Hey everyone - I’ve been on a mission lately to help creative people share their projects, work-in-progress, techniques - especially using open-source technology. I love watching people “in the zone” as they draw & design, operate lasers & CNC routers, repair broken tools, and otherwise have a good ol time rambling about projects as they build.
I created a How To video, which demonstrates using OBS (screen recording / streaming tool) to broadcast video to MakerTube (similar to YouTube, except its an open-source platform) to show the world what you’re building. Near the end, I also quickly show Mastodon, which is a Twitter/X-like short message service, where you can promote your projects & videos.
Critical feedback, ideas, improvements on this video are invited and encouraged. Also, would love to know what other topic would be helpful to record and show. I deliberately didn’t go into depth on the tools in this video (didn’t want to overwhelm), but I’m happy to dig into specific topics are there is demand. One video I’m thinking could be fun & valuable, is how to setup detailed “tool cams”, using additional USB webcams, so you can show off what your CNC router / laser is doing, while also showing video of your face explaining.
Please share your ideas & questions. If you are an expert in this topic - recording, sharing, etc - please share your wisdom!
I used the Linux version of OBS a few months ago to show some makers how to use the Arduino debugger on a STM32 board. It worked well but took a few shots to get things right. A tutorial can be helpful.
A screen recording of using OBS, how very meta! (And not in the facebook sense. )
Note that full members of Maker Forums Discourse here also have invitations to join Maker Forums Social, a Mastodon for the Maker Forums community. It runs the “Glitch+soc” version of Mastodon, which means that it allows you to write in Markdown instead of only plain text, and it allows up to 2000 characters per post.
I’ll have to get back to you on that. I recall having to undo and restart something over and over to get something right related to window view port.
There might be a discord thread I posted the video to.
A decade ago I setup a virtual video port so I could do a picture in a picture of my screen with a selfie cam and also a microscope came. Linux just has so many capabilities but they are not point and click user-friendly things. I had scripts to setup the capturing streaming and transcoding. OBS is still way easier and I’ve seen what others on other platforms have done.
How-to Video: How to Live-Stream your Creative Projects using OBS & PeerTube/MakerTube - MakerTube
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