Hey Dave I have and Idea!?!?
Last night I watched the recording of your live show and started thinking of an idea after you said that in the future the blog might become your full time job. I was thinking about a couple of your previous video blogs about Open Source Hardware design, and the fact that you specialize in hardware design for your day job and as a hobby and that currently you have a conflict of interest with doing a video blog about circuit board design. If the future of the show becomes your full time job then your conflict of interest wouldn't be a problem anymore.
With these thoughts in mind, I think it would be cool if you came up with an Open Source Hardware design idea that would or wouldn't have EEVblog community input depending on the project and the way you wanted to handle the development. You could do a second show either weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly that specifically goes through the project in great detail from the original conceptual ideas that dictate the specific hardware you choose and the reasons they were chosen, all the way to a completed project that we can build ourselves or buy from you.
The individual shows could go into great detail about each aspect of the hardware development. With the gEDA suite in mind you could do a show for each component of the suite, especially schematic and circuit board design. It would be great to see the entire project done completely with open source software running on most likely a Linux machine. If the project included a microcontroller (which I hope it would) you could use the Eclipse IDE and if it were an Atmel AVR you could use the avr-gcc toolchain to make the whole project Open Source Hardware and Software designed.
What do you think of that idea Dave???
Thanks Dave keep up the great job, I been watching you since the first show.
p.s. I switched to Linux back in 2004 and have been using it ever since, I am an EE student and I always try redoing everything at home using (FREE) Open Source Software.
I think it is an awesom Idea
I think Dave should run a comp on project idea's for an EEV Blog Comuinity project
My Entry would be a Xmas Lightshow kit that had a main board and wireless nodes around the house. Features would include PWM's For rgb led strings maybe a Radio transmitter so passers buy can hear music that the lights flash too. Would allso need programing software for anyone to be able to program the system.
If the blog was my full time job then I would indeed do something like that.
I have a couple of open hardware projects coming up that I will go through in detail in due course.
I don't like community projects that much, I like doing things MY way! :-P
I don't do Linux, sorry.
Dave.