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How to share and document hobby projects today?

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Electro Fan:

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--- Quote from: Electro Fan on October 03, 2020, 03:16:48 am ---This is a very good site here at EEVblog - good users, content, forum organization, moderation. 

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Yes, absolutely.


--- Quote ---Maybe there is a need or opportunity for Dave to add a few tools to help users better blog projects. 

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No, please. This is not a blogging site, but a forum.
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Technically, this is a forum inside EEVblog.  :)


--- Quote ---It is meant for dialog,

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Point well taken.  :-+


But, just sayin', if Dave wanted to add blog-like tools to, for example, just the project forum or to a separate/new "blog forum", users with more in-depth and/or ongoing projects could post their projects there and users who only want dialog could converse in all the other forums. Not sure what the downside would be if the dialog nature (which is very valuable and enjoyable) is preserved in general.  If we look at the arc of information tools it's pretty clear that more information rich content in various forms becomes increasingly the norm.  If EEVblog doesn't want to seed an opening for a competitor it might want to keep the door open to some new level of publishing/information management.  No doubt, simple can be elegant but I wouldn't completely dismiss adopting tools that make previously difficult tasks easier.  What makes EEVblog special (in addition to Dave and the concept) is the user community.  EEVblog has built something pretty great, for sure.  But as great as it is there will always be some tension between preserving the status quo and moving in a direction that opens new opportunity.  If people want to go deeper on projects and it doesn't impede the flow of other threads, tools/capabilities that make it possible could attract still more thoughtful/helpful/friendly/enthusiastic users.  More users more content, more content more users.  Appropriate organization and tools could keep the desirable attributes and allow for new growth.  Just some thoughts.  No need to rush into anything.  We could start with drag and drop re-ordering of attachments, or some such thing.  :)

basinstreetdesign:

--- Quote from: HattedSquirrel on October 02, 2020, 09:36:33 pm ---I am wondering what is the best way to share and document your elaborate hobby projects in the modern times?
I often do quite comprehensive projects in my spare time that include electronic design files, 3D printing models, source code, sewing patters and much more in a single project. And I don't feel IG, Twitter or Fabebook is the right platform to share such stuff. But what is it today?

Initially I thought a blog for progress reports and static sites for finished projects was a good way to go, looked into Wordpress and fell into despair after a few weeks because nothing worked even remotely as I wanted it to. Tutorials seem to target very different use cases. So I started looking at websites of other makers, to see how they do it. But all I found is: They are all deserted and/or broken.
Examples?
eevblog.com Go to Projects->µSupply. The layout falls appart. Then look at the comments of any entry that works: Mostly spam.
maker.pro Updates several times a week, but zero likes and comments. In many articles the images are missing.
simonegiertz.com Website works but is merely more than 5 links to external sites.
If feels so weird. Like in a post-apocalyptic movie. Some automatism still pushes content to websites that nobody cared for since decades. They slowly fade away in the online equivalent of an abandoned factory complex.

So my question stands:
What is a good way to make your own hobby projects publicy available if you are not going full business and therefore can't invest the time effort and hard work into beeing in every possible youtube collaboration and every possible podcast with merch store and all the other hard publicity work?

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It sounds like you just want to do what I do:  share your experience building/hacking something for the sake of the educational factor with links to possible open-source hw/sw.  I didn't want the hassle/expense of dealing with html creation or maintaining my own fully custom site but wanted to share what my experiences were.  Being able to add to the post(s) from day to day or week to week was desireable without having to maintain many pix or other documents on someone else's site was needed for me.

What I do is to thoroughly document my projects and post the pictures to imgur.com as an album with much explanations of what each picture is all about.  Imgur.com will also host short videos as part of the album.  Source material can be put in github or similar, though to be honest I have never done that, yet.

When you want to brag display your progress then just post a short description and a link to the album on a site like here.  Here's one:  :-[ https://imgur.com/a/Buj8WfD  :-[  Or if you are into radio restoration, as I am, then maybe https://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/index.php is better.

I have a few projects on instructables.com, such as https://www.instructables.com/Tube-Power-Supply/ but I have found that the moderators there don't like the use of ad-hoc materials or design-on-the-fly.  They prefer a "recipe" approach using materials that can be readily had from several suppliers such as DigiKey.  I was taken to task over my use of the phrase "what I had laying around" to solve a problem.  But it is just that kind of thinking on your feet that I enjoy while building a project.

Good luck!

Bud:
Please run your own site, the mods have enough job here.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: MosherIV on October 03, 2020, 09:47:03 am ---What about instructables.com ?
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You mean destructables?
Are there any good projects on that site?

Most of the ones I've seen there contain big errors, which render them minimally functional and often dangerous, such as the one which uses germicidal, UVC lamps for photoresist exposure, rather than blacklight, UVA tubes. :palm: I'm sure plenty of people notified the author (I don't have an instructables account, otherwise I would have done it myself) but they didn't rectify it.


--- Quote from: Benta on October 02, 2020, 11:04:53 pm ---Interesting question. And I don't have a good answer.

An example: if you share a circuit here on eevblog, you'll be attacked by people who do not understand the friendly concept of sharing, but just want to boost their own ego:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/oshw/how-to-programmable-divide-by-n-counters-using-standard-logic/
On top of that with an overly pretentious user name.

I've not found another place for sharing this kind of stuff, but am still looking.

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You'll get that where ever you decide to share your project. The upside is you might get some suggestions about how it can be improved, even if they're often dished out without any tact or diplomacy.

It's always important to be thick skinned when posting a project online because it will be picked apart to some degree. There's no safe space to share your project. If you're easilly offended, keep it to yourself.

Ed.Kloonk:
Seems like the appropriate place to me. Says so right on the index page.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/

--- Quote ---Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff

Show off your projects or other stuff you are working on. Talk about designs or ideas, ask technical questions, and share technical information. This is the big catch-all thread for anything electronic.
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