8,000 Subscribers: Thank You, and What You’ve Taught Me

8,000 Subscribers: Thank You, and What You’ve Taught Me

This week my YouTube channel passed 8,000 subscribers.

That’s 8,000 people who chose to watch someone take apart Raspberry Pi Picos, argue with SDK settings and occasionally cut the head off a snowman. I find that amazing, and I wanted to say thank you properly.

Where we are

The channel has nearly 600 videos and over 700,000 views. It covers the Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico 2 and RP2350, FreeRTOS, IoT, robots and the odd animatronic. Most of it started with a question I couldn’t find a good answer to, so I built something and filmed it.

Three things you’ve taught me

1. The build gets you in, but the fix is what you come back for.
My most watched videos aren’t my biggest builds. They’re the ones that solved a problem you’d been stuck on: the Pico 2 upgrade, a hidden RAM setting in the SDK, an IMU that finally behaves. A droid that drives sideways is fun to watch. A setting that saves you a weekend is something you share.

2. Your questions make better videos than my ideas.
A lot of what’s on the schedule came from comments: “how did you do the TLS?”, “what about low power?”, “can it do more servos?” When a question comes up twice, it’s a video.

3. Show the bit that went wrong.
The connector I fitted the wrong way round, or the bolt I forgot to model. Those moments get the most comments, and I think it’s because that’s what building is really like. Nobody’s bench is as tidy as a tutorial.

Come and celebrate: livestream, Sunday 29 November

I’m marking 8,000 with a livestream party on Sunday 29 November. Bring your questions, have a look round the bench, and help choose one of my 2027 builds. Set a reminder for the livestream here.

What’s coming next

  • Thu 19 Nov: the Snowman series starts. A second-hand puppet, a 3D printed skeleton, four servos and a radar.
  • Thu 10 Dec: an offline Raspberry Pi voice assistant that beeps like R2-D2.
  • Thu 17 Dec: ThingsBoard over HTTPS on a Pico, and why one letter isn’t enough.
  • Thu 31 Dec: my favourite builds of 2026.

Thank you

Thank you for every view, comment, question and bug report. A special thank you to my channel members, who watch everything early and pay for the parts, the filament and the hours. You’re the reason I’m still aiming for Open Sauce 2027.

If you’d like to help, the easiest thing is to subscribe and tell a friend who’s into the Pico. If you’d like to go further:

And tell me in the comments: what should I build next?

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