Five Interesting Things! July 2018 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / projects

author: Hugoneus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2018, 02:47:22 pm
content: You can watch the video here: [33 Minutes]youtu.be/cWkgWCxhJJkThe Signal Pathwww.TheSignalPath.comwww.YouTube.com/TheSignalPath

author: TiN
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2018, 03:02:09 pm
content: Will it be a monthly thing? Love the idea.

author: Hugoneus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2018, 03:03:08 pm
content: Quote from: TiN on July 09, 2018, 03:02:09 pmHehe... I'll do my best.

author: Hugoneus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2018, 03:04:41 pm
content: One other thing, I am trying to see how I can get the channel to a new milestone of 100k subscribers. I just don't think a channel focused on more advanced electronic topics can hit those numbers. At the same time, I don't want to sacrifice the type of content for the sake of subscribers.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2018, 03:14:35 pm
content: Use a different prefix or tag for the "advanced" and "not so advanced" topics?

author: TiN
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2018, 03:20:32 pm
content: I'd think you don't have to worry about subscribers, they will come along just fine.There are multiple channels that doing basic electronics stuff, but TSP is special for me in a way, that it covers topics that are more advanced of usual beginner "Arduino this, AVR that" stuff , but not as yet narrow-niche scientific stuff that gray beards in lab only care about.There are should be many folks who are not beginners in electronics already, but still find something new to learn, and TSP's scope fits this very well. My day job involve high speed digital/performance design, my hobby tailor into analog precision design, but nothing RF or optical, so I learned a lot from your videos on these fields, even just instrument repair vids.When I started watching your RF-related videos years ago, most of the time I was like "what he say, insertion loss, 20db of attenuation? what?", but now I picked up a thing or two just from videos and little research. Presentation and fun experiments are also bigto make confusing math practical.And I like long videos that actually manage to show something useful, rather than "modern trend" with 5 sentence 5 minute glimpse!

author: Hugoneus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 09, 2018, 10:54:42 pm
content: Thank you all for your feedback.

author: _Wim_
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2018, 10:39:27 am
content: For me personally, do not change anything, I like your channel a lot just the way it is!But to gain more subscribers AND remain on an "advanced" level, you could broaden the type of subjects. The vids from "Applied Science" are typically also quite advanced, but cover topics from optical, chemical, electrical, software and mechanical nature... I think many of his subscribers are not interested in all of his topics, but do like his way of presenting, detailed knowledge and experimentation (so quite comparable to your channel in that way). I personally also like the fact he shows all of his failures, as these are often more interesting to learn why than the successes.

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2018, 11:17:31 am
content: I think your advanced content hits a good niche for me. There is not much in this way of content on YouTube and I like seeing it because RF is my least experienced field of electronics. I get confronted with some RF as part of my work like antennas for things or EMI, but never built any serious RF projects(but have done plenty of high speed digital, analog, power etc).Perhaps you can find some RF topics that are not well explained by any popular youtubers and turn it into a series of videos. Possibly being designed to be condensed enough to fit into 5 minute videos with lab bench examples in each one. The YouTube algorithm will like regularly uploaded videos with high enagement. Your long videos are sometimes too slow to get trough(short attention span of people)The chemistry stuff I personally would watch since I occasionally watch videos from NurdRage and NileRed, but in general there does not seam to be many high quality chemistry channels. Perhaps you can bridge the gap a bit by involving some electrochemistry?But I would not worry about the subscriber numbers too much. When you are not making a living off your channel it doesn't really matter what the growth of your channel is. Just make the content you enjoy making, the time you put in making the video is easily worth it when you look in to how many hours of entertainment those many thousands of views resulted in per video.

author: Andrey_irk
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2018, 01:45:55 am
content: It's a pity when you see a channel with a kid opening kinder surprise eggs gets millons of subscribers and a unique technical channel cannot get even 100k.But you shouldn't give up. You have an amazing channel. You give us an opportunity to have a look at the equipment the vast majority won't be able to come across in entire life and cover very interesting topics. I have a degree in radioelectronics, but in your videos I find stuff I've never heard about.The other day I was watching a video on Keysight's channel (which was a record of some seminar on oscilloscopes) and the presenter advised people to watch your channel. That means something!