HACKER Q&A
📣 iamflimflam1

Undiscovered electronics/maker YouTube channels


I've now got a semi successful YouTube channel. One of the things that helped me out at the beginning was other more popular YouTubers surfacing up my videos to their audiences.

I'm looking to pay back some of that and want to find some good undiscovered content. There's lots of people posting really good technical content and they just aren't pushed out by "the algorithm".

Maybe the production values aren't great, the audio is not great or it's just very amateurish, but if the content is good then I'm interested.

I'm not really interested in people who already have thousands of subs, I'm looking for the guys who are getting a few views on their videos and deserve more.


  👤 testmasterflex Accepted Answer ✓
Hey I got some help from some of your videos to build https://loodio.com so thanks for that Atomic!

👤 Havoc
Already has 4k subs but thought this one is promising

Free hand soldering a BGA ram chip onto a raspberry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pW4_nqcIWA


👤 wiseleo
Necroware. Only 30000 subscribers but the videos he published are amazing. :)

👤 acegopher
Going through my subscriptions, it's sad to see so many with talent, even those with lots of subscribers, not having posted a video in years.

Here are some I subscribe to that seem to be still active. You could see if your audience might like:

https://www.youtube.com/@peterryseck

https://www.youtube.com/@AndersNielsenAA

https://www.youtube.com/@jsincoherency

https://www.youtube.com/@6502Nerd

https://www.youtube.com/@hjalfi

https://www.youtube.com/@LucidScience

https://www.youtube.com/@skyriverSat

https://www.youtube.com/@slu467

https://www.youtube.com/@taylor.galbraith


👤 fimdomeio
Scanlime. last video is from two years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/@scanlime/videos


👤 CamperBob2
Phil's Lab at https://www.youtube.com/@PhilsLab is a very underrated channel, especially if you've ever struggled trying to wrap your head around Kalman filter techniques. Highly recommend that one.

The Signal Path isn't that obscure but there may still be some test gear nerds who haven't run across it: https://www.youtube.com/@Thesignalpath

Same is true for Marco Reps: https://www.youtube.com/@reps

FesZ Electronics at https://www.youtube.com/@FesZElectronics has some great coverage of analog/RF basics, as does W2AEW: https://www.youtube.com/@w2aew/videos

Yes, most of these folks have thousands of subs, but there's a reason for that: they're pretty awesome.


👤 jawerty
Not sure if this is relevant for a maker Youtube channel but I recently (past 6 weeks) started a live coding channel where I code projects from scratch (various topics from Machine Learning, Web scraping, web dev to general software engineering). I try to walk through my thought process while keeping it funny. So far getting some good feedback

The channel if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTtYLn03CmwX-PUfZ3RF0A


👤 ejp
Here are the smallest ones on my subscription list.

No idea where I found this - brand new channel. The first video earned a sub immediately. https://www.youtube.com/@Scott_dgl

Seen here on HN, followed immediately. <4k subs currently. https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingIsHacked

17k subs, high quality, but pretty small still. And the detailed focus on the main project is great. https://www.youtube.com/@StevenBennettMakes


👤 chubs
A friend restores ancient computers: https://www.youtube.com/@brfff

👤 diydsp
https://youtube.com/diydsp

~1k subs. Mostly electronic audio and instrument design and construction. Almost all recorded between 11pm and 1am.


👤 inamberclad

👤 magicalhippo
[delayed]

👤 Marthinwurer
Zack Freedman is pretty good.

How to Make Everything is bootstrapping civilization from the stone age, so that's pretty neat.


👤 gaze
Adam Demuth - https://youtu.be/HdJkZcyDQ4A?si=DcRBZfMe4Ei-Fq5Q

Absolutely brilliant tool maker and grinding expert. Very good teacher, too.


👤 robbiet480
Can't say enough good things about the following:

https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections (deep dives on tech/science related topics)

https://www.youtube.com/@DankPods (laughing at terrible MP3 players from the 2000s and some other good content)

https://www.youtube.com/@SilverCymbal (owns a big piece of property in NH and talks about upgrades he does to his house)

https://www.youtube.com/@CathodeRayDude (plays around with 2000s video and computing equipment)

https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry (discusses Asian technology related topics, has amazing videos that taught me everything I know about ASML and EUV)

https://www.youtube.com/@ModernVintageGamer (video game topics, reverse engineering/jailbreaking of consoles)

https://www.youtube.com/@MachoNachoProductions (video game console modding)

https://www.youtube.com/@TheRetroFuture (Japanese handheld console finds)

https://www.youtube.com/@RetroGameCorps (modern day handheld emulator hardware for older platforms/playing ROMs)

https://www.youtube.com/@WulffDen (similar to previous)

https://www.youtube.com/@TTTHEFINEPRINTTT (a new one for me, lives in his converted van that he plays PC games on and streams on Twitch, talks about van life and mods and such)

https://www.youtube.com/@CraftComputing (server software/hardware builds and reviews)

https://www.youtube.com/@JeffGeerling (lotta Raspberry Pi content but also general electronics)

https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering (channel starring the previous YouTuber and his dad who is a longtime radio engineer, discussing a lot of engineering and electronics stuff)

https://www.youtube.com/@clabretro (new for me but he's been recently playing around with a lot of SunRay hotdesking stuff and things like overlaying text onto RG-5 carried video that he sends all over his house)

https://www.youtube.com/@CrosstalkSolutions (lotta networking topics, especially Unifi/Ubiquiti)