A good way to get started with designing your YouTube logo is to observe logos from channels of every genre.
His Code which I have corrected to his specs.All set to start your very own YouTube channel? Along with a kickass channel name that you can get from our YouTube Channel Name Generator, you also need a YouTube logo to get started. Can anyone figure out what I’m doing wrong? I know that my total lack of programming skills is showing, but I can’t get his darn code to work on my ardruino uno. I certainly would have built a lot of things differently if I were to build this (like using pingpong balls on the T-Shirt is clunky and kind of tacky to me) but kudos to the dude for doing it, anyway. Grow up and stop being so angry at the world. It does show off a bit more, but so? Maybe there is a bit of rage in the fact that because of the arduino, people can now do the things that use to make you look really smarter than other people, and more special? For being smart people, there sure are a lot of sensitive egos in this industry. My point is that doing it with discretes is not simpler or really cheaper at all. I won’t say it is overkill, but if it gets people building stuff that otherwise couldn’t, then awesome. Granted I would not have used an arduino, either.
I would have used a microcontroller, because it would be faster, simpler, cheaper, and provide for adjustments through software.
Yep, I can also design such a simple circuit using discretes. Versatile general-purpose mass-produced hardware is very reasonable when you use it for multiple tasks.Īs an EE, I think the arguments about doing this in discretes is just posturing. How many of you are reading this post on a computer that has the minimum hardware required for the task? Even a beagleboard would be overqualified, but I bet most of you are using bloated general purpose computers with things like sound cards, gigabytes of excess memory, and disk drives that dwarf the Arduino’s excesses.
If the development costs are counted, it might even win when used for a single prototype project. General purpose hardware that’s reusable wins when reused for many one-off projects with a short useful lifespan. Perhaps this isn’t the first use of that Arduino, either.Ī custom solution using shift registers and such might have a lower gate count, and might be cheaper in mass production, but the specialty hardware wouldn’t be of so much use for the next hacking project. Check out the video after the break.Īn Arduino is an extremely efficient way to do this, if you make the assumption (I suspect quite reasonable) that this particular thing is a novelty item, and the Arduino will be repurposed for some other function later on.
While it may not be as colorful as the beachball of death or as conceptual as the Windows ‘spinning hourglass’, we’re really liking this build. To complete the build, attached his physical loading animation to a black t-shirt emblazoned with the YouTube logo to make everything more understandable. The code loops through each LED and provides the ‘light trail’ animation YouTube has burned into our memory. After drilling each ping-pong ball and gluing white LEDs in, the only thing left was to connect everything up to an Arduino. used eight ping-pong balls as the main structure of the build. thought it would be a great idea to actually become YouTube and set out on designing a physical manifestation of the loading animation. Whether you’re used to dropped wifi connections, or your housemates are using up all the bandwidth for streaming, we’ve all see the spinning octet of disks that is the YouTube loading animation.