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| Sonic2k:
I had a look at this hackaday.io site today and then I found this forum post. This is my take on the whole "makerspace" and "hackerspace" that's suddenly popped up in recent years. I think its all glam, in the same sense as reality TV. I have seen absolute rubbish get all the attention on hackaday.io. There is an argument that these people are not professionals, but there's also a fine line between someone who is a hobbyist and a professional. Beneath all of them is the makerspace. Today's hobbyists are not capable of going head to head with hobbyists that were around in the 80s when I was growing up. In the main I have found that its programmers, IT people who fancy themselves as electronics engineers that go into this space. Then you have also, these people raised on reality TV and YouTube, that go and buy an Arduino, use the examples to do things and then proclaim they're God's gift to mankind. Where were all these people when I put in all the hard graft to figure out the 8051 microcontroller without no internet resources and just a photocopy of the reference manual? All their methods are shocking... they work untidy, and I've said it before... this week past in fact. Some clever bloke thought it was OK to run a Z-80 MCU from the mains using a zener-resistor dropper. When I said that the entire system is at mains potential and a lethal shock hazard. I got banned. |
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