches screwdrivers all that other stuff i actually did a video about what tools and yeah what tools i have in my electronics lab um a few weeks back so watch that video there you can see it all so how much did i spend for all of that it's a good question because in the end this is not not just for my private use it is for my business i would say for the commercial use so um um it's it's hard to say to put a number on this but i think maybe five thousand to ten thousand euro yeah with the 3d printers included yeah then and all that other stuff yeah there are some you sometimes forget how expensive this stuff is then when you work with every day because for me it is really worth it i i use this every day and it's not just in the shelf but i would say maybe 10 000 euro which is of course a lot for a private person an electron electronic enthusiast who just wants to get started but you do not really need all the tools i have because i do this on a much bigger scale on what projects i want to do and what variety i want to do so i have to be pre i have to be prepared for everything and that's why i have so much i think here is a funny last question from twitter how can a german be so softly and smooth while talking like you yeah german is known to be a really harsh language while we are there feeler it sounds to be a really rough language german and because of all the t and uh that we say and it always it sounds to foreigners like uh germany is a very rough language really it is a direct language and for me why i can speak so softly and smooth no idea if everyone sees that like that there are lots of people who say my english is terrible there are lots of people who say my english is fantastic there are lots of people in between like everyone can have an opinion on that yeah so no idea i i don't think i have the usual german accent like many others have some people say it sounds asian some people say it's sounds or what do they say a little bit of a british accent i have no idea it's just the way i talk it's developed this way and lots of people seem to like it lots of people seem to hate it i can't please everyone so okay last but not least let's move on to facebook questions and for that i got 103 questions or comments but that is insane i i cannot answer all of them so i will see which interesting ones i can pick out once again okay um question from bashir akh please do more about programming of those development boards especially arduino because your arduino 1 2 and 3 episodes didn't quite illustrate it thanks for the good work keep it up so sadly i will not go into too much detail about using such uh pro into the programming of those development boards i think with the arduino one two and three and especially my timer video where you learn about the arduino timers i already talked about pretty much all the basics you need to know and then you can extend that knowledge with my basic series about the spi bus the ice cream c bus and all the other buses i talked about which are also included with the arduino so i do not really know what else i should add to that i think that's a really good basic foundation and everything else would just be extended knowledge which like i think i said before lots of time i do not want to tackle i don't want to get too specific i want to give you all the basics but not too much beyond that so i think i covered most of that and i will not do that for the arduino um i'm not sure if i do other videos about other development boards like the pick or which which one did i didn't do which one didn't i do yet i did the arduino esp the texas instrument boards the msp the pick is missing i did the teensy i think so i will see if i do basic guides for other microcontroller development boards but for the arduino not anymore i think rob finlay roloffs asks do you often want to flip your table while working on projects sometimes i would say i would say during project project development from start to finish i think there is at least one time during that production time where i want to say this is why doesn't it work this way why doesn't it do what i wanted to do and i think that's the problem that every maker faces but usually it's just a bit of troubleshooting and then you get your answer and in the end for me most of the time it works out a question from marek zucks do you plan on doing a phd um for now not because youtube just the youtube production takes too much time this is probably this is my full-time job and doing a phd just requires way too much time way too much attention but if one day i say that i want i cannot or do not want to do this youtube youtube thing anymore then it is definitely an option for me to do a phd so maybe in the future but right now it will not happen okay let's search for a last facebook question and i think i will use this one from remo flicky what is your selection of must-have literature um i think he is talking about have literature about electronics and for that um i would say there is not really a must-have um i've learned most of my electronics from i would say the internet's uh youtube videos and that's it basically you can google search so much it's incredible how much you can learn through the internet so literature is nice sometimes to have um i think i have a book which is pretty good which i read through from start to finish which is called uh how is it called i will link it in the video description i have it in my living room that is pretty good and then i also have some books about very specific subjects like blc motors synchronous motors those books are definitely good you can pretty much i'm i can guarantee you can find it in a library uh for a university or something like that so it's not really a must-have i rarely use that those books i read through them once i'm like okay that's some nice knowledge but most of the time for projects or anything the internet offers so much information so i would say there is no must-have literature you can you can learn electronics without it but that's just my opinion okay and with that being said we are done with the q a session i hope you enjoyed it and that is of course not the end because i know you already waiting for this the sequence uh giveaway so the way this works out if you want to participate in my giveaway like i said three are for my patreon supporters one is for all the youtube viewers and you will simply have to comment underneath underneath this video in which you will say i want to enter the giveaway so simply write that sentence even if there are errors or mistakes in your writing it doesn't matter just right i want to enter the giveaway and here's the important part if you are a patreon supporter then make sure to write behind that patreon and then your username from patreon so i can find you there please do not write underneath on the patreon site do not write there just in the youtube comment section so if your patreon supporter just write i want to enter the giveaway patreon your username and you're in um you're in the patreon giveaway and i will find you as soon as the giveaway is over and you will have won i will contact you there other than that as soon as this video will go online i will wait for a week then i will randomly select for winners from youtube i will post that on my community tab so look there i will say this person has one and then you will have to contact me you there is a business email address which you can use and for patreon supporters it's much easier once the week is over i will contact them directly and they will get their price and with that being said i hope you like this q a video i will continue my production as usual it has been a tough first half year of 2020. i think you all know why but for me it all worked out somehow youtube was changing a lot during that time my views dipped and rised a lot during that time it was just a bit chaotic but especially with patreon i still have supporters which financially support me so i can still continue my production even during those chaotic times which i'm very thankful for and yeah that's that's basically all i want to say uh thank you very much for your viewership for your small financial patron supports and i hope the upcoming projects and topics will be very interesting for you and with that being said stay creative and i will see you next timehi there as you might have noticed this is not your typical great scots episode video however you want to call it uh this is an episode of my unscripted q a video series so questions and answers and as you might already have noticed it is unscripted so i will think a lot about what i want to say i will say a lot of um and it's a bit more often a relaxed great scots episode so if that's not your cup of tea then skip this video watch the next one and the point of this video is just me giving you some updates of what is going on and answering your um questions especially from my patreon supporters which i asked and then i also ask you on twitter and facebook so once i'm done with the patreon questions i will move over to twitter and facebook and see how many questions i can answer there but before we start anything i have to say that for this episode i once again got a sponsor um which means i do not get any money but i get products to give away and this time it is from siegeland it is pretty heavy they sent me over a very nice lab bench power supply a programmable dc power supply and i used it a bit uh it's heavy i don't have to say that and i used it a bit it works great it's a great power supply for beginners intermediates for everyone who's into electronics i think and yeah they are giving me the chance to give away four of them so i would say stick around to the end of the video that is when i will say how you can win one of those um but let me just state that three of those are for my patreon supporters and one is for all my youtube viewers so uh now you know about the giveaway but that is not all sigland asked me to announce something it's not really an announcement i think i think this program has been this program of theirs have been online for quite a while so um they want me to tell you about their review program so you can look in the video description there will you there you will find a website to sickland where you can read about this i think and there will also be an email address where you can then submit screenshots and what they basically said they want me to say is that you can submit an honest product review of any sequent instruments you have to websites which have places for customer comments so basically if you ever bought a sickland instrument uh they have the problem that they apparently don't don't have many reviews so if you have an instrument head over to the site where you got it write a review there of course an honest review um if there are bad things about the instrument you should be free to say that if they're good things you are also free to say that that doesn't matter they want an honest review and if you do that you can send in a mail to register which should include a screenshot of your review and a link to your review and also the serial number of your instrument like i said this will also be a written in the video description of this video and if you then end if you send a honest review to sickland um the email address will also be in the video description then you can win a siegeland sds-1104 digital oscilloscope or a sdg 2042x function arbitrary waveform generator so that's stuff you can win that's really nice i think writing an honest product review isn't that hard so yeah if you're in this situation feel free to enter this giveaway of cigland and also stick around to the end of the video for my giveaway so that's enough for the beginning i think let's just move this out of the way for now and let's start off with the questions so for patreon at this time of recording i have 20 comments so 20 questions which i will answer so let's start off with the first question from marcus what was the biggest and most difficult project you have ever done um i think in the beginning the most the biggest and most complicated project was the electric skateboards not the version 2 which i did i think last winter which was the simpler version but i did one from scratch with a small bldc motor and then i have to come up with a gear system a holding system get that to the skateboard and i did a first version which is on youtube you can watch that it's three parts and then i also did a second version for my university which was even better but not on the internet and then i came to this simpler version which i still really like so at the time at the beginning of my youtube stuff this was the most complicated thing to do but i think another candidate for that would be my tesla coil which was quite hard to construct because the time limit for that was really tight i had to get this done right the first time so it wasn't a simple task to do i had lots of time pressure and then i said oh this has to work this way right now and then that was probably from the electronic side much more difficult than the electronic skateboard and for me it was the biggest and complicated project i think so far there are other ones which i i'm not sure if they come close but there where there are some big projects along the way of my youtube journey but i think the tesla coil was really was really the hardest and biggest one so far but let's see what the future brings to me maybe there will be even bigger and more complicated projects okay let's move on to the next question pierre cruz asks was your room messy at one point and how did you have the will to clean it up um my room is constantly messy i think i at right now i'm done with video production always on a friday or saturday and then i immediately start the new project on sunday so there's just a small time gap between projects and that is the time where i basically clean up and my room is completely littered with everything like components around pieces of paper where something is written scripts which i have to change the camera the camera gear it's a mess sometimes but i'm actually a very how do you say it a tidy person i i like order yeah that's very german we like order and when i get the chance i on friday or saturday i clean up everything everything everything goes back to the to its original place and then this repeats over the week and then once again i reset it at the end of the video production so the will for me is just um that i like order i like i like it when it's clean and also for video production it's not very good when you start a new one and everything is still messy from the old project so yeah that was my answer okay next question from conterror what sparked your interest in electronics um i think i said that before electronics was not actually the field i wanted to get into i wanted to get into renewable energies and electronics was just very close to it so i thought okay it's it's still electronics is very widely used and you can get a secure job with that and i liked math and physics so i thought it would be a good fit but what really sparked my interest in the end was an led cube i saw in the internet and i thought how is it possible to control like eight by eight by eight leds um with just a small self-made board and that is the point where i started researching and then i learned about it and i made my own not eight by eight by eight because that is totally insane just from the building aspect not even the controlling aspect and yeah that's how it all started with an led cube okay next question from ben franklin you have posted excellent info on meters thanks thank you a million i have acquired several meters that are marked seals do not open that i would like to replace the dial faces are these fields filled with inert gas can i safely open these and replace the dials ben i'm sorry i actually do not have an answer to that question i haven't worked with such old meters where you got a dial in that department i can sadly not help you maybe google or maybe one of the viewers knows that and writes it in the comment section below and if i see it i will try to highlight it so i hope you get your answer this way but not for me sorry next question from kevin forsythe what is your day job and what are your ultimate career plans um my day job is making such videos um i think it surprises some viewers that this is my day job but for anyone who's into video production web video production and watch my videos i hope it is clear that i put a lot of effort lots of time into the videos they take one video takes 40 to 60 hours to produce and yeah i got one video every week for three weeks and then a one week break so i think from the time aspect it seems like this could be my day job and yes it is and i've been doing this now full time for two years i think still works out perfect perfectly fine i have lots of fun um i i really like interacting with viewers i like reading all your comments and the financial aspect is also satisfying i would say i can finance my life with this so yeah this is my day job so the next part of the question was my ultimate career plans so for now nothing specific is set in stone i will continue doing youtube as long as it is fun for me satisfying the financial aspect is also okay and yeah i think i think that's all you need you need to have fun and the financial aspect has to be right i think that's that's kind of a dream job so those is my career this is my career for now for later i cannot say if youtube doesn't work out anymore no idea i love teaching maybe i will go into teaching maybe i will start a company on electronics engineering something like that not sure i i'm currently way too busy doing these videos and i actually do not have that much time to think about what comes next so let's move on with the next question from luis fernando if you get sponsored by a company to make a big project with unlimited budget would you accept and what would you like to do it depends if the company wants me to do a video about i don't know an electronics project which i'm not interested in then i will gladly um not agree i will disagree i will just do my own thing i will continue doing my own thing but if they say you can do whatever you want then yeah there's definitely a project which involves something like an electric car maybe an electric moped um especially my zimzon which i wanted to electrify for i don't know how long too long and the project is just too big right now to take it on just because of the time aspect so if i had unlimited budget i think i would invest into people who would who would help me with such a project so that i can get it and get it done more quickly and thus stay within my release schedule um that would be awesome i think i would definitely jump on this project opportunity for such an electric vehicle or maybe even something like a go-kart an electric go-cart also on my list which i wanted to do for such a long time but it's just so big such a project and uh there's so much going on behind the scenes which you do not see with all the planning and yeah i have to do this then and then and then and no i don't have time for such a big project because this has to come then and yeah it's it's really a struggle just getting the continuous video flow out but yeah that is my uh big project which i would do um next question from anonym do you have a discord server what do you think about lcr component testers um no i do not have a discord server um and what i do i think about lcl component testers they are pretty handy to have i think i have two and i used them a lot when i didn't have a proper lcr meter which i use right now for testing coils and capacitors but back then i used them for coils and capacitors and their readings were actually quite useful not perfect but useful so i think they do have a place on an electronics hobbyist workbench because they're just way more cheap than a proper lcr meter and there's nothing wrong with using them okay next question from kevin guntner if you were asked to design a commercial product to be put on the markets what would you design and how um um so i actually do not have a good product that i would put on the commercial market right now well i actually have but i'm working with a company on that behind the scenes and that should come out i don't want to make promises but soon i think it will be a product you can get it's not a fully completed project you have to solder the components to the pcb by yourself but i think it is a very handy circuit to have that will be out but other than that right now i don't have a good idea for a consumer products which i would like to get on the markets because when you decide on such a product it has to be a good one because when you put that much time and effort into a product it should it should be worth it in the end from a financial point of view and also from a customer rating kind of view if they're just a handful of customers who are like oh i i really need this then the effort doesn't really make sense so you have to find something that is accepted by the white i would say and will and also is very good in construction so i don't i didn't think about such a topic right now because i'm so much into the video production but maybe for later a good question and how would you do it yeah there are a thousand ways to do it i can't give you a specific answer right now so sorry about that next question from jofito would you consider making longer videos and extending the information depth for some topics sacrificing the quantity of videos you release no it's a it's a sad answer no but no um the problem with such youtube videos i think is that there uh there is not a limit on how long an episode can be i i watch 30 minutes youtube episodes but so far not about electronics about other stuff and there it works because it's got the uh viewers attention but i think for my subjects um my plan is not really like let's say i want to do a basics video um my idea of basics video is not telling you everything because electronics is such a wide field let's take the asynchronous motor for an example i actually all the stuff that is in the asynchronous motor video i didn't actually want to talk about i want i wanted to talk about much more advanced stuff but then you start okay who's watching my videos uh probably maybe beginners who just want to learn who want to get inspired by electronics and are like oh this is cool i i maybe want to find out more about that on my own and use that in a project so the idea for me in my videos is always just sparking interests i give you information which is important which is relevant to the topic but i don't go too deep where it go gets very scary for lots of people and where it gets unappealing i think so my videos do sometimes contain more information than probably other creators offer but it's not super super deep and i'm actually okay with that um because with that i reach a decent audience size i would say and lots of people seem to really enjoy it i get lots of positive feedback all the time of course there are some people who criticize which i'm also okay with i'm glad for all kinds of feedback of course hate is not useful for me but there are also people who hates but other than that just the feedback in general is very positive and of course there are people like you who are like i would love to learn so much more through your videos because you make them i hope you think they are good and you just want more longer videos about a subject in my style so that you can easily learn it or be entertained by it all that matters and yeah but but then again your i think your audience group is um a minority just like my patreon supporters are just a minority we are like uh i have 950 patreon supporters who really care about my production who invest the one dollar at least so that i can continue producing this stuff and i would love to make longer videos for you but from a financial side of you it's just not possible because for me the quantity of videos is also important because with that i have a new sponsorship every time which brings in a bit of money then there's also the ad revenue which also goes up a bit uh with each topic with each video so i cannot really do this one big video a month about a certain topic because it would be too in-depth people would get scared off they would not watch it because in the end um my content is not um as marketable for bigger audiences because i do go into um very specific electronics subjects and not just the general click bait thumbnaily thing on youtube where it's like oh i built the biggest magnets and then i built the biggest magnets and tell you all about it in more theory style stuff in the video i know my videos are usually not very appealing to most people i would say um because it's just so electronics oriented and not daily life oriented which is maybe um more accessible to other viewers so i know this answer is super long and super complicated and i hope i did not say something at the end which was against the first things i say in german it is called vidos present many sepsis pressure but i hope you get what i'm trying to say um longer videos are just not financially possible and i think it would not help getting more people into electronics so i just try to spark your interest with you with my videos give you the necessary and sometimes more details and i basically want you to learn the rest by yourself or by the internet or by books or by university whatever and that is basically my plan and i hope you're okay with that and i hope uh many people like it seems like many people like that and yeah sorry for the long long answer but that is the answer okay next question from eduardo diaz comellas you have made quite a few projects with usb power banks i would find it very useful to power a raspberry or an arduino with a power bank and solar power for 24 7 operation will you do a video on this um not specifically no i i actually just did a portable solar power video so you just take that and add a 5 volt output which i did with the buck boost converter and then you will have to see how to charge up a power bank with that and then you hook in raspberry pi or an arduino up to that so this is something very specific which i think is too specific for video right now because you can take pieces of other videos of mine and put that together on your own so sadly i will not do a video about that sorry um next question from paulo dos santos would you consider useful extending the analog design component on your videos it would be nice to have a more in-depth look at design options and evaluations once again um i think i do not really get the first part would you consider useful extending the analog design components on your videos so i think you want more in-depth information about the analog construction of my videos i will see how that fits in videos how much i can put in there but you would have to give me a proper example of where you missed that because i actually always try to go um in depth on my circuit designs i'm like oh this is there because it works like this and then i go there and this works like this and interacts with this i always try to do that and if i skipped on that on in a video maybe where i drive a mosfet then it is probably just because i talked about uh gate mosfet driving for so long and in so many videos and so in depth that i'm like okay i do not have to repeat this every time so this is actually a good advice if you're watching one of my videos and think oh how did he do that um then it is probably not that well explained in the video because i have done a video before which uh talked about this topic uh in detail or i did lots of projects before where i constantly said uh talked about that and at this point in the newer video i'm like i do not have to repeat this every time so i have 350 videos i'm not sure if you're looking for specific information then just go to the youtube search and like great scots mosfets or great scott igbt and you will certainly find an answer to this question on the design part and i think that that is a comment which i see very often i don't know how he did that in the precise manner so yeah definitely search for that on my channel there's probably lots of information about that that you missed okay moving on to the next question from mikey bg what is your favorite vacation destination um hard to say i've been to not too many vacation places so far last year i went to greece which was awesome the sun climate and nature with the hills and the vegetation was pretty interesting and just a pleasure to be there and but i've not been to too many places but so far there hasn't been a disappointment also there are some great spots in germany as well so i cannot really pick one favorite vacation destination but i will certainly visit greece again i think okay next question about clement heatherway have you ever thought of doing projects with gpib it would be cool to have one that uses gpib for automation and testing in case you don't know i had to look this up gpib is an interface used between pcs and measuring instruments so i think for a professional work environment this is very important if you want to measure something so i will definitely put it on my to-do list and i will see when i got the opportunity to work with such instruments and how i can include that in a video so we will see but i hope it will happen at some point next question from tim loops have you already been into electronics in high school otherwise what else aroused your interest arouse your interest that's a nice way to put it and back then i wasn't really into electronics i was more into from the knowledge side of field i was more into mathematics physics and programming actually more but there it was just simple programming um other than that i was into sports udo which is i'm not sure if that's the english term but it's kind of a martial arts than soccer or football i was into lots of sports i also like playing table tennis basketball all that stuff and then i also enjoyed watching movies playing video games and then also meeting friends going out something like that but not really into electronics that was just a lucky guess from me when i started my after-school life i would say okay the jukebox man says i have no question but thanks for the great videos um thanks a lot for the feedback you're welcome and i hope i can continue making such videos in the future so thanks a lot for your support next question from boss d sorry if i got the name wrong dear mr dear mr great scots what is the largest amount of current you've ever worked with sincerely bus dietscler don't bother about the name okay sorry anyway about the name um i haven't worked with such a huge amount i think in my job field back then it was probably with a three-phase motor which was drawing like maximum 16 amps so it was a small motor i think that was probably the biggest amount so phone power electronics engineer not much very very little current i would say but yeah in university you do not work with such current very often you just talk about it in the end so 16 amps for me not much next question from hannes ever thought about doing a collab i'd love to see a project between you and maybe kamui cosplay in creating a prop with a lipo plus arduino that can do a lot more things than just switching leds on and off i think they are not too far away from saxony um a collapse is definitely interesting i think it would spice things up to something a little different than my usual videos the problem once again here is the time management when you've got two parties who have to work together i see that with my collaboration with rode electronics it's just hard finding times when both have time to work on things together so this production time stretches out quite a bit and that is i mentioned that like a thousand times already there's problem for me because i have a tight release schedule a production schedule so it is very difficult to get those things sorted out but if at some point this thing works out with another creator i'm definitely open to it i actually talked with bit looney which you should definitely subscribe to uh he has an awesome channel he did an amazing led wall i think a month back much more insane than any led wall i ever did and he knows lots more about programming than me he studied that in university which i did not and he asked me at the beginning of the year if we would like to work on a collaboration with the new teensy i think to create a diy oscilloscope and back then i was like yeah that sounds like a very good idea but i was working on so much stuff that i didn't have the time and i'm not sure if he started programming for the teensy anyway no idea but it was still an interesting project but it's hard for two people to manage that and get it in line with my production so hard to do but maybe in the future it will work out and hopefully be a good video and spice things up a bit okay next part of the question can you make a top 5 10 video with electronic safety features for homemade projects that run on low voltage like how when to use and install fuses flyback diodes heat sinks general practice for schematics etc i'm always worried about burning up my house or get electrocuted thanks for a great channel i'm sorry that i laughed at this point because the worry of burning up your house or get electrocuted is good to have i would say you should not be feel this with electronics and i actually really like the idea of such a top 5 10 list with advices so it is definitely going on my white board behind me behind the camera and i will see when i get to it i like this idea uh top 510 i think i haven't done something like that yet so let's see how viewers will react to that and i really like the topic so yep definitely happening sometime not sure when i never make promises that way but hopefully soon david asks what other things interest you besides electronics um lots of things i actually try out i love to try out new things um i started doing climbing and swimming at the beginning of the year i still do that i go one time per week swimming one time climbing and i go two times to the gym so i obviously enjoy sports and i also love to watch movies at home or in the cinema which is currently a bit problematic because of the situation we're in and then i also love to play video games i just finished the last of us part two which is a quite controversial game um if you're into that scene um but i really enjoyed it actually um this story um there were some story choices which are hard to swallow i would say but it was still a fantastic game from start to end and i would certainly give it an eight or nine out of ten it's not perfect but it was a lot of fun to play but i don't want to give you a review of the game and and other things i like working on my sims on going outside my garden i grow plants and to care for the garden and other things too many i would say to count them all i'm interested in way too many things i'm also currently learning to play guitar so i think that will even be a video about something guitar related in the near future so i hope people will look forward to that yeah lots of things lots of things so let's just move on to the next question from dean hintz i have enjoyed the videos on solar power actually anything your video is of interest to me thank you very much i think the last video about solar power that is missing is about mppt and mppd charger so i will see when i get to that uh no promises though but it should happen uh not maybe not this year maybe next year but it should come at some point so yeah thank you very much for the feedback thanks for the support and i'm glad that you enjoy my videos next question and the last question from harpon roof hi scots i followed your video for about four years whenever i'm watching your video i'm wondering where your ideas come from and how can you balance your youtube career and your life will you make a list or plan how to build a project and think about what issues may be an obstacle and what will you do when you have a critical problem or something you may not be able to deal with with a new project you're very awesome thanks for your video and inspire my maker life from senior high school so thank you very much for the feedback um it's very nice to read that you got inspired by my videos that i sparked the electronics interest in you for four years now and you still enjoy them so that's awesome and yeah what's was say what you're saying where my ideas come from um just from daily life like problems i face in life or just subjects i'm interested in as an electronics maker as an electronics engineer which i think are interesting for the public um or just things that friends or family should suggest like oh can you make this and i'm like can i make this or we want this in our apartment or house and i'm like let me think about it and just that's just how ideas come to me and balancing my youtube career and my life um yeah time management is like i mentioned before dozens dozens of times it is difficult um but for me my youtube career it is also a lot of fun i don't wake up and say oh i have to make a video so i can get paid so i get money and for me it's like i wake up and i'm like oh today i can talk about that subject because it's super interesting and i will i hope viewers will find it interesting as well because it's such an interesting electronics concept or component or whatever so for me that's a lot of fun in my work and i think that's why it's easier to balance for me with my other life i put lots of time in my youtube stuff but i do enjoy it of course there are parts which are not that great editing also always takes up lots of time and i'm not that i'm not into that too much but it has to be done every work i think has its downsides there is no perfect work but yeah that's that's how i balance it um a plan on how to build a project and think maybe what issue may be an obstacle uh maybe one day i will do a behind-the-scenes video on a project if that is what you're looking for so one day maybe but right now a list or plan um not sure what you mean by that actually and what will you do when you have a critical problem with a new project um because of my schedule i usually do testing whether a project works out before i actually start the production during the week so i currently do not run into such critical problems at the beginning when i started work making youtube videos that was more of a problem but now i think through everything much more and thus i avoid such things and if there's a critical problem i delay the project and do it later and thus i never run into those issues okay with that being said we are done through the patreon comments i hope so i hope i didn't miss anything and yeah just let's head over to twitter and answer a couple of questions and let's see how many i will get through i will not answer them through the list i will just pick out a few which i think are interesting so let's get started the first question from jan trek hi jeremy pascal by the way my name is not jeremy pascal this was a joke in one of my older q a videos people still call me to that day with this name it's not my name my name is also not scots i don't call myself great scots this is actually a reference to back to the future my real name is actually a mystery so i will not tell you but anyway um the question was do you already have a plan to come to mcafee in germany again maybe 2021 if the corona situation makes it clear when what can take place can you let us know i would really like to meet you thanks jan i've been to the maker faire in berlin last year 2019 and i would definitely visit the berlin maker faire in 2022 if it takes place and if i have a date where i go to it i will let everyone know through twitter and facebook maybe one week before i visit so follow me there and you will not miss it next question from mark prietberg what are all the softwares that you use in your workflow of making designing and fabrication process like 3d designing circuit simulation etc and they're actually just two pieces of software which i use now we do not look at the editing site and audio recording side of my production we only look at the electronic stuff and for that i use easy eda for schematics and server design i never do circuit simulation i really do not do that and that is why i do not have a software for that and other than that for the 3d printing part i use fusion of 360 for designing my enclosures and whatnots and yeah of course for the prusas the 3d printers i use i also use the prusa slicer software yeah so basically just easy eda and fusion 360 and prusa slicer for the 3d printers there's nothing else next question from maximilian keefe what is your recording setup like cameras lights etc um i actually upgraded my camera setup i'm looking at it right now it is a sony alpha 7 mark iii i upgraded this about a year ago as an objective i'm not sure if the name is actually objective in english but it is the lens lens is the correct term i think it is the g series from sony with a 24 to 105 millimeter lens what this is what i'm pretty much always using and then i also got up here a small screen where i can see what i'm recording so yeah right now it's focusing on my hand and that's really helpful because the screen of the camera is not that you cannot flip it around it's not a flip screen so you need that and then here i also got a light which is just a soft box which is used for photography and some generic light bulbs nothing special and then i got a tripod from vali max pro so those parts in combination pretty much are the most important things then i also got a voice over microphone and something like here a lavalier microphone which and a recorder which is right beside me from zoom but yeah the camera lens screen tripod and the lights generic ones are the most important stuff i think okay let's move on funny question and question from mikey's lab d-bounds in hardware or software that is a good question let me know your answer to that in the comment section below uh it depends it really depends i think with a rotary encoder i love to do it in hardware with but i think with most of the arduino stuff i do it in software so i think software is my answer next question from not your prime time how much should you spend for your electronics equipment quite a bit the good thing is some stuff like my oscilloscope or back here all the keysight stuff and most of the cycling stuff it's all sponsored from them because um as an electronics equipment manufacturer it makes sense to send me this stuff because i showed in video i i show it in videos i use it in video so it's kind of a promotion for them and of course for me it's great because when i have such good equipment i can show you much more details about what i'm working on and sometimes it makes it easier for the viewer to see what is going on and i have much more capabilities of what i can produce so i think it's a win-win situation for the manufacturer and for me so in the end what i pretty much have to buy by myself wear multimeters all the tools you see screwdrivers pretty much everything i have in my drawers wrenches screwdrivers all that other stuff i actually did a video about what tools and yeah what tools i have in my electronics lab um a few weeks back so watch that video there you can see it all so how much did i spend for all of that it's a good question because in the end this is not not just for my private use it is for my business i would say for the commercial use so um um it's it's hard to say to put a number on this but i think maybe five thousand to ten thousand euro yeah with the 3d printers included yeah then and all that other stuff yeah there are some you sometimes forget how expensive this stuff is then when you work with every day because for me it is really worth it i i use this every day and it's not just in the shelf but i would say maybe 10 000 euro which is of course a lot for a private person an electron electronic enthusiast who just wants to get started but you do not really need all the tools i have because i do this on a much bigger scale on what projects i want to do and what variety i want to do so i have to be pre i have to be prepared for everything and that's why i have so much i think here is a funny last question from twitter how can a german be so softly and smooth while talking like you yeah german is known to be a really harsh language while we are there feeler it sounds to be a really rough language german and because of all the t and uh that we say and it always it sounds to foreigners like uh germany is a very rough language really it is a direct language and for me why i can speak so softly and smooth no idea if everyone sees that like that there are lots of people who say my english is terrible there are lots of people who say my english is fantastic there are lots of people in between like everyone can have an opinion on that yeah so no idea i i don't think i have the usual german accent like many others have some people say it sounds asian some people say it's sounds or what do they say a little bit of a british accent i have no idea it's just the way i talk it's developed this way and lots of people seem to like it lots of people seem to hate it i can't please everyone so okay last but not least let's move on to facebook questions and for that i got 103 questions or comments but that is insane i i cannot answer all of them so i will see which interesting ones i can pick out once again okay um question from bashir akh please do more about programming of those development boards especially arduino because your arduino 1 2 and 3 episodes didn't quite illustrate it thanks for the good work keep it up so sadly i will not go into too much detail about using such uh pro into the programming of those development boards i think with the arduino one two and three and especially my timer video where you learn about the arduino timers i already talked about pretty much all the basics you need to know and then you can extend that knowledge with my basic series about the spi bus the ice cream c bus and all the other buses i talked about which are also included with the arduino so i do not really know what else i should add to that i think that's a really good basic foundation and everything else would just be extended knowledge which like i think i said before lots of time i do not want to tackle i don't want to get too specific i want to give you all the basics but not too much beyond that so i think i covered most of that and i will not do that for the arduino um i'm not sure if i do other videos about other development boards like the pick or which which one did i didn't do which one didn't i do yet i did the arduino esp the texas instrument boards the msp the pick is missing i did the teensy i think so i will see if i do basic guides for other microcontroller development boards but for the arduino not anymore i think rob finlay roloffs asks do you often want to flip your table while working on projects sometimes i would say i would say during project project development from start to finish i think there is at least one time during that production time where i want to say this is why doesn't it work this way why doesn't it do what i wanted to do and i think that's the problem that every maker faces but usually it's just a bit of troubleshooting and then you get your answer and in the end for me most of the time it works out a question from marek zucks do you plan on doing a phd um for now not because youtube just the youtube production takes too much time this is probably this is my full-time job and doing a phd just requires way too much time way too much attention but if one day i say that i want i cannot or do not want to do this youtube youtube thing anymore then it is definitely an option for me to do a phd so maybe in the future but right now it will not happen okay let's search for a last facebook question and i think i will use this one from remo flicky what is your selection of must-have literature um i think he is talking about have literature about electronics and for that um i would say there is not really a must-have um i've learned most of my electronics from i would say the internet's uh youtube videos and that's it basically you can google search so much it's incredible how much you can learn through the internet so literature is nice sometimes to have um i think i have a book which is pretty good which i read through from start to finish which is called uh how is it called i will link it in the video description i have it in my living room that is pretty good and then i also have some books about very specific subjects like blc motors synchronous motors those books are definitely good you can pretty much i'm i can guarantee you can find it in a library uh for a university or something like that so it's not really a must-have i rarely use that those books i read through them once i'm like okay that's some nice knowledge but most of the time for projects or anything the internet offers so much information so i would say there is no must-have literature you can you can learn electronics without it but that's just my opinion okay and with that being said we are done with the q a session i hope you enjoyed it and that is of course not the end because i know you already waiting for this the sequence uh giveaway so the way this works out if you want to participate in my giveaway like i said three are for my patreon supporters one is for all the youtube viewers and you will simply have to comment underneath underneath this video in which you will say i want to enter the giveaway so simply write that sentence even if there are errors or mistakes in your writing it doesn't matter just right i want to enter the giveaway and here's the important part if you are a patreon supporter then make sure to write behind that patreon and then your username from patreon so i can find you there please do not write underneath on the patreon site do not write there just in the youtube comment section so if your patreon supporter just write i want to enter the giveaway patreon your username and you're in um you're in the patreon giveaway and i will find you as soon as the giveaway is over and you will have won i will contact you there other than that as soon as this video will go online i will wait for a week then i will randomly select for winners from youtube i will post that on my community tab so look there i will say this person has one and then you will have to contact me you there is a business email address which you can use and for patreon supporters it's much easier once the week is over i will contact them directly and they will get their price and with that being said i hope you like this q a video i will continue my production as usual it has been a tough first half year of 2020. i think you all know why but for me it all worked out somehow youtube was changing a lot during that time my views dipped and rised a lot during that time it was just a bit chaotic but especially with patreon i still have supporters which financially support me so i can still continue my production even during those chaotic times which i'm very thankful for and yeah that's that's basically all i want to say uh thank you very much for your viewership for your small financial patron supports and i hope the upcoming projects and topics will be very interesting for you and with that being said stay creative and i will see you next time