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Meh... A mash-up site, that took circuits from other sites, and reposted them. They did give credit to those sites, but I'd still be pissed if they took circu
by robotrout 17y ago
Meh... A mash-up site, that took circuits from other sites, and reposted them. They did give credit to those sites, but I'd still be pissed if they took circuits from my site.
However, a community on electronic design (ala sci-electronics-design from the old days) but with a stack-overflow type of interface, but augmented with an integrated simple javascript powered cad package to allow askers and answerers to communicate with consistently rendered drawings of the circuits. Now THAT would be a site I would hang out on.
- joe_bleau 17y agosci.electronics.design still exists, and there's still some good stuff mixed among the nntp spam and political arguments. Good point about an integrated CAD package--while some sed posters do great ASCII art schematics, many do not and it can be hard to follow.
- robotrout 17y agoI visited it a few months ago, and left with a heavy heart. It seems almost useless, with all the spam.
- joe_bleau 17y agoThere are still some good guys buried in the noise: Phil Hobbs, John Larkin, Jim Thompson, Joerg, James Arthur, Tim Wescott, Tim Shoppa, and Spehro Pefhany, among others. I haven't seen much from Winfield Hill lately. Hopefully (fingers crossed) he's too busy working on the 3rd edition of AoE to spend time on usenet.