This has always been the case since the beginning of time and arduino
changes nothing.
-Dan
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, jb-electronics wrote:
I also get a lot of emails from people inquiring qhether I can build
something for them. Only in a few cases there is someone who tried to
understand the schematic and has a specific problem. Most of the times the
inquiries are of the form "Hey that is cool. I want something like that, but
with these specific modifications. Can you build this and that for me?"
While I appreciate the positive feedback, and even more appreciate the fact
that electronics is still considered "cool", here is what worries me: we live
in a society where everything has to be available at all times. Instant
gratification. But this is not how science works. Goalposts have to be set,
and then you have to spend some time to reach them. And it will be a piece of
work. But when you get there, it is all worth it. Other goalposts you will
never reach, and that is fine, too.
I just have a problem with this "science is cool" mentality, because it is
often understood as "science is easy." Electronics kits with everything
pre-installed, in my opinion, should therefore be used with care.
Cheers
Jens
On 1/24/2018 2:45 AM, John Smout wrote:
On 24 Jan 2018, at 00:23, Dan Hollis <[email protected]> wrote:
Why is it perfectly ok for people to use libc, ncurses, pthread, pcre,
opengl, etc on linux but using an i2c library on arduino is somehow
verboten?
I don’t think it is forbidden at all, but it is my observation that the
bulk of enquiries I get through my website are from empty vessels making
the loudest noise. Empty because they don’t have any personal knowledge
of their own. They don’t feel they have the time or inclination to learn
either, but are quite happy to get me to waste my time on their behalf if
at all possible. Whatever happened to the sheer joy of getting a blinky
light to flash by one’s own efforts?
I am sure there are millions of people happy to code up and document their
projects and annotate their libraries for the benefit of others and I am
sure many people are grateful to take and use what they can from them. All
is well in heaven and the gods can rest easy. I have no problem myself in
sharing or being generous.
Maybe I have been unlucky in my experience, but often when I help someone
whom I do not know it turns sour on me. As far as they are concerned I can
gratify their needs but rarely does anyone consider how it might impinge on
my available time and if I don’t give continued support to their projects
people have turned ugly and rude very quickly. The level of this is in
inverse proportion to people’s ability to help themselves. I fear that a
grab-it-off the-shelf-ready-made culture only encourages this attitude.
John S
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