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Bus Pirate Support / BP and OLS to EEV Blog
The EEV blog is a series of video blogs on electronics. I am sure many of you are aware of its existence. For the rest of you:
Dave Jones, the engineer making the series has much focus on stuff for the hobbyists, but talks about all sorts of electronics topics. Many tens of thousands watch his blogs. He is very passionate, which annoys some viewers whilst captivate others (like myself).
A sample? Here is a good one about the pickit3. Dave reckon it was pointless because the pickit2 was so good. It is funny: http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/21/eevbl ... er-review/
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Anyway, what I wanted to suggest was send a sample of the Bus Pirate and Open Bench Logic Analyser to him. He loves open hardware projects, and I will explain why he will like these two in the next paragraph. Personally I would feel proud seeing them in the blog. But more importantly, and the reason I really made this thread is because I think it will scale the number of users of our projects. This is mostly because the vast number of users of EEV Blog resonate with the target audience of DangerousPrototypes. And I must admit I like this community a lot, so this would induce great pleasure. Furthermore, Dave writes on his website that he accept these things for review, as he has done many times in the past.
The Bus Pirate is an obvious candidate because of its low cost/open/great capabilities. Why did I suggest the logic analyser? He did a 2 part series on logic analysers, and I reckon, based on the criteria in his rant, he will like ours.
I hope I don't annoy anyone with this thread. I am pretty new to the community, and perhaps I am commenting on something which is not my responsibility. However I do a lot of marketing as part of my real job; and this is great for us for at least three reasons: Because the users of EEV Blog resonate with out target audience, because the number of users of EEV blog is so big, and because it would cost us next to nil to execute, relative to what I predict it will pay off.
I have corresponded with Jones via email twice, and I think many of our values will resonate positively with his. (Please don't tell him I said that, we are not friends at all! But you get to know some sides of people after watching them for hundreds of hours on YouTube :D And he is a down to earth, realistic guy. I think. )
Please share with me your views. Thank you.
Kind regards.M