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Michael Reeves

YouTuber producing comedy-tech videos about robotics and programming.

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Capture2Sound3Editing and post22Platforms7Desk1Everything else4

Capture

Cameras1

Camera equipment1

  • Flash Trigger

    first cited September 2019

    “This is a wireless Flash Trigger it's what photographers use when they want to activate a Flash wirelessly so instead of triggering a Flash we're going to hijack that signal from the receiver and pipe it into an arduino”
    View source at 1:52from September 2019

Sound

Microphones1

Speakers1

  • Amazon Echo Dot

    mixed views on it

    “I took the opportunity to pick up an Amazon Echo Dot personal assistant to maybe sweep up some of the shambles that were once my organizational schedule spoiler alert it didn't work but this thing is still super useful”
    View source at 0:29from January 2018

Headphones1

  • Raycon wireless earbuds (E25)

    first cited December 2019speaks highly of it

    “I actually bought a pair before they even offer to sponsor me because my wired ear buds were really getting in the way of working more than the entire time I was soldering these pieces of [ __ ] together which actually took forever but it wasn't an issue for these new 25s which have a six hour battery life and awesome sound quality”
    View source at 7:21from December 2019

Editing and post

Recording software1

  • OBS Studio
    “…okay cannot get speaker cannot get OBS to work I will figure out how to work OBS like a normal human being in a separate video”
    View source at 1:14:28from July 2017

Coding software14

  • Python

    cited in 7 videosmixed views on it

    “…let's write it in Python because Python can do anything just badly so here's my Python script running”
    View source at 5:59from August 2018+ 6 more sources
  • Java

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “…and the reason I rewrote all the code in Java is because it runs just a little bit faster”
    View source at 2:41from April 2018+ 1 more source
  • Arduino Studio (Arduino IDE)

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “…so let's come into Arduino Studios uh if you don't have this on your computer it's super easy you just go over to uo.com download the software uh I I could put a link in the description for you”
    View source at 0:38from July 2017+ 1 more source
  • Visual Studio 2017

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “…we're going to be using visual Studios with c and Wind forms uh if you don't have visual Studios installed I have a tutorial uh I can link it down in the description it's really simple to get set up”
    View source at 7:00from July 2017+ 1 more source

AI software2

  • Google Text-to-Speech

    positive about it

    “I set it up specifically so it could read out emojis because I think only Google text-to-speech can do that”
    View source at 16:56from July 2017
  • TensorFlow

    first cited April 2021mixed views on it

    “The TensorFlow model I've been using to detect the cup does not play well with the camera quality at all”
    View source at 6:59from April 2021

Productivity software3

  • Linux

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “Windows Mac or Linux windows for the everyday OS Linux for the server and Mac when I need something to make fun of”
    View source at 6:17from July 2017+ 1 more source
  • Windows

    cited in 2 videospositive about it

    “Windows Mac or Linux windows for the everyday OS Linux for the server and Mac when I need something to make fun of”
    View source at 6:17from July 2017+ 1 more source
  • Discord
    “…you know what I really didn't make a discord server I did it's a one-way discord server”
    View source at 26:46from July 2017

Creator tools2

  • Arduino

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited June 2018

    “…as an example I have a light on an Arduino and I'm going to turn it on using just focus”
    View source at 3:02from June 2018+ 1 more source
  • Microsoft Paint

    first cited April 2021

    “…if you like any of the shirts I've worn in this video they're mine I made them on in Microsoft Paint on my twitch stream”
    View source at 13:59from April 2021

Platforms

Hosting platforms3

  • Twitch

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2020positive about it

    “Oh I stream on Twitch now it's mostly just hanging out for video games sometimes I do tech stuff of this [ __ ] I built this drill on stream”
    View source at 5:43from July 2020+ 1 more source
  • AWS Lambda
    “Now I just uploaded this code to AWS Lambda which is the server not server that this is going to be running on and now I can actually test it out with my echo dot”
    View source at 2:38from January 2018
  • YouTube
    “…why did you toed why did I choose to stream on YouTube uh I didn't want to stream on Twitch”
    View source at 3:08from July 2017

Membership platforms1

Courses3

Desk

Computers1

  • Raspberry Pi

    $200.00cited in 5 videos

    “…it's got two main components we have a Raspberry Pi and a relay board on this little piece of plastic I print it out if it's nicely on the side of the nut box so the Raspberry Pi is running a web server which is listening for commands”
    View source at 3:27from May 2018+ 4 more sources

Everything else

Other4

  • Fusion 360

    cited in 3 videos

    “I'm going to open up Fusion 360 and start 3D modeling the best invention you ever god damn seen.”
    View source at 2:12from October 2017+ 2 more sources
  • NordVPN

    $99.99first cited July 2019speaks highly of it

    “…as a software developer I use Nord VPN because I understand how the internet can be far more insecure than you would ever think”
    View source at 7:01from July 2019
  • Spot robot dog

    first cited April 2021speaks highly of it

    “There's a boston dynamics robot dog right here and it's the coolest [ __ ] thing I've ever seen in my entire life”
    View source at 1:29from April 2021
  • mplayer
    “…you can just play it on the raspberry plays there the raspberry pi's mplayer I think it is if I remember right executable and it'll send it right to the audio jack”
    View source at 43:06from July 2017

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