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| HattedSquirrel:
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? |
| Benta:
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. |
| greenpossum:
Have a look at hackaday.io Nice community there. |
| tkamiya:
Hackaday main website; however, has a very abusive culture. Just read some comments (to some projects) and you'll see. |
| Electro Fan:
This looks pretty good. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/120757gpu-fpga-project/ It’s not mega fancy, feature rich, and super flexible in terms of what you can do with the layout but the price is pretty affordable and you start with some amount of likely interested and knowledgeable users. If you want more publishing control you will probably have to undertake more publishing/mgmt responsibility. Maybe look at hosting packages that give you lots of site/blog feature templates and editing capabilities but that don’t require coding everything from scratch. The challenge would be in attracting visitors. If you build your own site/blog you might open a thread with some ongoing updates/Q&A here in the Other Blogs section so you can make it easy to stay connected to EEVers. |
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