| Electronics > Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff |
| Should we do a Schematic Bank? |
| << < (6/6) |
| AngraMelo:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on December 15, 2018, 08:20:59 am --- --- Quote from: AngraMelo on December 14, 2018, 12:07:44 pm ---... so I think if we had a pinned post with a voting system for schematics it could work... --- End quote --- Brexit. Trump. --- End quote --- So, after that comment should I post my political view as well? I guess not, right? Ok, if the voting system does not please you. Having a single thread with the schematics wouldnt be of service to the blog? Instead of having them scattered around? |
| Kleinstein:
The forum part is not really good to work as a kind of data-base, as the search functions are not very specific and added comments add to the mess that a list of schematics would already be. So it would be more like a forum thread to discuss each circuit if needed. I think the task would more or less end in a mess with a few good circuits and a lot of buggy ones. Even an original good circuit could end up bad with small changes that were added in good faith, but not really tested. There are already a few such systems that try to offer an overview of circuits. In principle the setup is usually OK with first some hierarchical sorting (e.g amplifiers , voltage regulator, oscillators,...) and than separate pages for each circuit. However there are way to many bad circuits and essentially the same circuit over and over again with a different type of transistor or OP. So to make such a thing work it would need quite some work to care for quality. My fear is a community based quality control would not work. Another problem is old parts getting obsolete - .e.g. a circuit build around the old LM121 or MC1466 is not directly useful today. In theory yes - but it would need at least a few people to really spend serious time on this. |
| T3sl4co1l:
The problem is, with no funding, such a system depends upon democratic means. The 90-10 rule applies here just as anywhere else. 90% of this community are interested in the subject, or the videos, or this community, but are non-technical. 10% of the technical population, in turn, is highly technical, and 10% of them are expert-level technical. To curate a technical collection, we want the opinion of those technically inclined. The 10%, at least, if not the 1%, or preferably the 0.1%. At the very least, this is not a system that can produce useful results with the usual democratic processes. An all-inclusive vote will only turn up shiny, useful-sounding, well-promoted things. But unlikely anything that works, or works well, in a technical sense. In other words, the disappointing kind of results you get from any real-world political process... Mind, this process does work nicely, when the 90% have an applicable opinion of the material. Reddit, Imgur and such are sorted this way, which works fantastically for casual, amusing things like cat pictures. We're talking a very different distribution of knowledge, here. It's also not a system where we can use a democratic representational process. If we vote on who we think are the experts, we'll get more self-promoters and bullshitters than actual experts. We could have the self-proclaimed "experts" vote on other experts, but that forms an in-group, a clique, and you'll probably get everyone else complaining that it's a bunch of elitists or intellectuals. Well, that shows a number of problems, not all of them the fault of said group. But that's the reality of life in the western world... What would be needed, is 1. some means of assessing who is legitimately in that technical category, and 2. obtaining their opinions without being irritating or demanding. Tim |
| Circlotron:
Maybe a *project* bank, where the schematic *and* an actual working model has to be posted, that the user themself has constructed and debugged. That would sort out the wheat from the chaff. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Previous page |