Re:Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
by yitchelle on Saturday June 08, 2019 @02:57AM
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>> The world needs more good software than another person making toy electronics.
Rather sad to read that electronics is thought of as a toy. It is the "body" which software runs on. I agree cute electronics is probably not that useful but the are many others.
Re:Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
by worldsayshi on Saturday June 08, 2019 @05:17AM
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Perhaps it's because you need to invest so much more time to make something useful in hardware. In software it's still possible to make small useful projects.
Re:Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
by Tempest1981 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @02:00PM
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Hardware is, well, hard. But the kits available can make it much easier and more approachable. You just need to learn the ecosystem -- like learning a computer language and development environment.
Re:Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
by amelius on Saturday June 08, 2019 @05:18AM
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In the embedded world, electronics is a useful skill. Also RF design or low power design are very valuable skills.
Re:Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
by tastroder on Saturday June 08, 2019 @06:30AM
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You kind of seem to miss the major point of stuff being a hobby or interest in the first place. For other people the enjoyment comes from the process of making and understanding, not necessarily having a shiny end product.
For hobby projects (both software and hardware) I generally don't care if they leave my house or if one or thousands see them, that's something I do for me, not to fulfill some hypothetical need of the world.
I see them as a hobby for electronics people, non-programmer computer types, or just for fun for anyone. But given a choice between some cute electronic that won't leave my house and building a web or github based side project that thousands of people could potentially use, I'd go with the latter every time.
I say that after giving up on my own gaming electronics thing I was building until I realized my time could be better spent and I could buy a finished one from China for half the price.