Jon: Is there a significance with April Fool's Day?Ĭarter: I just remember it because it was April Fool's.Ĭarter: It was the start of the month, that's when I moved home-I'm really bad with dates and times, so that's how I remember. I remember the first day that I was like officially full time for YouTube was April 1st, 2017. Jon: Over 360 million channel views and over 130 videos.Ĭarter: I first started in 2017. Jon: You have 2.4 million YouTube subscribers So just an absolute pretty impressive mechanical feat, especially for my age.Īnd then I enter that into an engineering competition and I won the regional and then went onto states and won the states, and then there was a global competition where there's over 25 countries around the world that fly in to compete, and I won that competition as well.Ī transcript of the full interview follows: I used an old drill, and so I had the drill input and I’d have to gear it down, and then I had a drive shaft and that had to have coupling joints that go out to 90 degree gear boxes, then gear it down again, that goes into the linkages for all four legs. And by changing the lanes of the linkages in there, you get a different effect, and also many times I would start with a quick wood prototype, put it together and then make a metal one and so on and so forth and each one of these things would take hundreds of hours to develop and then I eventually made this human walking machine which was all welded you know, creation with the gears and very complicated to get out a single motor that powered four legs that walked from a drill. And so then I would use those measurements and try to design the ratios and figure out how to make the movement work. Jon: Was she a willing participant in this?Ĭarter: Yeah. The next one I made, I wanted to mimic humans, so I remember measuring my sister, how long her hip to her knee and then her knee to her foot. And so I made my first one um maybe my freshman or sophomore year.Ĭarter: You could sit on it and you spin it around and it’s two legs out front that walk and pull you across the ground, very spider like. Um, and so I got obsessed with designing these mechanical legs. And so I think that's also part of why I understand YouTube so well because I spent so much time kind of almost reverse engineering at the time, trying to find content and so now I understand it better. I thought that was so interesting, and so I just spent hours and hours scouring the Internet looking for all the stuff I can find, and there wasn't a lot of stuff. So it creates these features that can walk, and when I saw that I was blown away. He made this rotary mechanism that mimics a leg movement. I get on YouTube, I remember even to this day and if you look at my saved history from back in 2009, I had these videos, I would scour the Internet for all these mechanical linkages where you have different bars connected together and then one spins around and you get other movements so you start with a rotary input like a bicycle pedal, but then you can use linkages to create different outputs, and I found this one Dutch creator Theo Jansen. Jon: In your teens you started to design and create innovative walking devices?Ĭarter: So, this was probably about 2009, so I’m a high school freshman. One of this channel’s most popular videos, “Scuba Diving in Pond for Treasure,” has over 12 million views.Our interview of Carter Sharer for “The Creative Influencer” podcast is available today for download on iTunes. Additionally, the channel has received more than 386 million total views. ![]() Today, more than 2.5 million people subscribe to Sharer’s channel. Most of the videos that were posted following this one were successful in gaining millions of views and likes. The vlog amassed millions of views and became a huge hit. Sharer was seen in a Decemvideo driving his remote-controlled car into the water. Car Drives on Pool” was released, his channel’s popularity soared to new heights. ![]() ![]() After some time, he started to publish regular vlogs in addition to his experiment videos. The success of this video led to the rapid release of other similar experiment videos. He started his YouTube channel on September 24, 2009, and his debut video was “My First Vlog- (Carter Sharer),” which introduced him to his viewers.įollowing this, he posted a science experiment video, “Ninja Weapons Soda Drop Test,” in which he and his brother set Ninja Weapons on fire by dropping soda bottles on them. He was dating Elizabeth Chang, also known as Lizzy Capri, a classmate, but they separated in 2019. Sharer attended Oakton High School, where he received his diploma in 2012, and attended Carnegie Mellon University thereafter, earning a degree in science. Both his brother Stephen and sister Grace, make frequent appearances in his videos. ![]() His father is a renowned lawyer, while his mother is a painter. Carter Sharer was born in Oakton, Virginia, U.S., on October 23, 1993.
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