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I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of newsgroups dedicated to microcontrollers. Specifically the more popular ones such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Propeller, Basic Stamp, etc. The existing groups (alt.microcontrollers and alt.microcontrollers.8bit) have shown little to no activity in recent years. With the increased popularity of these amazing devices it would seem wise to start a new group specific to our interests. Creating a new group seems a little daunting to me. Is there anyone out there with usenet experience that would take on the project of starting a new group? Everyone, please let me know your thoughts.

-slackmeister

Reply to
Kevin Glover
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What is lacking in any newsgroup other than participants? Certainly there is nothing wrong with the names you list above. If there is little activity in alt.microcontrollers, why would you expect a new group to have more activity?

The bottom line is any new group would need to be promoted. You can do the same promotion for an existing group without the hassle of forming a new group.

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Rick
Reply to
rickman

I have a long list of "favorite" groups that nobody posts in. I keep them just in case.

I did not look for groups for the others, but the Raspberry Pi group (comp.sys.raspberry-pi) seems to have some activity.

Fred

Reply to
Fred McKenzie

Totally rPi oriented of course. How about comp.arch.embedded?

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Rick
Reply to
rickman

+9001

comp.arch.embedded both has enough activity *and* people who know what the hell they are talking about.

Also, Kevin gets +some for posting in sci.electronics.equipment that has almost zero activity.

Reply to
Aleksandar Kuktin

Just covering all sci.electronics bases.

Reply to
doh

Can you really call Rasberry Pi a microcontroller? more like microcomputer, right?

i'm interested in PICs. those are microcontrollers for sure. Arduino is based off a PIC.

They are programmed in C.

Arduino has some kinda interface, crust, which makes it possible to program without directly using C.

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lili.gopala

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