Making a YouTube Subscriber Levelometer
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2018
- Isn't it a hassle to keep checking how many subscribers you have? What if you could have something hung up on the wall which will track your subscribers, and display it in an at least passably attractive way? Introducing the UA-cam Subscriber Levelometer!
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Loved the project, the editing, the idea... everything! Well done man!!!
Giaco Whatever bravo
You could use the manometer as a roll over counter for the 0 to 1000 scale counter!
I was looking in to that. 4kg / cm2 is quite a lot of pressure to generate in such a small box. The gauge itself would be too small to house a servo to drive the indicator directly. He would be better looking for a vintage volt gauge. That would be simple to drive.
Maxx B I was thinking a sub-micro servo might fit. The voltage coil from a volt meter would fit for sure. Have you seen how small the radios and servos are getting on the indoor microlights? One guy built a six or seven channel p-51 Mustang airplane that will fit in the palm of your hand!
Cool little build. The use of microcontrollers and a vintage piece is a beautiful marriage. Nicely done. 👍
I built something similar to this, except I turned mine into a VU meter for use in my recording studio. This definitely adds a classic look, plus it’s always a great conversation piece whenever I have other musicians with me at the studio!
the inner parts.... what a beautiful mechanism !
Incredible skills, editing and just plain creativity.
For some reason I just love objects like this that are gadgety but so well-made, I can't help it but smile !
Super cool project dude, thank you for sharing :)
The work was very neat, you took the time to arrange everything in place inside the box, most people wouldn't even care about the wires.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, I appreciate it! It's my pedantic perfectionist nature. It has to look neat inside as well as out!
I like seeing people who really understand how to use 3d printing.
Excellent and brilliantly executed! Man, you pushed the envelope on this one with all the different facets of the build. Looks like you had some fun in NY too. Thank you Daniel, one of your best imho!
Cheers man! I appreciate it! This build, and NY was indeed fun!
Another beautifully executed project and video. Always enjoyable and informative. Nice work, Daniel!
This was fun to watch! Love the concept 👍🏼👍🏼
Awesome project - love the upcycling of old parts, great video
Two beautiful apparatuses + one wonderful upcycling = a very neat and sleek job 👍🏻. Greetings from Spain.
Awesome, it turned out really cool! I've been meaning to turn an old aircraft instrument gauge into a clock, and this is the perfect set of components!
Oh? That sounds cool! Would love to see how that comes out!
beautiful craftsmanship. your handywork really pushes the limits of what you can do these days, especially with the 3D printing! Inspired
Cheers! It was great fun to make!
What an awesome build. Love it!
Very nice! Awesome build!
Very cute project. Made me smile all the way.
I wish I could do a double or triple like! Such a great job repurposing this antique and very well done video!!! Kudos!
I'd say under captain disillusion, you are the most underrated channel on youtube. I don't know how you don't have more subs.
Haha! Who knows!? Feel free to spread the word :)
So Epic!!!! Way to go to put all this together!
As a medium term subscriber, I'm looking forward to your 100k subscriber celebration video.
This is so cool and creative! Thanks for sharing this very entertaining glimpse into the renaissance man you are. Combining 1950’s (?) components/hardware with Arduino, WiFi, stepper motors, hot glue, metal lathe, drills, LED’s, hand taps, soldering, 3D CAD, 3D printing. 😊
Yep, it's from 1958 (found it stamped on the back of the gauge plate). Haha, thank you, I'm quite agnostic as to what technology I use to get something done, as long as it does the job. Except for pocket holes, those are the worst! :D
This is the first video of yours that I've watched... subscribed!
Cheers! There's plenty more where that came from :)
Well done! I thoroughly enjoyed this one!
You deserve hundreds of thousands more subs. Just gotta get another big boost by the algorithm
You are obviously wrong about the use of the old meter ... it says so right there on the front... Midget Levelometer...it is to measure if Midgets are level because you can't have a lopsided Midget running around... everybody knows that.. a lopsided Midget is just going to run around in circles
They really do cause havoc.
Would that also work with dwarfs?
chexstix.. Not sure about that.. You may need the Dwarf levelometer... All I know is that you are not supposed to feed them after midnight
Tacit Tacet
God Bless them, but them midgets can be a real hazard.
Another amazing piece and video
Really cool Idea and superb explanation.
This looks straight out of Fallout! I love it.
The cloth wrapped wire is a nice touch
That's what it came with, the whole receiver is original, no idea how old!
Clever sir, nice work!
That is great, fantastic build. I really need to get more into electronics
Awesome piece of steampunk!
Great work man.
Wow! That’s amazing!
Very impressive! Great video!.
I have seen these at older oil heating plants in private homes. To see how much oil is left on the tank.
Quote: The Midget Model Pneumatic gauge provides an economical way to achieve reliable and accurate tank gauging in vented tanks. Pneumatic gauges have been used for many years in tank gauging systems requiring remote indication with accuracy and stability over wide temperature ranges. These gauges are supplied with custom dials, depending on the application. Dial scales may be manufactured to indicate proportional (i.e. E, ¼, ½, ¾, F), litres, gallons, feet & inches, percentage of full and dual scale.
Neat, thanks for the information!
Frekkin cool, Daniel!
Best project ever !!!
Thumbs up from this guy.
Classy! Makes me want to make some kind of puppet-y version.
Oh! Do it! Doooo it!!!!
Hello Daniel , I always look forward to your vidoes, keep the good work up. BTW you and I took the same plane from Copenhagen to Stockholm 2 weeks ago. I wanted to say hi but you looked tired and I didnt want to bother. it was cool to see you in person.
Aw! I was indeed quite tired (jetlagged from flight from San Francisco) but I'm always up for meeting new people. If you happen across me ever again, tap my shoulder and say hi! 🙂
That is so cool. Great video! : )
great build! I'm looking forward to what you will do with the insides. That brass is to cool to waste.
Har väntat på ett nytt projekt från dig.. Och om det var värt det! Grymt bygge, och jag önskar att jag hade kunskapen att pyssla med sånt här!! Keep on bein' you!
Tackar! Jag hade inte kunskapen heller innan jag började rota i det. Min metod är mer att skaffa kunskap jag ej har genom att lösa problem eller idéer jag har. Har lärt mig mycket lite av detta genom skolbänken, i princip allt kommer från internet och en hälsosam nivå av envishet :)
Switch & Lever Tack för den uppmuntrande kommentaren! 👍 Det kanske inte är försent att lära den här gamla hunden sitta? 😊
Jag ser det så här, om min far kunde lära (sig själv) hur man bygger ihop och sen använder en dator då han var 65, då är det aldrig för sent att lära sig något. Så länge viljan finns så är det bara att göra det!
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That is amazing.
Cheers!
Very, very clever.
So good!
Subscribed to try it out.
This is awesome! 😍😎👍🏻
Awesome modification! You get my sub :)
Very nice!
Really nice
Four people started screaming when you took it apart
I was wondering if for the manometer you could get a rod up the tube and be able to push the mechanism with another servo or small solenoid (once some parts are removed), or thread some wires to an electromagnet inside, either way could make it wobble with the speech.
super nice!
Thanks man!
Wonderful!
a normally open switch and a spring at the phone hanger would have been cool too, kinda like a real phone worked back in the days :)
Cool stuff.
Love it!
Wonderful fun!
It May not be that much useful but still it's creative.
That was so cool
put a check valve on the gauge and put in some air! great build
Thought: You could adjust the intervals to be equal to hundreds of thousands, so that way it would make it up to 1,000,000 subscribers!
Then the meter would basically never move. In four years it wouldn't even have gotten ten percent. This way it tops out a couple of times a month. With the receiver it goes up to 999,999,999 subscribers anyhow, simply because it doesn't know how to say billion.
so cool! maybe it should indicate the percentage of subscribers that you have related to a goal, and when it reaches it it sets a new goal, for example now the goal could be 100k, then 500k, 1M, ecc..
If you could make another gauge to work for the top, you could use it to indicate 10thounasds and use the main gauge to denote thousands.
you could use a servo and the bellows from the original device to drive the manometer, since it is basically a compact version of the original device.
Nope, they're way too tough to drive with a servo, and since they would constantly be pushing back the servo would have to constantly be on and pushing. I'd probably have to set something up with a worm gear to get the torque required, or put in a very beefy servo which wouldn't fit in the enclosure.
Awesome ..!
So cool
Nice!
That's a nice build! It's too bad you couldn't find a way to use that beautiful original mechanism in there somehow though. Like using a servo to drive the air piston and create pressure or something...
Insane!!!!
Maybe you can install another servo in the round manometer and make it count hundreds of thousands of subs , using the info from below multiplied by 2,3,4 to find the result.. Excellent content as always!!
Maybe, but as I said in the video, I did not want to destroy the manometer, not to mention that I don't have a servo small enough, and running wiring up to it would be a pain in the behind. The receiver will read out the full data anyway, and that's enough for me considering the rate I get subscribers.
I wish someday you have so many subscribers that your circuit gives up! ;)
Awesome project! I Love the idea to reporpose this beautiful piece!
I have a personal issue with the use of hot glue gun for final assemblies like that.. I know its do not affect the funcionality of the system, but you could just put screws to hold the board and the servo in place.. It will be way more convenient if someday this needs maintence.
The PCB is only glued to the 3D printed insert, which is screwed down. It unscrews and comes out in one piece and can easily be loosened with a heat gun. The servo is only glued in with a little hot glue. Prying with a screwdriver will loosen it in seconds. The main maintenance this may need over time is updating the code, as UA-cam is likely to change how to access their API at some point.
Great assembly btw.
Sorry if i sound too critique, your assembly is perfect, its just a minor thing that anoying me sometimes when people use glue gun for everything. Totally a personal issue.
Oh, you don't, and I'm far beyond being upset just because people have opinions about what I do. Just wanted to explain why I think my usage of hot glue in this application is apt.
Everything about this is great except for the ultra generic hook you mounted on the side. No custom brass??
Nope, wanted a steel hook as the hoop on the receiver is steel. I quite like it actually, it doesn't draw too much attention.
badass.
How well does the WiFi signal work inside that metal enclosure? I would have expected no signal due to the metal. Maybe the front window is large enough it's ok? Just wondering.
No issues whatsoever. It can take a minute or two to establish connection when first powered up, but no issues once it's connected. Sometimes it drops connection with the UA-cam API, but it usually reconnects within a minute.
Excellent build. Maybe you could get the manometer to be a 1000 x multiplier in the future?
Not without destroying the manometer, and I simply didn't want to, nor did I have servos small enough to make it work.
Great!!!
that manometer could be a multiplier for subscriber count (e.g x1000)
Great project. Might I make a suggestion. The hook for the receiver. Why not add a pivot to it and then include a microswitch inside that would be triggered by lifting the telephone receiver. Then you wouldn't have a modern switch spoiling the antique / Steampunk aesthetic. The hole you have for the switch could be repurposed for an old tungsten mini 12v vintage style bulb and holder. So when the subscriber count clicks over every 1000 subs, the bulb could flash for a minute or so.
Also noted there were 2 on US ebay and 2 on Canadian ebay too.
It's a cool idea, for sure! I thought how I could solve that issue, but a pivot and switch would indeed have been enough. There is actually already a bit of a light show around the gauge whenever it returns to zero :)
Have the needle on the manometer move up a notch every time the main meter resets to zero.
Actually my uncle's name is Robert, we just call him Bob. :)
what if the manometer gets used for displaying subscriber per minute or smth like that?
Texas Instruments! I lived in Dallas in the 70s and 80s (high school and Uni years), and I knew a lot of people who worked for TI. Some of them may have worked on this speech synthesizer project. TI’s main work back then, though, was making missiles and bombs and other instruments of murder and mayhem.
Too bad this is only an emulator, would be great fun to play around with the original. Been thinking of getting myself an old Speak and Spell, but they're starting to be quite expensive on eBay.
I used to see a lot of Speak and Spells at garage sales. I haven’t spotted one lately, though.
I think it would be even cooler if you keep device untouched, connect it to tank and add drop of some liquid to it representing each subscriber.
Would be cool, but I just don't have place for a 1000 liter tank ;)
Hey I've been holding on a midget levelometer for many years, would you mind sharing the 3D file for the servo bracket? This is pretty cool
It's cool and all but, I just wish you used a voltmeter/ammeter analog gauge rather than that neat lil midget leveler.. Also I agree on the manometer, I was thinking you were going to have two different ranges on either gauge, the small one moving in 100s of subscribers and the larger moving either alongside in 1000s or in a discrete step when the little one finishes moving to the end before falling back.
You use what you have. Would it have been better if I bought this then let it collect dust indefinitely in a storage somewhere? The mechanism still exists, and I may do something with it that actually celebrates it rather than hides it away. I didn't have any servos small enough to modify the manometer, and I actually care a lot more about that than the levelometer, considering condition, place of manufacture and age. For now making it look neat is enough for me.
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Oh don't get me wrong, it is better this way, I couldn't care less about the external case.. for some reason I thought you were going to expose the mechanism whilst still doing the counter so it was a bit of a shock when the guts were removed
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If I may, one possible use of the levelometer innerds I can think of is a centrepiece inside a clock, beating in and out at a biological rate
The issue is that it needs to be mechanically actuated, as it's actually a very stiff mechanism, and generating enough pressure to move it would be out of the question. It would need to be actuated with a high torque, low speed, motor of some sort. Don't know how long the bellows would hold up to constant movement either, as this is designed to be used a few times every now and then to check the level of tanks, not constant usage. I fear metal fatigue would get the best of it rather quickly.
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I was thinking of using the gauge as intended, move it with air pressure. A small area piston moving at a fast pace would easily generate the pressure needed, how fast it does it depends on the speed/power of the motor and stroke length of the piston.. That would involve a lot of very finnicky machining (as well as two tiny check valves + an equally tiny solenoid valve)
I've seen similar mechanical bellows used in old industrial kit so they can't be that fragile within their predefined limits. I guess it depends on the type of brass alloy used too though..
Just some thoughts :)
wheres that pen making video??? And awesome idea and working wisdom brother
It should be linked on the card showing as it's mentioned in the video.
Great little project, shame you couldn't keep the fantastic looking internals.
Oh, I kept them, maybe I'll repurpose them for some project in the future, who knows!
8:07 going clickspring on it 👍
You could program that meter to present thousands. So you have a meter for 1000 000 subscribers! :D
Indeed, but now it goes up to 1000 about 2-4 times a month, if it was for one million subscribers the needle would basically not move at all. It'll take many years to reach there at the current pace :)
Just have it read from 0k to 1000k subs. And when you reach 1 million subs have the mano meter go to 1 and start over with the other one. Then it works till 4,999,999 subs!
This works just fine to one less than one billion subs, as it doesn't know how to say "billion", so no issue there. If the main meter goes up to a million the needle would basically not move, it would have only one up to 8% of total, in four years, if you consider my subscriber count and how long it's taken to get that high. At least this way around it tops out and returns to zero a couple of times a month.
make the manometer move for ever 100k subscribers
I'm really not into the social media stuff... but does snapchat pay royalties for using homer simpson's head twice on their icon?...
Wow
I swear 6:51 is my favorite part
Haha! I don't even want to admit how long that particular edit took!
next vid: Making a Switch and Lever.
Haha! That would be amazing!