The State of Open Source Hardware Development on YouTube

Basics

• The Maker Movement has a significant share of the YouTube Space
• It can be divided into a few groups
  • Artistic Making ( Cosplay / Chindogu / Hardware Speedrunning etc)
  • DIY Scams ( "LIFEHACK, make FREE ENERGY DEVICE for FREE using COMMON HOUSEHOLD MATERIALS", uses lots of Hot Glue and Popsicle Sticks etc)
  • DIY Projects / Documented DIY
  • Full on proper OSHW development
• The categorization will have lots of Grey Areas and in general is a Fuzzy Concept , but should still be useful
• Short of pointing it out, and thus excluding it from the work DIY Scams won't be mentioned much further
• Also many adjacent spaces such as Review Channels / Artistic Making etc may not develop OSHW, but still may utilize it (increasing Machine Hours ), point out any issues/fixes, as well as provide Advocacy and Word-of-Mouth Marketing which is important nonetheless!