[sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman

[dan snazelle]

I think its great that Aaron and his class are posting these things.

not all people like youtube, but a lot of people do.

In the end if you dont like it, you dont have to watch it.

and the semester end writeups are always a good read, with schematics, so really, this semester, we are getting even more out of his students because we get to 
HEAR what they sound like.

thanks


On May 7, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Paul Cunningham wrote:

> OK, I'll definitely have to say I'm really turned off my all of the negative postings here. On this topic and others.
> 
> I'll agree that youtube is not the way to document projects, but as someone who is learning how to DIY, these amateur accounts are nothing but encouraging to me -- giving me reason to believe that I can actually Do It Myself and probably even do a better job at it.
> 
> Some of you are paid professionals and should really bite your tongue before putting down less educated attempts at electronics. Sure I could have accepted that MIT scholarship 25 years ago and learned how to do all this the right way, with all of the appropriate high-level math and documentation skills to back it up, but I didn't. Hasn't kept me from learning anyways, and I don't think it should discourage anyone else here from doing whatever they are able in order to advance their knowledge.
> 
> I joined this list looking for support and commonality, and some of what I read lately just puts others down because they didn't accomplish some lofty standard in their DIY attempt. This open letter to Aaron was done respectfully with good humor, and shouldn't be used as a vechicle to bash the poor quality of amateur video. Some of us don't have the nice gear it takes to make a great video, but we still would like to share our accomplishments with the rest of the world. Sharing them makes us feel good, and feel like doing more.
> 
> Here are my fuzzy/grainy/poor quality videos: http://www.youtube.com/ugufru
> 
> Please enjoy them if you can make out what's going on. I'm happy to answer any questions you have since I have not gotten around to documenting anything else about them yet.
> 
> Post whatever you want to youtube. Post the details here on on a separate web page. That's good enough for me. -pc
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