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| bd139:
It's just normal trash media these days: 1. Vague wordy shit 2. Wraps useless crap 3. Split it into N parts to scale up revenue from sponsors 4. shit show comment threads Best thing you can do is just walk away :-// |
| Fred27:
Wow. Today Hackaday has reached a new low. It's bad enough that it's worth sharing. Yes - you too can now connect an LED via a switch to a battery. https://hackaday.com/2020/12/13/little-red-night-light-is-just-right/ |
| Yansi:
Why so much annoyed by that? Just ignore it. I just also walk away any time i see some *duino sh..stuff instead of bitchin' how bad it is. It's not even worth that much. Just let it go, today's "maker" community is anything but electrical engineers, or what once electronics hobbyists were. The only thing that really bothers me if some incompetent *duino folk presents himself as an electrical (or whatever else) engineer. |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: Fred27 on December 14, 2020, 01:22:03 pm ---Wow. Today Hackaday has reached a new low. It's bad enough that it's worth sharing. Yes - you too can now connect an LED via a switch to a battery. https://hackaday.com/2020/12/13/little-red-night-light-is-just-right/ --- End quote --- Oh that's the Maker cult that one is. They made a shit torch, something I'd expect from an 8 year old, listed it on instructables, this was picked up by a shite aggregator and everyone's pious self-congratulationary handjobbery goes full whack. --- Quote from: Yansi on December 14, 2020, 01:25:39 pm ---The only thing that really bothers me if some incompetent *duino folk presents himself as an electrical (or whatever else) engineer. --- End quote --- The problem is that's exactly what a lot of people do. People don't know what actual engineers do so the person doing this shit looks like a magician from the future and likes that image. Eventually some day someone asks them a question which requires more than stitching shit together with dupont cables and cutting and pasting some shit from someone else who already did the leg work. Then their universe collapses. Edit: a canonical example of this was a former boss of mine who was a software dude. He got some traffic lights and wanted to wire them up to our build server so we had a red/green status light. So he went and bought a whole load of stuff from Maplin at the time and proceeded to just bodge it up with tape and dupont wires and all sorts. This was mains powered. When he went home that night, we looked at it and found it was a basic death trap fire hazard from hell. It disappeared that night never to be seen again. A little knowledge is dangerous. |
| mikerj:
--- Quote from: Fred27 on December 14, 2020, 01:22:03 pm ---Wow. Today Hackaday has reached a new low. It's bad enough that it's worth sharing. Yes - you too can now connect an LED via a switch to a battery. https://hackaday.com/2020/12/13/little-red-night-light-is-just-right/ --- End quote --- That project is surely more about the 3D printed design with ball/socket joint to aim the light rather than the circuit? |
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