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Botmatrix Youtube Channel
Hi Guys & Gals!
I wanted to let you all know that after a long hiatus I'm spinning up my Youtube channel again! I'm shifting over to my new alias: Botmatrix. From here on in the channel will be dedicated to this awesome community and will continue to be a place where I share my electronics and robotics side projects. The content will be mostly hardware related with a lot of ARC & ARC (mobile) interaction.
I have a number of Project Showcases in the queue that I'd like to share and a few tutorials I'd like to do (I still owe someone an RGB LED tutorial ;D ). I'm very open to requests and ideas for videos if you have any suggestions. Also, if you'd like to be added as a featured channel, please let me know! I've already added ez-robot and a few of our community members to the list.
The link to my channel is: Here
Please subscribe and comment if you're interested!
I'm working toward to getting a custom URL for the channel, A new logo design, and a few other changes. I'll update this thread once the changes start happening.
P.S. I won't be able to get this channel going again without your support and involvement. There are too many distractions out there for me. This community is where I belong and where I receive the most genuine satisfaction, and I really desire to be more involved.
@jeremie,
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please share some details on your wheelchair base robot ideas
Thanks, Frank
@Jeremie, It's a little late but here is my workbench.
There is Spock (JD) with his Phaser, some tiny boxing gloves (hum?), a an ioTiny, a big battery, a Power Base with a built in switch (a little easier than what Patrick did), a customized Adventure Bot, Data's upper torso and lower torso and a Halloween Pirate Skelton named Captain Sisko of the Pirate ship Defiant!
Hopefully Captain Sisko will be ready for Trick-or-Treat this year!
Right on Justin! Looks like a dreadful Captain and his loyal crew
I didn't realize you made a Spock JD, that's awesome! I mean I like your other bots but my favorite is Spock JD + Phaser (set to stun).
You should totally do a video of Spock jd!
Just subbed your channel too...
Thanks for the subs guys, I really do appreciate it!
I've been dragging my heels these days in the video content creation category due to a few challenges that I need to find a good solution to. Maybe you guys can help me out!
Here they are:
I need a fast way to create visually appealing Video title screens (which will be the thumbnails for the videos). I am familiar with vector programs (inkscape and corel draw).
I need an easy way to listed to royalty free music on my way to and from the office to evaluate for videos. I use an iPhone for my music. I do have the Jamendo app but it's hard to find the royalty free stuff. Maybe the Youtube royalty free music list......
I need a new logo to suite my channel rebrand to Botmatrix. My ideas so far include a robot face that is combined with a dot matrix printer, some sort of variation on the Autobot Matrix of leadership, or an update to my old Elite Gamers logo that I currently have.
Hey Jeremie....creating video title screens can be a tedious task, so I guess either you will have to put the work in and create them yourself, or you could use some templates to start from! This would save you some time to stay focused on editing and putting out content, rather than getting stuck fiddling around endlessly without getting anything done! Renderforest has some nice Video Templates that will not cost you a fortune and could be a fun point to get started!
https://www.renderforest.com/templates
For the Audio, there are quiet a few sites offering royalty free music, most of them have a fee for signing up for their sites though...the best way to get started should be You Tubes own library, which you might have already found!
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
Logo design is a tough one if you are not really into drawing yourself...I would personally think that you should collect a bunch of appealing images and get some friend that either has interest in drawing or studies at art college to do the final rendering of your idea...maybe you can trade it in to help that person with some electronic stuff or something that matches your skillset!
Keep it up...it's fun and will be rewarding in the end!
Thanks for advice @Mickey666Maus I'll definitely check those out! I was familiar with Youtube's library but I haven't given it a chance yet. I just assumed that those tracks would be over played and haven't really looked into it yet. I think I'll give it go this week.
As much as I'd like to do a logo on my own, my wife is a web/graphic designer, so I'll likely have her help me with out with it. I just need to give her a good visual concept.