Published December 18, 2018 © CC BY-NC-ND

Subby the Interactive YouTube Subscriber Robot

This robot will be able to move, dance, and do funny stuff live when people subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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Subby the Interactive YouTube Subscriber Robot

Things used in this project

Hardware components

9g Servo

link: https://www.banggood.com/6X-TowerPro-SG90-Mini-Gear-Micro-Servo-9g-p-1078614.html?rmmds=search

White LED

200 ohm resistor

Arduino Nano

prototype board 4cmX6cm type: 107822J2H

link: https://www.banggood.com/40pcs-FR-4-Double-Side-Prototype-PCB-Printed-Circuit-Board-p-995732.html?rmmds=search&cur_warehouse=CN

2S lipo battery

30A brushed ESC

This is used as the 5V power supply for the servo's

Story

Description

This robot will be able to move, dance, do funny stuff live when people subscribe to my YouTube chanel. To get the subscriber amount number from my YouTube chanel I made a visual basic aplication that searches for the subscriber number in the webpage. The aplication will than send this number to the COM-port via serial strings. The Arduino will receive this serial string wich contains the subscriber amount number and will than give command to the servos. I uploaded the visual basic to my dropbox.

Details

To control the robot I designed a program that gets the subscriber amount from my chanel URL and then sends it every second to the COM-port that is connected to the Arduino. The Arduino than reads the received string and reactions accordingly to it. I used a 30A brushed ESC as power supply to get the 5 VDC for the servos. I uploaded all the stl-files but the body stl-file was to big to upload here so you can find this stl-file (and the others also) in my Dropbox link.

STL-files can be found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2928254

link to the build video:

You can always go to my chanel to check if the robot is online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRs9vVRoVo4BTBceFRaJnpA?