Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05071
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:31:40 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Something funny with the 1382 voltage triggers?
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
> Well, I prefer freeforming, which is a little easier to do when
> you have a chip layout.
And you do very artistic things with it. But freeforming is limited
to very low component counts - I hope. Note that a PCB layout also
provides a chip layout.
> > BEAM to some extend glorifies knowing bugger-all about what you're
> > doing. Ratther silly, methinks.
> Blasphemy! Sacrilege! I wave a dead chicken in your direction :).
Good answer :)
---8<---
> I feel this is one of the major strengths of BEAM. It affords an
> opportunity for ANYONE, no matter background or experience level to
> participate. Once you hook them, I'm sure they will advance past
> the tutorial stage.
Yet that's where BEAM fails. It's all-tinkering, all trial & error,
glorifying the `use' of components outside their specifications,
put it together, pray to the lords of BEAM and hope it does
something. There is very little to help a newbie to progress
towards proper design. One might get the impression that anything
*but* trail & error is actively discouraged, if you look at the
range of circuits which are supposed to be BEAM.
Best,
Steve
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