The Amp Hour

An Interview with Great Scott

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Welcome, Scott of the Great Scott YouTube channel!

  • The channel started October of 2013. YouTube in Germany is more focused on gaming and non-electronics channels.
  • Scott's job training started in 2011. He works in the electrical power industry. 
  • Apprenticeship in Germany has a bunch of different names. One of them is einer ausbildung. The one that Scott did was duales studium.
  • The electric longboard project was 10 - 20 hours of building/prep! The controller uses a wii numchuck and it communicates via an attiny85 (with an RF chip). The Xcarve was also used for the mechanical portion. 
  • German distributors 
    • Conrad.de has a component window, as well as other home automation type equipment.
    • Scott buys most components on eBay.
    • Chris asked if he had used Ragworm for boards.
    • The mentioned 7 segment display project
    • Scott is an expert soldering with perfboard (see the intro to each video as an example). The mapping program Lochmaster helps plan out  spread it
    • Audio amplifier video
    • Scott's town does not have any hackerspaces. CCC is held in Hamburg.
    • Beginners are a larger portion of the audience. The recent electronics basics video goes over brushless motors. Scott things the Afrotechmods video on amps vs volts is a great start.
    • Scott started with op amps and encourages users to do the same.
    • The 555 timer contest was back in 2011. Analog Tom's servo videos blew Chris away.
      • Many thanks to Scott for being on the show! You can follow @GreatScottLab on Twitter and support on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/GreatScott

       

       

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