Yes i see many many on this site with mostly bad spelling,some caps is push a main word up like JOSH or EZB
On mine i make mistakes too,mostly i write fast and dont recheck it,but sometimes i do .
ON caps my new DELL laptop has no cap light (witch is stupid idea) so i dont know if on or off and dont double check,also i didnt think its a big deal.
If i do it from one of my main computers i dont have that problem.
Main reason i use my laptop alot,i am outside working or in bedroom and dont wont to use my large screen tv with computer hook up to it for writing ,its mostly game or media center.
On the wiki idea ,i think is better to have a seperate wiki on the internet
that way more sales for EZB,i would think DJ would be happy with more sales.
That is the good thing about WiKi's, is we can edit each others work. So if someone has a good idea, but bad grammar, someone well with no ideas of their own can contribute by cleaning up others work. (extreme ends of the spectrum for demonstration purposes only. Other use is correcting mistakes or adding better clarification).
But then there is the fact that a lot of the posts on here which have bad grammar or bad spelling often make very little sense... There are a lot that I've read and after thought "What in the blue hell is that about?"
99% of what we need to know is already on the tutorials pages or videos. A "suggest and edit" link on pages may be the better idea to save anyone coming along and changing things, potentially damaging your EZB or yourself. If something isn't in the tutorials, suggest it or even write it and send it in to DJ for him to check and publish if necessary... that makes more sense to me.
Flagging words with CAPS is not ideal and also shows you have clearly ignored the UBB Code Support to the right of the post box.
Bold works better.
Underline would workor even both!
Lol... I know exactly the posts you are talking about.
Yeah. Wiki may still be an option, they can be set to have changes approved by an editor. We may be making more of this than required. The tutorials are great, I just personally prefer to have written documentation to refer to, and really like it as the first choice since I can read faster than anyone can speak, but I know it is a lot easier for DJ to document stuff by recording a video and narrating than trying to write quality tech documents, and it works for most people.
Again, if I had more free time, I would be happy to volunteer my time for minimal compensation. I have done a lot of technical writing in my career, but I would rather spend my limited free time building my robot. Maybe when it is done.
I agree, you can't beat written documentation. You also can't beat a well drawn schematic and wiring diagram. I know the rewiring of the camera from the EZ Kit was difficult to see exactly where to solder the signal wire or turning it on (even if mine turns itself on regardless of the signal now...). The HBridge was a little difficult to follow where everything went too, but it's there and works.
Lucky for me I have had the time to look at the videos and photos and figure it all out, redraw it for when I get back to doing the soldering etc.
But at the end of the day, those things I have mentioned are not the ez-b, ARC or products of EZ-Robots and as this site and forum are for the ez-b and ARC I can understand why those things are not as clear... if DJ was to cover everything it would be a mammoth task!..
I'm documenting my entire build and have all schematics etc. so once I have the time to post it all there will be clear diagrams for the camera, the hbridge I used, even things such as the battery monitor, blown fuse alarm, larson scanner etc. etc. (i.e. things that can work with the EZB but aren't directly supported)... But I guess that's why there is the project showcase section of the forum.
P.S. I apologise, but bad "netiquette" is one of my biggest bugbears.
Hopefully everyone will remember to use spell check and turn the caps lock off for this wiki
Yes i see many many on this site with mostly bad spelling,some caps is push a main word up like JOSH or EZB
On mine i make mistakes too,mostly i write fast and dont recheck it,but sometimes i do .
ON caps my new DELL laptop has no cap light (witch is stupid idea) so i dont know if on or off and dont double check,also i didnt think its a big deal.
If i do it from one of my main computers i dont have that problem.
Main reason i use my laptop alot,i am outside working or in bedroom and dont wont to use my large screen tv with computer hook up to it for writing ,its mostly game or media center.
On the wiki idea ,i think is better to have a seperate wiki on the internet that way more sales for EZB,i would think DJ would be happy with more sales.
Josh,
That is the good thing about WiKi's, is we can edit each others work. So if someone has a good idea, but bad grammar, someone well with no ideas of their own can contribute by cleaning up others work. (extreme ends of the spectrum for demonstration purposes only. Other use is correcting mistakes or adding better clarification).
Alan
But then there is the fact that a lot of the posts on here which have bad grammar or bad spelling often make very little sense... There are a lot that I've read and after thought "What in the blue hell is that about?"
99% of what we need to know is already on the tutorials pages or videos. A "suggest and edit" link on pages may be the better idea to save anyone coming along and changing things, potentially damaging your EZB or yourself. If something isn't in the tutorials, suggest it or even write it and send it in to DJ for him to check and publish if necessary... that makes more sense to me.
Flagging words with CAPS is not ideal and also shows you have clearly ignored the UBB Code Support to the right of the post box.
Bold works better. Underline would work or even both!
It takes more time to use underline or bold i see DJ posts hav capitals letters some times
@RichMR2
Lol... I know exactly the posts you are talking about.
Yeah. Wiki may still be an option, they can be set to have changes approved by an editor. We may be making more of this than required. The tutorials are great, I just personally prefer to have written documentation to refer to, and really like it as the first choice since I can read faster than anyone can speak, but I know it is a lot easier for DJ to document stuff by recording a video and narrating than trying to write quality tech documents, and it works for most people.
Again, if I had more free time, I would be happy to volunteer my time for minimal compensation. I have done a lot of technical writing in my career, but I would rather spend my limited free time building my robot. Maybe when it is done.
Alan
I agree, you can't beat written documentation. You also can't beat a well drawn schematic and wiring diagram. I know the rewiring of the camera from the EZ Kit was difficult to see exactly where to solder the signal wire or turning it on (even if mine turns itself on regardless of the signal now...). The HBridge was a little difficult to follow where everything went too, but it's there and works.
Lucky for me I have had the time to look at the videos and photos and figure it all out, redraw it for when I get back to doing the soldering etc.
But at the end of the day, those things I have mentioned are not the ez-b, ARC or products of EZ-Robots and as this site and forum are for the ez-b and ARC I can understand why those things are not as clear... if DJ was to cover everything it would be a mammoth task!..
I'm documenting my entire build and have all schematics etc. so once I have the time to post it all there will be clear diagrams for the camera, the hbridge I used, even things such as the battery monitor, blown fuse alarm, larson scanner etc. etc. (i.e. things that can work with the EZB but aren't directly supported)... But I guess that's why there is the project showcase section of the forum.
P.S. I apologise, but bad "netiquette" is one of my biggest bugbears.
Hopes everyone has blessed merry christmas and a new year