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Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#2time to make one
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#3Not exactly like HN, but http://hackaday.com focuses on small hardware projects and news.
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#4HN is not limited to software. Hardware news are posted here sometimes and no rules prohibit it.
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#5I've found that at the forums for Raspberry Pi and other hobbyist gadgets, folks will go off on a tangent about hardware news, often enough to make it interesting.
A strange difference is that for me, software news is much more actionable than hardware. Somebody has to turn a new hardware development into something like a breakout board, often with support software such as drivers, before I can really do anything with it. The stuff that I can support myself, such as peripheral IC's and analog components, doesn't evolve as quickly.
I suppose one could say that software also requires support software (such as Python wrappers) before I can use it, but that seems to happen more quickly.
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#6HN is not limited to software. Hardware news are posted here sometimes and no rules prohibit it.
Indeed, and it may just reflect the relative levels of interest in software and hardware. I think it was attributed to Bill Gates, the early realization that for every person interested in creating hardware, there are 100 people interested in creating software.
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#7This reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/Ram/ and the idea of a DRAM subreddit that deals with DRAM like DDR3 and DDR4, hopefully with DRAM experts.
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#8Not exactly like HN, but http://hackaday.com focuses on small hardware projects and news.
...and the 1st post on their homepage is about Python :)
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#9Not exactly like HN, but http://hackaday.com focuses on small hardware projects and news.
...and the 1st post on their homepage is about Python :)
Just looked, and this is not true. The Python article is the second link in the horizontal news scroll at the top. Nearly everything else on the page is hardware.
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#10Im curious to know what you find out on that. One resource you might enjoy is Jack Ganssle's Embedded Muse. Go through back issues. He and his readers have all kinds of neat tips from tools to firmware tricks. I remember one there and today on Schneier blog was talking about noticing specific analog problems through sound from the waves they leaked. They didnt have equipment onhand so tuned an AM radio or something to it. Most isnt that exciting but those gems slip in there.