An Interview with Great Scott

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

 

 

Image via YouTube on Scott’s Patreon video