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Fellowship of the Traveling Junkbox: OPEN

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
edited 2010-04-07 03:01 in General Discussion
@mikediv Thank you for allowing us to hijack your thread!

The Fellowship of the Traveling Junkbox is open and ready for business!
details: www.savagecircuits.com/forums/showthread.php?108-Fellowship-of-the-Traveling-Junkbox

For the moment we going to keep it stateside [noparse]:([/noparse] But I'm open for discussion to include our peers across the ocean soon.
(You guys should get something going over there as well, it would be cool to have boxes trade sides at some point!)

OBC

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-04-03 19:44
    I have just joined the group. Lucky for me I am already a Savage Circuits forum member.

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  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2010-04-05 04:56
    Oh, I have to do this. What a great idea!!

    I've got goodies to stuff in there, so no problem. It's morbid curiosity as to what will arrive!!

    I think the box should have a log book in it. People can write stories, talk about what they found, leave best wishes, code, etc...

    Edit: I see "4. Add your name to the log included in the box. Name, forum alias, city, and comments" [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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    Post Edited (potatohead) : 4/5/2010 8:21:17 AM GMT
  • LuckyLucky Posts: 98
    edited 2010-04-05 05:45
    I requested to join, but whats with the Propeller Powered forum? Are you trying to take thunder away from the prop forum here? shocked.gif

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  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2010-04-05 06:00
    Not at all. OBC is just wanting to send a little traffic their way. It's a good thing all the way around. The activity level here won't change at all. Frankly, I don't think it's actually possible to shake this community. The operator of that venue has a different focus, and that might attract people we wouldn't otherwise see into Propeller.

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2010-04-05 16:19
    No, the intent is to help seed another forum not diminish what is happening here. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    We've already attracted a Propeller user that wasn't part of the "official" forums so it's all as Potato says.

    OBC

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  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2010-04-05 16:38
    Sounds fun to me! I put in a request.

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2010-04-05 17:14
    I think I forgot to copy my thread over from the old forums that explained the difference between the Parallax Forums and the Savage Circuits Forums. The Parallax Forums are a Support Forums desgned solely for the support of Parallax Products. The Propeller was actually the first stage in moving toward a more community based approach, followed by the Hydra and Sensor forums. The Propeller forum started out primarily as a support and even input forum while the Propeller Chip gained acceptance and the development tools matured. But through a peroid of time it was difficult for some new members moving into that forum to get assistance when the majority of discussion was about projects and ideas. A few senior members stepped up and filled that gap and as a result it is quite the mixed bag now. In all honesty I have trouble keeping up with the messages sometimes because there are so many support posts and just as many, if not more, project and idea threads.

    The Savage Circuits site was originally nothing more than a showcase of my own projects, but I had always wanted to involve more people and especially get more people interested in the hobby. Now the site is prepared for that, but it has gone through a lot of changes to get to this point. Because of that 1/2 of the member base is currently inactive. As a moderator of these forums I have noticed on occasion support questions being overlooked due to someone's project in progress being posted or something else that catches attention easier than someone asking for help. I always thought it would be nice to have a place where members could talk about their projects, showcase them and have general discussion about them and theory without taking away from the members here who could use some real help. I stopped posting about Savage Circuits here a while ago and removed my sig line that mentioned it.

    Now that the site is fully functional, *not* going to change, and has a pretty good member base to work toward maturing I am going to continue what I originally did to get the site discovered. That is keep releasing tutorial and informational videos and posting more projects with complete details. I certainly don't want to take anything away from the Parallax Forums. I was merely trying to fill a niche that had not been.

    OBC's forum is listed as a SIG. He is fully in control of it and the content in that sense could be considered independant of the overall site since there is a specific focus there. The same applies for the Savage Circuits Completed Projects and Savage Circuits TV (new episode being released this evening). They have their own special place. Anyway, everyone here is welcome to join us. As soon as a larger % of members becomes active again I am going to start posting some contests with some prizes. Member participation will be a requirement. Sadly with all the recent changes (changes of software followed by host changes) several members have not been back. Needless to say I will never host anything on GoDaddy.com again.

    As a side-note, it is ideas like this travelling Junk Box that really give me that feeling of community more than anything else.· That so many strangers with a similar interest can reach out to help their fellow hackers and hobbyists is inspiring and the spirit of my website.·

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    Post Edited (Chris Savage (Parallax)) : 4/5/2010 5:20:51 PM GMT
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2010-04-05 18:44
    The "Traveling Junkbox" just launched! Post office just took it off my hands.

    All of those who subscribed over the weekend have already gotten their accounts approved!
    You need to head back to Savage Circuits and put your address in the list. Our group will appear
    at the bottom of the forum listings once you have been approved.

    OBC

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-04-05 21:16
    That Savage Circuits forum is indeed savage! It put me through about 25 cycles of human recognition when I could not remember my password.... even when I knew I was entering the right characters! THEN it refused to send me my email for 15 minutes! NOW it won't let me log in!!!! Grrrrrr............

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  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2010-04-06 00:39
    @microcontrolled,

    Savage Circuits usually works best for me if I check the "remember me" box (which I am sure - leaves me a little cookie).

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-04-06 13:04
    It's been worked out. Chris has great service. wink.gif

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2010-04-06 16:41
    @Whit - The site is highly dependant on cookies I'm afraid.

    @microcontrolled - Glad I saw your new reply today, after your post yesterday I was expecting to see your avatar change so that the 8-bit micro was replaced with a the Savage Circuits logo.· tongue.gif

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  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2010-04-06 18:07
    BTW: Nice work Chris. The forum works, and I found it operates just fine.

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2010-04-06 18:45
    Thank you. I really appreciate the feedback. I have been working hard for months to provide a site for hackers & hobbyists alike to share their projects, ideas and designs without having to worry about getting mixed into mass tech support threads. As usual if you have any thoughts, comments, suggestions, feedback, etc. Please let me know. The site's far from perfect. Half the members being listed as inactive proves that. =(

    P.S. - I showed my wife your avatar and she busted up laughing.

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-04-06 19:01
    (I am assuming you were talking about Potatoheads avatar) It made me crack up too!! tongue.gif

    I like the forum. I always think of it as a "vintage" electronics forum, but it is nice. I noticed you discuss other micro's on there, so I refrained from using my Parallax forums avatar. smile.gif

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2010-04-06 20:35
    @mc - Yes, I was referring to Potatohead's avatar. Yours is cool too. I grew up reading Calvin & Hobbes. Still putting the final touches on my transmorgrifier ray gun. I don't know if I'd call it vintage anymore. I thought about that me having started on the VIC-20 and Apple, but also having used Kaypro and KIM-1...yet there are so many members on the Parallax forums here who have used a punch card machine that when I stop to think about it, I had it pretty darn good. But yeah, my forums are platform independant. Inherently there will be a majority of Parallax members/customers, but some are fluent in other platforms, including the arduino. All are welcome. Sometimes ideas and the external part solutions to them are more important than the microcontroller. So I may see an Arduino project that really catches my interest. But if I build it, it will be on a BASIC Stamp or Propeller chip. =)

    There I go again, hijacking OBC's thread.

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  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2010-04-07 03:01
    Yeah, isn't that thing great? And it's only 30K!! Resolution is low enough, I should get the prop to display it. I ran into a user of that avatar on another venue, and instantly cracked up, then sent a message asking to "infringe" [noparse]:)[/noparse] I've always been a sucker for simple, fun animation.

    Sidebar: To me, the word "avatar" always tweaks me a little.

    No suggestions for the site at the moment. Runs great, now it's just the honeypot. Let's hope for the "build it and they will come" factor to kick in. Ideally, we get a new crowd to enjoy [noparse]:)[/noparse] IMHO, the first chance you get, be sure and start plugging interesting goings on at the usual haunts. It won't take too many of those to draw that second tier crowd.

    IMHO, half being inactive isn't a big deal. All it's going to take is a few nice projects followed by some linkage. That will happen soon enough.

    Of course, if OBC continues that kind of brilliance in ideas, sooner will come sooner. Thanks for the effort. I know from personal experience, setting up a venue isn't easy stuff. The polish makes it, as does the community. You've some good folks starting out, that's usually a good thing.

    I would be posting there a bit more, but I've some work to do. Real work + Propeller video driver work. (watches OBC and Trodoss tap foot...) That will change. Always does.

    @Microcontrolled: Yours is pretty great. It's in that simple line art style, and that's always cool to me.

    Truth is, 8 bits is enough!! I just like 8 bit CPUs, because they are simple enough in scope that your average person can do stuff on them, and they are kind of the golden age of the personal computer. Lots of good stuff happened on Z80, 6502, 6809, etc... and then came Intel, proving that brute force can win the day. Don't worry about the finer elements of computing, just crank the clock, and let the fan sort the rest of the bits out :P

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    Post Edited (potatohead) : 4/7/2010 3:12:15 AM GMT
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