| ??? 02/22/11 07:45 Read: times |
#181232 - My experience Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Peters said:
There is a school of thought that says, "get the young hobbyist interested in a component/software package/brand of pencil as a student, and he/she will prefer to use that $THING when hired into a professional gig." That might be somewhat true, but once the new engineer is confronted with any of several realities ("those parts are too expensive"/"they are not a preferred supplier for $ARBITRARY reason" etc) that goes out the window. You are assuming that this student/hobbyist goes into somewhere with some established expertise where these things can be explained? I see quite a few cases where this is clearly not the case: someone has had a bright idea or "invention", lashed together some "hobby-magazine" stuff, started a company, demonstrated it to investors - and now "just" (sic) wants it "tidying up a bit" ready for mass production in China... It's amazing how many of these people are experts in their own field, but somehow think that electronics/firmware is something that anyone can do. I think it's not helped by things like this: Miro Samek said:
Arduino (see arduino.cc) is an open-source electronics prototyping platform, designed to make digital electronics more accessible to non-specialists in multidisciplinary (sic) projects.
http://embeddedgurus.com/state-spa...d-arduino/ Unfortunately, I think "multidisciplinary" here tends to mean "all the necessary disciplines except the electronics/software" Miro Samek also said:
Arduino lowers the barrier of entry to the field of modern microelectronics I think that should say, "gives the illusion of lowering the barrier" - it actually just delays the inevitable... |
