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This sounds disparaging of the "makers" but if your options for a hobby project are: 1) glue shit together or 2) read several thousand pages of documentation
by majormajor 6y ago
This sounds disparaging of the "makers" but if your options for a hobby project are:
1) glue shit together
or
2) read several thousand pages of documentation
who is going to choose the latter?
This is a market that's being poorly served (maybe it's not big enough to justify investment in developing non-shitty products for them?) but blaming the users seems distasteful.
- userbinator 6y agoSoC manuals are not novels, they are not meant to be read front-to-back. You read as much of the documentation as necessary.
- nraynaud 6y agoIt’s still a crap show. I’m working on a beaglebone, i just decided to stay in the PRU for now, because connecting a timer to a DMA to spit bit patterns to a GPIO port without using a processor would involve connecting sections of the manual that are thousands of pages apart.