List of Maker-friendly YouTubers worth subscribing to today or tomorrow.

The best path to motivation is to look at what others are building. From small to humongous YouTube channels (considering subscriber count) and from humble to absolutely wacko projects, here’s a list of the best of the best in the platform. Disclaimer: some are so good they may actually make you want to give up. Don’t. Based loosely on this list, here are my curated recommendations.

I’m tired of putting links and description on a table, so here’s a few more noteworthy channels for you to click away and be surprised with all these awesome people. Deliberately missing descriptions for extra surprise.

@tested, @InheritanceMachining, @JeremyMakesThings, @rctestflight (a personal favorite of mine), @tomstantonengineering, @ivanmirandawastaken (absolute personal favorite #2), @DIYPerks.

Time to get addicted and start to live the maker life through the experiences of others. It;s cheaper.

Interesting stuff: in search for extra-terrestrial life, Soviet style!

That big thing with a suspicious alien looking at it (real picture), is the RT-64 radio telescope in Russia. Why 64? Nobody knows. The antenna is 64 meters in diameter. Russia built two of these, one in Kalyazin (pictured) and another in Shchyolkovo, near Moscow. Not sure about the other, but the Kalyazin unit was built in the 80s. It started operations in 1984 - It played a significant role in tracking Soviet and Russian space missions, including interplanetary probes and spacecraft. There are three bigger ones too, the RT-70s (the 70 seems to refer to something). All these massive radio telescopes are part of the Soviet Deep Space Network (or Russian Deep Space Network). As far as I can tell, and according to this source Despite the aging infrastructure, the Kalyazin RT-64 continues to be an invaluable asset in both scientific research and space exploration.”

In 2008, the RT-70 network was used to beam 501 messages at the exoplanet Gliese 581c, in hopes of making contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The messages should arrive in 2029. Good luck to us. I’m getting “3 body problem” and “Contact” vibes.

The best starting point into radio telescopes is the Wikipedia page - a truly well put together resource. If you didn’t click the Wikipedia link, let me just say that 70 meters is large, but there are even larger ones (curious?).

If there’s any hope to contact aliens here from earth (versus when these get lost in space), it’s with large-size radio telescopes. Nothing is louder than those. I just hope they’re nice.

One more thing we all want to have, otherwise life is no fun.

Sooner or later, any respectable nerd will be asked to repair stuff and thus, it is important to have the appropriate tools to get the job done in style. If the tools look cool, even better. This Precision Screwdriver Set is available on Amazon and it is a must-have in our arsenal. At only $30 it looks like well worth the price.

Maybe I should start an Amazon Wishlist so I all 21 of you can buy me stuff for my time. LOL, I’ll just get it myself.

That’s all folks!

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