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You can build most of the things you own yourself. It's just that sometimes it's a) not worth your time, you'd rather skip the initial step and start building a
by konart 4y ago
You can build most of the things you own yourself. It's just that sometimes it's a) not worth your time, you'd rather skip the initial step and start building around the ready tool b) this thing actually looks and feels much better than you garage kit. Some people do care.
This is like the usual flame war about macbooks vs everything else.
- prmoustache 4y agoAll I see is it remove the motivation barrier and just create waste for the sake of creating waste. Another devices that people buy, tinker with it a few hours then sit in a drawer for years until it will be binned. More than a nice hacking tool, this is a pollution and waste of resources tool. There is nothing positive about that.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoWell sure, but if you just need one feature (eg. infrared "tv-b-gone"), and you already have an arduino at home, you just need an infrared led. https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/mike-murray2/homemade-tv-b-gone-ee08c7 https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/mike-murray2/homemade-t... If you want to open garage doors, you just need a cc1101 and an esp8266 https://github.com/gusgorman402/RFmoggy https://github.com/gusgorman402/RFmoggy If you want to clone rfid cards, you need one of the cheap readers, an empty card an an arduino https://github.com/miguelbalboa/rfid/blob/master/examples/RFID-Cloner/RFID-Cloner.ino https://github.com/miguelbalboa/rfid/blob/master/examples/RF... Yes, it's ugly, but it's cheap.