Most of it isn't strictly necessary. Like, he has sputtering equipment for making layers that can't be chemically deposited for example. The one where he makes a MOSFET on camera involves just spin coating with tape and some random motor, a little tube furnace to bake impurities in and chemical etching IIRC.
He uses commercially available blank wafers; you'd need a small arc furnace (or at least a blast furnace and patience when your product is mostly iron) to make silicon from sand and something resembling a meth lab to clean it (and then you'd grow and cut your wafer, but that could be done on a desk I'm sure).
It didn't look that hard in the transistor video, actually. His layers were in no way straight or pretty, all that matters is the topology and timing on the baking steps.
The Space Quest Historian does YouTube videos about classic adventure games with full playthroughs, historical deep dives, and creator interviews. He also actually hangs out here in the Fediverse: he's on Lemmy as @SQHistorian@lemm.ee and on Mastodon as @sqhistorian@dosgame.club.
Also, SQH's band Error 47 does industrial rock covers of retro game music and is criminally under-subscribed. They're currently working on an album covering The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, which I'm really looking forward to.
I've also been really digging Quake Speedruns Explained lately, which is a really chill dude talking about one of the oldest and most competitive speedrunning scenes around.
Crackermilk has gotten bigger, but with the quality and quantity of hilarious absurd little sketches they put out, I feel like they are still insanely underrated. Much too high for this question, but I still want to mention them.
I’m surprised that Penny Pixel’s YouTube channel isn’t more popular. They create pixel-perfect parodies of old 8-bit games.
My favourite is a video of the ‘Sierra’ adventure game Joker, based on the Batman movie of the same name. But there’s also California Games 2018 (where you compete in events like fidget spinning and drone flying) and Mamma Mia! Kart Racer (which is actually worse than it sounds – don’t say I didn’t warn you!).
Um... so idk if you heard of this game called FTL: Faster than Light, basically its a rogue-like, real time strategy game involving space exploration.
So one of the the youtube channels that plays FTL that I've been watching is Rand118. Well he's more of a streamer rather than a youtuber, but he reuploads his twitch content to youtube (I like pausing a lot so I never watch livestreams). Idk why I watch this dude, like it's not very "high quality" but I guess when I first played FTL, I watched 2 channels, and one of them was LethalFrag and the other is Rand118, so I kinda just occasionally watch Rand118 for the nostalgia.
Also, the other channel is Andrew Colunga, which has this 40-episode youtube series that tells a story of a Kestrel ship and it's called:
Joe’s Classic Video Games, two brothers who repair old arcade machines. Their videos are usually in a long format so you’ll see the whole process. They explain what they’re doing and talk about the history. Really good to watch when you have a spare couple of hours.
I'm a big fan of Reel Knewz on YouTube. They only have about 1.5k subscribers, but they're the closest thing I've found to All Gas No Breaks/Channel 5 since the news came out about Andrew Callaghan.
I was looking through all the YT channels I subscribe to and most of them have millions of views per video. But if you're into fishing, there is a channel called 1fish2fish. It's a younger husband and wife on the East Coast. They have some great videos that have really helped me up my fishing game and taught me a lot and they're fun to watch.
I know this post said YouTube, but throwing this small twitch streamer. He's done GTA RP, but has been streaming horror games. Check him out. https://www.twitch.tv/somewayz?sr=a
Country Fried Minis is great. He
paints Battletech and Infinity minis mostly, but my favorite aspect is that he often streams while video editing, which is a cool behind the scenes of content creation for a young artist. Very nice guy who has always been engaged and willing to answer questions, offer advice, etc when I spoke up in chat.
If you’re into music production and song writing there’s a great twitch streamer called Plus 6 Productions. Informative, entertaining, very engaging with chat and the viewers are fun too.
I don’t know if he’s small time, maybe a lot of people read his blog. He posts very in depth information about mobile payments in Japan, and Apple software information as it relates to Japan. Pay compatibility, map updates, those kind of things. Also he occasionally posts random cultural stuff.
Ya know, this guy ChamrsDeluxe is alright! He does music, chainmail, gaming, reaction content. He took a long break after getting hit with some depression, but he's got some quality content that is just hard to get eyes on. Even put out a fairly high production value video on "gfx artists" who are just scammers that constantly plague small creators.