Everyone who posts here would like as many people as possible to see it. Imagine the chaos if the hundreds of thousands of posts on this forum were all repeated in every single forum section that had the slightest relevance. In the future, please pick the single best forum section for your topic and post only there. The "Exhibition/Gallery" section of this thread is clearly the most appropriate.
Hi GoForSmoke,
Thank you for your advice. My dad is an engineer and helps me with these videos and to learn things. I would appreciate it if you can share some specific feedback about what you didn't like about my videos. It will help me learn a few things. What do you want me to step back? Did I say something wrong in the videos?
I am doing this for learning and any help and feedback would be appreciated.
HitRatio:
... What do you want me to step back? Did I say something wrong in the videos?
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Hiya Hit,
I'm not GfS by a long shot, but I too think you should slow down, particularly on the marketing of your website aspect. This is not the place to build a large You Tube audience. A single thread should be all it takes to win any viewers that are available. But here's a secret - many of us are old, and prefer the written word and clear diagrams. I know I need to be extremely motivated to watch an instructional video!
Now you DO have a huge target audience. Some are here, and will spread the word, but others live in the other sites, such as Facebook and Instructables. Go seek them all out, and soon you'll be the King of Circuits.
Thank you for your suggestions. I played a lot with Arduino for a long time. I think Arduino helped me fall in love with Electronics. I did feel that there were many concepts that were too hard to understand, but once I understood it, I realised I could make it easy for others to understand.
I used to read a lot of posts on these forums, but hadn't posted anything. Recently, I decided to make lots of tutorial videos so I can share things I know. It may help other kids like me see things easily. I know a lot of kids start their electronics journey on Arduino.
My goal is not to market any youtube channel, but to just share what I know. (Even if I am just 12)
In the future, I will reduce my posts here and just drop a note when I post a new video.
All you people are very helpful, and I have learned a lot from you. I don't mean to annoy anyone here.
If you want to direct these videos to a younger audience, remember not everyone has access to the tools you are using.
Older audiences may not not be too open to take direction from a younger person, unfortunately that can be a problem.
Maybe slow down and present your topics at a lower level (I cannot believe I am saying this to a 12 year old).
Use a toolset that kids can access.
A simple but useful project captures your audience’s attention and is far better than some abstract or complicated thing that is too far above their starting out capabilities.
Keep on with your education (in all areas), you will be very successful and remember to be a kid for a few more years.
I also generally prefer written tutorials to videos because it allows me to scan/search for the exact information I need very quickly. It is also much more search engine-friendly. The exception is something like a soldering tutorial where video really does help. One thing I really like is when video creators add a "table of contents" to the description of longer videos with links to jump to the various sections. Here's an example of a video with a nice "table of contents":
The younger generation seems to really like video. I don't really understand it, but maybe that's just because I'm old (at least relative to HitRatio). Everyone has their own way of learning and I think it's great if HitRatio's videos can help people learn electronics.
Maybe they will let you use Arduino in science labs. We had nothing like it in my school time, oscilloscope and slide rules.
Push hard on your math, spend extra time and read ahead in your book so if you have a question you will know to get an answer in class. Memorize squares out to 20 and refresh that, the Pythagorean relationship pops up a lot and it's good to know that a triangle with sides 12, 13, and 5 will be square on the 12-5 corner. Whole number Pythagorean solutions pop up even on the SAT so start getting ready now. Knowing cubes is not as useful but worth it out to 10. If you know something when you see it, you just beat everyone who has to look it up including coulda-been-you. There's nature and then there's nurture, you are entering your peak nurture time to dial up your own potential just don't get overconfident and always be looking to learn.
What I wish I had learned is Vedic Math from India. It can save time on tests and doing homework, break dumb reliance on a calculator, let you multiply 2 multidigit numbers as fast as writing the answer down if you're really sharp. Had I known that I would have scored higher on my SAT. I did watch a couple of intros and turned into algebra it works, 85 x 31 = (8B + 5A)(3B + 1A) where A=1 and B=10. The Vedic method lets you do small steps in your head and leave a trail of digits that's the answer. It's worth learning if you're not a savant though you may want to save time for a new hobby of memorizing primes.
--- remember not everyone has access to the tools you are using.
Unfortunately, I only have access to my Dad's software and hardware lab. I will need to continue using whatever he uses for the videos. However, I am trying to make the videos vey simple so anyone can follow it with other tools.
--- and remember to be a kid for a few more years.
Electronics is fun for me. I also play a lot of video games like Fortnite... and Soccer and Basketball at school. However, I get to unlock my video game time with project time with my Dad in the week.
--- The younger generation seems to really like video. I don't really understand it, but maybe that's just because I'm old
I find it faster to keep recording what I am doing. If I had to write a tutorial for all the steps, I think it would take me very long and many many pages.
--- One thing I really like is when video creators add a "table of contents"
That's a great idea. I will learn how to do this and add it to my videos.
--- Push hard on your math
I am still studying basic Math at school. I was looking at the inverse kinematics equations for the robot hand, and most of it looked very strange. Actually, I find concepts of Artificial Intelligence much simpler to understand. My dad said that we will play with AI for programming the robot arm. AI seems to have a lot less math. I still need to start Trigonometry at school next year, so it looks like I need to find other ways to program the robot.
Look into the Vedic Math then. You don't need to know algebra to use it. You can amaze teachers and get answers quicker.
Just hide it for at least a year, don't show off what you do just use it while you get sharp.
Are you doing the same old word problems or are you getting pre-algebra term learning about points and lines, basic fundamental stuff that maybe seems pointless and boring? This is like building muscle by lifting weights, it gets -easier- if you keep at it and just ahead of class by reading ahead so you know at least halfways what's being shown before you walk in.
If you want to be a EE, you need higher math and being only 12 means you can still catch that ship. Calculus in HS gives you 4 semesters to learn what college shovels at you in 2. That reading ahead thing? That's a must in college, ask your Dad,
I will look into Vedic Math. Unfortunately, the school system in India is very result focused. Everyone is interested in higher marks, and care less about application of Math. Yes, the math problems are word problems, mostly random and boring.
I am looking forward to learn Trigonometry and also Calculus, which I know is used in AI also. I think projects like the one I am doing will really show me how to use math.
HitRatio:
That's a great idea. I will learn how to do this and add it to my videos.
When you add &t=nnns (where nnn is the video timestamp in seconds) to the end of the video URL. opening that URL will jump to that timestamp in the video. You can also get the URL by pausing the video at the point where you want the link to jump to, clicking "Share", and then checking the box next to "Start at..."
HitRatio:
I will look into Vedic Math. Unfortunately, the school system in India is very result focused. Everyone is interested in higher marks, and care less about application of Math. Yes, the math problems are word problems, mostly random and boring.
The Vedic Math is -old- more than 1000 years old tradition, these are the people who came up with the concept of a number 0. These are the people who the Arabs indirectly got algebra from. The methods are based on how numbers work, applications of math themselves.
It is not some new political thing of the modern Indian educational system.
As long as your system is giving you pap, you might as well look this up and learn something real.
It depends. 12 in 6th grade or 7th, 7th pre-algebra and up allows calculus in HS if there's a class at all. Otherwise it's catch it when you take engineering or science later on.
12 is when they gave my class ‘The Test’. The Test determined the track we would be on for the rest of our school years, and well, beyond if one didn’t take steps to correct for this failed social experiment. HR, I know it seems boring, but math really is the key to all science, engineering and technology in general.
It was an evil system. I transferred schools and was underwater in math all through high school. Made up for it in college by taking at least 1 math class every semester. My advisor angrily asked me why I was taking topology - he said it would never have any application to chemistry.
