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*** New Facebook Group for Embedded Development, Robotics and Product Development ***

AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
edited 2015-01-31 01:00 in General Discussion
Hey everyone, been a while since I have been posting on here. Don't know if Parallax has run out of PropC3s yet (I did a manufacturing run for them a few months ago), but I have more plus I am going to bundle the PropC3 and C3Synapse for a low price very soon, just didn't want to run out over xmas. Just have to add the product page to www.iC0nstrux.com and decide on the price.

But, why I am posting is I started a new group on Facebook for people that are more interested in producing products and manufacturing them, rather than just hobby stuff. So, those of you that are into embedded, robotics, or EE that want to develop a product, manufacture it, sell it, fund it, run kickstarters, that's what I am trying to build over there on the group. I thought I would get some Propeller people on there :)

Anyway, check the group out at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/embedded.robotic.systems/

Other than that, I am working on a new credit card game console and a smart watch. The credit card game console is getting near completion, when done, I will have a few units for "demo coders" as usual, so I will post here to see if anyone is interested.

Andre'

Comments

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-29 02:23
    Interesting projects you have there. Look forward to hearing more.

    Sadly I can't see anything at that group page except a login dialog box.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2015-01-29 03:02
    Hm... same here. Only a login box. Is it a closed group? Not sure how FB works for this stuff.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-01-29 09:00
    Andre'

    Did you change the board design per this post?:

    http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/128699-C3-power-and-USB-usage


    Jim

    (Looks like Parallax is sitting on 18 units, on sale)
  • tomcrawfordtomcrawford Posts: 1,126
    edited 2015-01-29 09:06
    Tor wrote: »
    Hm... same here. Only a login box. Is it a closed group? Not sure how FB works for this stuff.
    Clicked on link in Post #1, got the page, clicked on JOIN, currently pending.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-29 11:37
    How did you do that?

    The word "join" does not appear on either page linked from post #1
  • tomcrawfordtomcrawford Posts: 1,126
    edited 2015-01-29 11:43
    Heater. wrote: »
    How did you do that?

    The word "join" does not appear on either page linked from post #1

    Bottom right corner of Cover Photo. There is a button; JOIN GROUP.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-29 12:12
    What cover photo?

    All I see is Facebook login page.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2015-01-29 12:40
    tomcrawford wrote: »
    Clicked on link in Post #1, got the page, clicked on JOIN, currently pending.

    +1
  • tomcrawfordtomcrawford Posts: 1,126
    edited 2015-01-29 14:46
    Heater. wrote: »
    What cover photo?

    All I see is Facebook login page.

    Have you a FB account?
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2015-01-29 17:11
    I can't answer for Heater, but I don't have an account and I only see a login page. Why is that necessary? I mean, I follow Alan Cox' FUSIX/6502 development on Google+, without being logged in to Google+ (I got rid of my G+ account long ago).

    -Tor
  • AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
    edited 2015-01-29 20:44
    No. I actually added the feature, but it never needed it, so the boards are still the 1st version without extra protection for the 1 in a million event. I tested it in 50-60 different USB systems including Xboxs, laptops, desktops, etc. and worked fine. Parallax at the time had some problems with another product shorting out a computer and were really worried about this being a potential issue. I told them it wasn't, tested it, and run mine like this all the time. But, to be safe and liability free they put that warning. But, since its such a tiny change, its not worth reving another board thru and verifying etc.

    Andre'
  • AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
    edited 2015-01-29 20:46
    To join groups of facebook you have to be a member of facebook, since 3,000,000,000 people are I assume most people have an account :) Anyway, simple login to your facebook account, then the link will work, or you can search for:

    Embedded and Robotic Systems for Developers, Entrepreneurs and Startups

    And then add yourself that way. And the group requires me to review each request, so we don't get bots, porn and people just wanting to advertise products that have nothing to do with embedded.

    Andre'
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2015-01-29 21:06
    Well, there's absolutely no way I would join Facebook just to get access to, or even just be able to read a group there. A very closed group, as it were. So be it.

    -Tor
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2015-01-29 22:12
    Tor:

    So you refuse to join Facebook and go along with the crowd? You and Gadgetman will just sit there in the fjord eating Swiss Army meatballs wondering what wonderful things this group is up to?

    IKEAn't believe it.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2015-01-29 22:28
    Well, no, I won't sit around and wonder.. what happens inside the closed walls of FB is of no interest to me. The world is full of wonders, I believe only a tiny percentage of interesting things are limited to being inside FB. So there is no need for me to be a product for FB's customers just to get access to it. Actually I strongly believe that if anything is limited to being inside FB only, then it must be worthless.
    Anyway, where I'm currently residing I'm more likely to eat sashimi than meatballs.. :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-30 04:21
    No Facebook for me thank you.

    I find it disturbing that such groups and other activities are becoming embedded in a single system, closed off from those outside.

    This is the antithesis of what "internet" is supposed to be about. The internet and the web are about distributed systems not centralized ones. Control and ownership of net resources should be with the users not with some corporation or other central authority.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2015-01-30 04:36
    No...

    Today I think I'll have potato dumplings, homemade with a piece of bacon in the middle, with fried bacon beside, sausages and potatoes. And melted butter on top...
    Not a single meatball.

    To quote Tor, "The world is full of wonders", I'd like to add that "and FaceBook isn't one of them!"

    As there's nearly 7.3Billion people in the world, I'm happy to be among the majority who are not FarceBookers...
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-30 05:30
    Despite my aversion to such things FaceBook is perhaps one of the wonders of the world. Connecting 3 billion people together does not sound trivial. Especially when you start out doing it with PHP :)

    Facebook has some neat open source projects, React.js, flint, libphenom, etc that I am happy to use. https://code.facebook.com/projects/
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2015-01-30 06:00
    Well, much as I disliked G++ (google+) when I had an account there (which I got rid of - you can do that, and still keep your gmail account), at least with G+ projects and groups are generally open to the non-member public. I occasionally update myself on Cox' work (as I mentioned before) and what a 6502 group is doing. I would have thought that this could be done on FB as well. Anyway, never mind me.

    -Tor
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2015-01-30 07:52
    I have to agree with Tor and Gadgetman on this one. I joined Facebook a few years back to keep in touch with family. After a few weeks my mailbox was filling up with scams, junk mail, and malware. Fortunately I had enough presence of mind when I joined to use one of my disposable mail addresses so I could quit facebook and close that email account. IMHO joining facebook is opening yourself up for the worlds scammers to get at your information.
  • MoskogMoskog Posts: 554
    edited 2015-01-30 10:23
    kwinn wrote: »
    ...I joined Facebook a few years back to keep in touch with family. After a few weeks my mailbox was filling up with scams, junk mail, and malware. Fortunately I had enough presence of mind when I joined to use one of my disposable mail addresses so I could quit facebook and close that email account. IMHO joining facebook is opening yourself up for the worlds scammers to get at your information.

    Been there, done that!
    My FB account ran full of friend-requests. I did't want to be friend of all those People I never used to talk to or not even knew about. So instead of have to filter people like another Mengele, I desided to close the whole account down. So now I don't know when people bakes that awesone cake no more, or have to leave for the small room. But it does not hurt at all.

    Another thing is that more and more of the society is based on that we all have an FB account. Like the Internet itself. Soon you cant read a paper-based newspaper no more, you can't pay a bill no more without being connected. If you want some further information you have to visit our Facebook page! If you want to continue being here on Earth you have to get yourself an FB account.

    No, don't want that. Want to be here, yes, but don't want to be accessible 24/7.
    Don't even have one of those modern flat big screen phones, my one is an old Nokia where I can make and receive old fasion Calls on, (and do some short messages on too).Remember those?

    Greetings from another non-FB viking!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2015-01-30 10:42
    With 3 smart & active Norwegian forumistas, Parallax must add a Scandinavian expo at some point, if & when Tor comes home to roost. :)
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2015-01-30 11:14
    On the topic of too much social media...

    C.W.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-01-30 11:28
    Awesome video CW!

    Kinda sums up the whole social media nowadays.

    I did the whole thing back in the day when it got started. I though it would be a great way to keep in touch with a small group of friend around the country.

    But they got friends, and their friends wanted to be friends we me, and their friends.. I don't even know these people.

    You could spend your whole day looking up your internet "friends".

    I'd rather spend the day with my soldering iron that never gives me negative feedback.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2015-01-30 12:09
    erco wrote: »
    With 3 smart & active Norwegian forumistas, Parallax must add a Scandinavian expo at some point, if & when Tor comes home to roost. :)

    Maybe...
    If Moskog can get to Trondheim for the next Makerfaire(28 - 29th August), I guess that I could load up the old Berlingo for a short trip (200Km and a ferry, one way)
    Not a clue as to where Tor is...
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-30 16:09
    Publison,
    I'd rather spend the day with my soldering iron...
    Yes!

    As you may have guessed I'm kind of addicted to the Parallax forum. And others.

    If I can, from time to time, help with someones software or hardware problem then that is a good day for me.

    If I can yak some not so useful stuff with like minded people then that is a bonus.

    It's good that we have the net to connect us together. In fact, quite amazing.

    I think I communicate quite well with the "real" people around me. But the reality is most of them are not interested in the things I am interested in.

    It has been so since decades before there was an internet.
  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2015-01-30 20:30
    C.W.

    thanks for the video. So there is life outside of computers. Never had a proof. My last wife was FB junkie. Maybe still is. I do not know. I lost a very good friend for over 2 years because he was playing Second Life. And was not able to talk about anything else but Second Life. Thankfully he recovered and is well again.

    I do also dislike FB and other social media because I am not social. I do just care about people around me. Real friends. two hand full at most.

    AndreL

    No producer by myself (except one failed try) I may not fit in your target group. And I guess if you want to sell stuff you will need to use them channels like FB, Xing, whoever. So have to have accounts everywhere. Good luck with your group. Is there maybe a way to set discussions in the group visible for public? I'd like to peek in once in a while...

    Enjoy!

    Mike
  • MoskogMoskog Posts: 554
    edited 2015-01-31 00:29
    Gadgetman wrote: »
    Maybe...
    If Moskog can get to Trondheim for the next Makerfaire(28 - 29th August), I guess that I could load up the old Berlingo for a short trip (200Km and a ferry, one way)
    Not a clue as to where Tor is...

    Sounds very interesting, Trondheim is just a couple of hours away ( maybe some 80 kms and ferry). Guess LA6WNA also would like to join!
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2015-01-31 01:00
    Right now I don't know where in the world I will be at the end of August - but there's a possibility I could be there of course. BTW I'm another LA ham, although a passive one at the moment.

    -Tor
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