Subby the interactive youtube subscriber robot

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 servo's. I uploaded the visual basic to my dropbox.

Details

To control the robot I designed a program that gets the subscriber amount from my channel 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 servo's.

STL and Fusion 360 source files can be found here: https://bbprojects.technology/collections/stl-fusion-360-source-files/products/subby-the-interactive-youtube-subscriber-robot-files

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?

Files

youtube_mascot_simple_relay_code_only_react_to_subs_added.ino

This code only activates the relay when the sub count goes up.

ino - 1.18 kB - 04/22/2019 at 11:48

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youtube_mascot_simple_relay_code.ino

Simplified arduino code wich only controlles a relay, at the request of Alex ;-)

ino - 1.14 kB - 04/22/2019 at 09:49

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youtube_mascot_arduino_code_V3_new_program_test.ino

Latest arduino code for the robot

ino - 10.32 kB - 04/22/2019 at 09:13

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Neck V2.stl

Standard Tesselated Geometry - 4.54 MB - 04/21/2018 at 11:06

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head V1.stl

Standard Tesselated Geometry - 5.06 MB - 04/21/2018 at 11:06

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Project Logs

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Made a short build video of the robot
Brian Brocken • 05/23/2018 at 18:57 • 0 comments
Printed all the parts with alluminium filament
Brian Brocken • 04/22/2018 at 10:20 • 0 comments
Schematics for the controller
Brian Brocken • 04/21/2018 at 10:58 • 0 comments
Designed Subby all it's parts
Brian Brocken • 04/21/2018 at 10:49 • 0 comments
added a link to my dropbox
Brian Brocken • 04/21/2018 at 10:32 • 0 comments

I added a link to my dropbox where I will post all the robot it's files so you can download it.You may get a warning from your pc when downloading the program but I can assure you that it is safe, it is just the application to get the subscriber amount from your YT chanel and send this number to the COM port. Your PC will probably give you this warning every time you download an exe file.
quick sketch on how the robot will look like
Brian Brocken • 04/20/2018 at 21:50 • 0 comments
Managed to create the visual basic aplication
Brian Brocken • 04/20/2018 at 21:48 • 0 comments

I managed to make a Visual Basic aplication that gets the youtube subscriber amount from a youtube chanel homepage and then sends the number to the com port every second over serial communication.

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Discussions

charleswhitt68 wrote 02/16/2021 at 09:20

Thank you for the tip!

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TheBestJohn wrote 06/04/2018 at 21:07

Hello there! I'm not sure how you get subscriber count but I suspect you're doing some page scraping. I'd suggest you use the YouTube API to get subscriber counts.

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=statistics&id=<CHANNEL ID HERE>&key=<YOUR API KEY>&fields=items(statistics/subscriberCount)

I think this would also be more up to date.

Cool project! :)

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Brian Brocken wrote 06/04/2018 at 21:11

I might take a look into it. Thank you for the tip!

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Brian Lough wrote 06/06/2018 at 15:59

Awesome project!

Using an esp8266/esp32 you can hit the api directly using a library I wrote

https://github.com/witnessmenow/arduino-youtube-api

Esp32 should have enough pins to run all your servos so you could even replace the nano

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Subby the interactive youtube subscriber robot

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