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- From: connolly@piglet.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Is a new newsgroup appropriate?
- Message-ID: <59277@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 22:34:50 GMT
- References: <728209722.F00001@ocitor.fidonet> <C1Kns1.5C7@world.std.com> <1993Jan28.201716.8503@adobe.com>
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- Someone writes:
- >Ok, this has been going on for far too long already. Personally, I think
- >that it is great that you have put together a board that works, and
- >that you want to sell it to people. However, I would not buy your
- >board simply because of the tactics that you are using to try and sell
- ...
-
- and in article <1993Jan28.201716.8503@adobe.com> epperson@adobe.com
- (Mark Epperson) replies:
- >I am sorry, I do not concur. Some of us, with two left soldering irons,
- >are just looking for the best solution to our problems. I am not interested
- >in "learning" how to debug a microcontroller, I am interested in building
- >a robot. That said, I appreciated the info on the other (less expensive)
- >controller.
-
- There does seem to be a persistent tension associated with this topic.
- Maybe the solution here is to create a "comp.robotics.hardware"
- newsgroup. There appears to be enough interest, and I have to admit
- that I, for one, try to skip over the hardware-related articles and
- concentrate on the "softer" stuff, or more general issues pertinent to
- robotics.
- -CC
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- Christopher Ian Connolly connolly@cs.umass.edu
- Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics wa2ifi
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA 01003
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