On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 Rajesh Rajani wrote :
Don't be so hard on them :-). The issue is direction. There are a lot >of good ideas out there, but they lack direction. It comes upon
t= he >more experienced people like you to guide and encourage people with = >ideas. >
I agree with Rajesh. If someone from the industry is = present to lead, a lot of morale boosting takes place.
= >I am not in this space so I may be off here, but I think that the issue= here will be availability of the components, multi layered boards, etc. De= signing custom hardware and getting a board built will be very time consumi= ng unless you are working in some company or know people providing such ser= vice. It may be a better idea to try and acquire some SBC and try to port L= inux on it. Then getting development tools like Emulators/BDM/JTAG debugger= s is going to be another issue unless you already have something at hand.
Actually, Rajesh, I think doing an entire project from scratch, i.e., designing and making the SBC, etc. will be much more fun, challengin= g and interesting as well.
The point being, tha= t doing embedded software on custom hardware
involves a lot of supporting m= aterial and this is the main deterrent to its growth as a hobby.
= I agree, but I'm sure all the ppl on this list will be willing to help, = once an actual project kick-starts.
So , come on guys, &= nbsp; was right...there is too much of bol-bachhan-giri going on. Le= ts do a project. And as I have mentioned before, you have me as a "bak= ra" to exploit(Trust me, I can be an excellent Protege). i'm sure ther= e are others who'll join in as soon as we get things going.
Th= ere will be a hundred ppl contributing, but one of you seniors are gonna ha= ve to take a lead position.
So? What say?
Raseel.
Raseel.
Raseel Bhagat
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