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Calling all Electrical Engineers

13 points by proee 16y ago

We're excited to announce that EEWeb, our flagship electrical engineering community, is about to go live. If you're a hardware design engineer or electronics enthusiast, we'd love for you to sign up for our an invite. Focus areas of our community include: * Hardware Projects * Analog Design * RF Design * Power Management * Embedded Design * Test & Measure * Components * PCB Design http://www.eeweb.com/contact-us/invite/

asynchronous13 16y ago
Is there any content available? Why would I want to request an invite? What does eeweb offer that is not offered by a site such as Physics Forums? These are genuine questions. Before I request an invitation to something, I would like to know more about what it is I'm signing up for.
- proee 16y ago
  EEWeb is focused on the hardware design community - we have an online toolbox, daily featured sections, and even our own electrical engineering comic. Members can also setup their own profile to document and share hardware related articles and projects.
- asmithmd1 16y ago
  "Let us know about your technical background and interests and why you'd like to join." You tell me, why would I like to join? This sentence strikes my as having slightly the wrong tone. You should be selling me about how great this site is going to be and why I should keep coming back
  - proee 16y ago
    Good point. This invite page was originally setup to screen our beta testers. We wanted to make sure we courted the right type of person.
  - nzmsv 16y ago
    Exactly. Not to mention 'enthusiests' in the very first sentence, and links to content that aren't actually links. Why would I want to type not only my contact info, but my life story into a site that looks like a sign-up form for a spam list?
    - reemrevnivek 16y ago
      I haven't found any clause stating what they're going to do with my email either - Neither the site nor their company (http://www.aspenlabs.com/ http://www.aspenlabs.com/) has much of any information up. At least they give an address and a phone number on their company site where they can be contacted if I start getting spammed.
joezydeco 16y ago
How is this different than http://www.eetimes.com http://www.eetimes.com?
- proee 16y ago
  Our focus is on the engineering community where you can setup your own engineering profile, document and share hardware projects, and follow other engineers.
  - sebg 16y ago
    so facebook / basecamp for the EE crowd?
    - proee 16y ago
      Exactly, I just added a screenshot of my profile page. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png
      - sebg 16y ago
        Got it - Would be worth reaching out to the octoparts guys. They could give you some good feedback.
proee 16y ago
We're excited to announce that we'll be launching our flagship electrical engineering community next week called "EEWeb". The focus of this community is to create a place for hardware design engineers to call home. Our site includes an online toolbox, daily featured sections, community driven articles and projects, and custom engineer profiles where you can follow other engineers based on your interest tags. You can see a screenshot of our homepage here. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb.png Example Engineer Profile. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png
- anamax 16y ago
  > Our site includes an online toolbox, daily featured sections, community driven articles and projects, and custom engineer profiles where you can follow other engineers based on your interest tags. Do many people in other disciplines do something like this? Serious question - where are some examples?
  - reemrevnivek 16y ago
    Computer Engineers and Programmers use http://Stackoverflow.com/ http://Stackoverflow.com/ for questions and answers. It's not as comprehensive as this site is, but there are other toolboxes, blogs, and profile sites which are perfectly accessible, even though they're not on one page. Electronics and Robotics - http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ - is a question and answer site for electronic engineers. It already has over a thousand users and questions, and it's all up for viewing right now - No invites required. It is in beta, but that doesn't mean a lot - It's been running in some form for about a year, and it's due for launch just before New Years Day). It doesn't look as polished as this site, because the content is created in users' spare time for immediate use, not in preparation for screen captures. If you're reluctant to sign up for EEWeb, enjoy using Stackoverflow, or want another source for getting answers to your electronic engineering questions (or all of the above), you should check it out.
    - anamax 16y ago
reemrevnivek 16y ago
The bottom of the page reads: Copyright 2010, Aspen Labs, LLC Does this mean that you own any designs, answers, projects etc. that I upload? When I look at the "Request Invite" page, the first thing I see a spelling error ("enthusiests") in the first sentence, and this claim is the last. Not exactly encouraging. I'd much rather see some sort of open license, like a Creative Commons license of some kind.

13 points by proee 16y ago

asynchronous13 16y ago

Is there any content available? Why would I want to request an invite? What does eeweb offer that is not offered by a site such as Physics Forums? These are genuine questions. Before I request an invitation to something, I would like to know more about what it is I'm signing up for.

proee 16y ago
EEWeb is focused on the hardware design community - we have an online toolbox, daily featured sections, and even our own electrical engineering comic. Members can also setup their own profile to document and share hardware related articles and projects.
asmithmd1 16y ago
"Let us know about your technical background and interests and why you'd like to join." You tell me, why would I like to join? This sentence strikes my as having slightly the wrong tone. You should be selling me about how great this site is going to be and why I should keep coming back
- proee 16y ago
  Good point. This invite page was originally setup to screen our beta testers. We wanted to make sure we courted the right type of person.
- nzmsv 16y ago
  Exactly. Not to mention 'enthusiests' in the very first sentence, and links to content that aren't actually links. Why would I want to type not only my contact info, but my life story into a site that looks like a sign-up form for a spam list?
  - reemrevnivek 16y ago
    I haven't found any clause stating what they're going to do with my email either - Neither the site nor their company (http://www.aspenlabs.com/ http://www.aspenlabs.com/) has much of any information up. At least they give an address and a phone number on their company site where they can be contacted if I start getting spammed.

joezydeco 16y ago

How is this different than http://www.eetimes.com http://www.eetimes.com?

proee 16y ago
Our focus is on the engineering community where you can setup your own engineering profile, document and share hardware projects, and follow other engineers.
- sebg 16y ago
  so facebook / basecamp for the EE crowd?
  - proee 16y ago
    Exactly, I just added a screenshot of my profile page. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png
    - sebg 16y ago
      Got it - Would be worth reaching out to the octoparts guys. They could give you some good feedback.

proee 16y ago

We're excited to announce that we'll be launching our flagship electrical engineering community next week called "EEWeb". The focus of this community is to create a place for hardware design engineers to call home. Our site includes an online toolbox, daily featured sections, community driven articles and projects, and custom engineer profiles where you can follow other engineers based on your interest tags. You can see a screenshot of our homepage here. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb.png Example Engineer Profile. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png

anamax 16y ago
> Our site includes an online toolbox, daily featured sections, community driven articles and projects, and custom engineer profiles where you can follow other engineers based on your interest tags. Do many people in other disciplines do something like this? Serious question - where are some examples?
- reemrevnivek 16y ago
  Computer Engineers and Programmers use http://Stackoverflow.com/ http://Stackoverflow.com/ for questions and answers. It's not as comprehensive as this site is, but there are other toolboxes, blogs, and profile sites which are perfectly accessible, even though they're not on one page. Electronics and Robotics - http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ - is a question and answer site for electronic engineers. It already has over a thousand users and questions, and it's all up for viewing right now - No invites required. It is in beta, but that doesn't mean a lot - It's been running in some form for about a year, and it's due for launch just before New Years Day). It doesn't look as polished as this site, because the content is created in users' spare time for immediate use, not in preparation for screen captures. If you're reluctant to sign up for EEWeb, enjoy using Stackoverflow, or want another source for getting answers to your electronic engineering questions (or all of the above), you should check it out.
  - anamax 16y ago

reemrevnivek 16y ago

The bottom of the page reads: Copyright 2010, Aspen Labs, LLC Does this mean that you own any designs, answers, projects etc. that I upload? When I look at the "Request Invite" page, the first thing I see a spelling error ("enthusiests") in the first sentence, and this claim is the last. Not exactly encouraging. I'd much rather see some sort of open license, like a Creative Commons license of some kind.