So I think your real problem has absolutely zero to do with arduino or
microcontrollers.
Also interesting you criticize people for wasting your time. People use
libraries to save time. There's little point in poring over 15,000 pages
of chinese datasheets just to get a display to light if someone has done
it already.
If your time is so valuable as you so frequently emphasize, then you
shouldn't criticize people for trying to save their own time.
-Dan
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, John Smout wrote:
A high proportion of the people who have wanted to rape my time and (very
limited) ability electronic-wise are artists and designers. Which saddens me
because I consider myself first and foremost a visual arty type person. At any
rate it???s how I have always earned my living until I retired last year. If
you want to struggle in life and starve at times any kind of artistic design
career is a good way to go.
I have tended in recent years to say to these people, who usually have seen
something of mine that they want to incorporate into something of theirs and
which will involve a redesign of some kind and a new PCB: ???OK let???s do it,
but let's make two prototypes, one for you to keep and one for me. No money
changes hands. I???ll do the circuitry if you will make and give me one of
whatever it is that you are making.???
The above angle, which seem perfectly reasonable to me, got me total outrage
from a couple of different people - how dare I say my trivial work is as
important as their great artistic vision? Don???t I know what precious
brainpower has gone into their wonderful oevres? Which of course they cannot do
unless someone makes their idea actually work for them. Well I have a backlog
of my own ideas to bring to fruition, and while I am doing those I get other
ideas, so why do I want to spend the rest of my life with these people?
On the other end of the spectrum, I have had to stop helping schoolchildren who
want to use something of mine in a project. I have a real soft spot for helping
children, but the amount of blown chips and free replacements I???ve sent out,
together with giving them warnings about static and overheating, has totally
fallen on deaf ears. This is a real pity and I wish I could do more, but again
it is down to available time. It would be quicker to do the kids??? projects
for them, but that is not what education is about and we encourage the same
???Want it all now and done for me??? gratification syndrome if we send kids a
working module.
Having a great idea is the first step, not the last. If there is a vision then the person
having it should do whatever he or she needs to do to make it happen, including learning
how to do it if they want to say it is their own work. A lot of not-very-good-ideas would
be weeded out at this stage. "Is the result really worth the personal effort?"
is a question that rapidly arises if one relies on one???s own resources?
John S
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