[sdiy] Advice to students on their projects encouraged

[Nicholas Gregorich]

To search the SDIY archives at http://elists.resynthesize.com/synth-diy/ for short words:

Go to Google -> Advanced Search and paste the above URL into the domain box.  Then you can search for even a single letter in the archives.

Hope that helps.

Nick.

On Monday, April 17, 2006, at 10:17PM, Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:

>
>I told my students that they should feel free to ask on this list for 
>advice on their final projects, as long as they properly thank their 
>sources in their writeup. I also told them, though, that they should FIRST 
>search the archives before asking their questions. (I wish the archive 
>would archive 3 letter words - can't search on VCF, VCO, OTA, and for 
>Harry, BBD...) I also told them not to be dweebs, i.e., don't say "would 
>anyone design this circuit for me?" and to remember that I read the list 
>religiously. ;)
>
>There is an amazing assembled mass of knowledge on this that I'd love for 
>my students to benefit from.
>
>Please be constructive and gentle - i.e. nothing along the lines of "you 
>idiot! why did you use a 1 muF bypass capacitor when everyone knows you 
>need a 10 muF capacitor! you clearly don't know anything!" Not that people 
>would write such things, of course... remember you have a whole generation 
>of around _30_ new potential SDIYers whose minds you can help shape.
>
>I'm going to put together a webpage with student project info as it comes 
>together, so people can comment on the designs if they want, and even 
>build them if the students come up with some cool things. I'm hoping one 
>or two teams might actually make a PCB. I'm not requiring they do so; 
>perfboard or verboard is fine for this project, since the PCB design 
>packages have such a steep learning curve.
>
>- Aaron
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