NoobMan Wrote:
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> So please do it like the arduino guys and rest of
> world did it: give fair warning - and cross your
> fingers, hope for the best.
> And thats it. If you think it through all in all,
> thats a very good solution, really :)
Well, now you have hit a pet peeve of mine. :X Compared to the professional stuff I work with, the Arduino/Reprap stuff is pretty amateur and at times laughable. Simplicity is all very well, but it translates to people blowing up boards and generally unreliable operation.
I can see how it happened, amateurs who don't really know any better cobble together stuff from standard components and hack some software and it all "sorta works". Then they spend forever trying to fix niggling little issues by stirring the pot, but never really advancing.
So I think the "Arduino way" is very amateur and for a small amount of effort can be easily improved on, I can't take "it's ok to be as bad as everything else and its impossible to improve" as very useful advice. RepRap is supposed to be about innovation, it truly will get stuck in a rut of mediocre implementations if people follow your advice.
I know it can be improved, because the products my company make have all inputs protected to +/- 24V, and we have a tight cost and size budget.
Ok, rant over :)
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> So please do it like the arduino guys and rest of
> world did it: give fair warning - and cross your
> fingers, hope for the best.
> And thats it. If you think it through all in all,
> thats a very good solution, really :)
Well, now you have hit a pet peeve of mine. :X Compared to the professional stuff I work with, the Arduino/Reprap stuff is pretty amateur and at times laughable. Simplicity is all very well, but it translates to people blowing up boards and generally unreliable operation.
I can see how it happened, amateurs who don't really know any better cobble together stuff from standard components and hack some software and it all "sorta works". Then they spend forever trying to fix niggling little issues by stirring the pot, but never really advancing.
So I think the "Arduino way" is very amateur and for a small amount of effort can be easily improved on, I can't take "it's ok to be as bad as everything else and its impossible to improve" as very useful advice. RepRap is supposed to be about innovation, it truly will get stuck in a rut of mediocre implementations if people follow your advice.
I know it can be improved, because the products my company make have all inputs protected to +/- 24V, and we have a tight cost and size budget.
Ok, rant over :)