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=Links=
You're probably looking for [http://sl/wiki/index.php/User:Cora the old wiki]
 
'''[[Cora's Notes|My Sandbox and Notes]]'''
 
[[Documentation Log]] - [[Language Pages Casting Roles]] - [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|All Templates]] - [[Special:ListFiles|All Files (Uploads)]]
 
[[Support Hall of Shame]]
 
To be rolled into Application Guides and Primers (i.e. content extracted and then pages deleted):
* [[Content Engine]]
 
=To Be Done=
 
App Guides
# [[Web Server on the SBC]]
# [[GoTo Mount for Camera or Telescope]]
# [[Portable Sensor Kit]]
# [[Controlling a DC Motor]]
# C# code in mono for [[Data Logging with a Temperature Sensor]]
 
Background Priorities:
# Clean up sentence above uses of [http://sl/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:UsingAPhidgetInCodeGeneral Using a Phidget in Code General]
# [[Language - Python]] - Mac OS
#* And other Mac OS sections on language pages
# [[Language - C/C++]]
# Clean up [http://sl/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/General_API&limit=100 Links to General API]
# Code Snippets for:
#*[[Language - C Sharp]] - Phi?
#*....?
# Check device API pages - no pseudo code
# Commit
#*Android HelloWorld x 2
#*C HelloWorld
#*Java HelloWorld
#*Python HelloWorld
# Figure out licenses
 
And, ongoing:
* Tech support additions
* [[Phidget Manager]], and dictionary?
 
=Completed=
 
Newly Done:
 
# Cleaned wiki of link references to [[Phidget Webservice]], replaced by [[Phidget WebService]]
# [[Data Logging With a Thermocouple]]
# [[Temperature Sensor Primer#Emissivity]] (And associated Trac bug report)
 
Last Week:
 
# [[Language - Python]] - Code Snippets
# [[Language - Python]] - Linux section
# [[OS - Android]]
# [[Language - Android Java]]
# All old (red) Manual Installation links redirected to [[OS_-_Windows#Manual_File_Installation|Windows Page]]
# [[OS - OS X]] - Structure, with content suggestions
 
Older:
 
# [[Phidget WebService]]
# [[OS - Windows]] - Structure and content suggestions
# [[Language - Java]] - Linux section
# [[Template:ExamplePseudocode]] Change to Hello World - Java Page
 
<hr width="50px" align="left">
 
# [[Language - MATLAB]]
# [[OS - Phidget SBC]]
# [[1072 0 - Getting Started]]
 
<hr width="50px" align="left">
 
# [[Weather Station]]
# [[Simple Spatial Experiments]]
# [[Web Page on the SBC]]
# [[Use Phidgets Wirelessly with the SBC]]
 
=Software Flow=
 
Don't get lost!
 
# [[Device List|Getting Started for Device]]
# [[Software Overview#Operating System Support | Pick Your Operating System]]
# [[Software Overview#Language Support | Pick Your Language]]
# Examples, run and build
# Learn about [[General Phidget Programming]]
# [[Device List | Device Specific Pseudocode in API]]
# [[Software Overview#Language Support| Code Snippets / Hello World pseudocode on Language Pages]]
# [[Software Overview#Language Support| Write Your Own Code]]
#* Language-specific API
#* [[General API]] - <span style="color:red;">TO BE DELETED</span>
#* [[Device List | Device Specific API]]
 
=Outreach=
 
Edgy - Dependable - Accessible
 
"It's normal and cool to want to play, or build seriously"
 
- Mini robots driven by phone
- Save money automating energy
- Explore science with your kids or class
- Do it exactly the way you want, customizing
 
Currently, how are gyros, accelerometers, GPS, etc used on phones for cool things?
Maybe spy via Arduino + Android books?  (These seem like hobby projects - we are more serious)
 
 
* Tech Journalists
* Make Magazine and Wired / Gizmodo
* FB / Twitter prototypes (i.e. the funnel)
* Improve Wiki Pages (wikipedia, etc)
* Selling through Amazon (kits only?  Cornerstones?) - How to manage reviews
* Google placement (links) - Meta info and content on category pages
* Google adwords - To Primers and App guides
* Stickers and better board/product/accessory labelling
* Co-marketing with Giants (Microsoft, Samsung)
* Sending robots to tradeshows
* Roaming classroom hardware
* Photos in action on webpage, project writeups
* Better forum moderating (make sure users don't lead each other astray)
* Stay general, but add specific visualizations of projects (e.g. Trossen / RobotShop)
* Add project concepts (very general) to the What Is A Phidget page
 
===Facebook===
 
* CAC - weekly (or biweekly) ask what people are working on
** Encourage discussion
** Not forums, but excitement builders
* Photos, photos, photos!  (And videos)
*
 
 
===Strengths of Arduino:===
* They have Shields
** Solution: VINT can probably improve our third-party interest if we expose the HW comm API?
* They appear as not-for-profit
** Solution: Whatever.  They're in it for the money.  Make it clear we're in it for the customer!  And, for the coolness and fun factor.
* Strong Community, which comes from open source, and being hard to use so people feel like they're learning
** Solution: This will probably be helped by exposing the HW API comm in VINT, in which case we are open enough for third-party add ons
** Solution: Primers!  People will learn that way.  Maybe mesh primers with app guides so that people can learn hands-on.
* They have multiple O'Rielly books, magazines, Evil Genius books
** Solution: Man oh man do we need some rad app guides. 
** Solution: More beginner stuff (physics classes, physical computing, experiments)
** Solution: Phidgets are not just about learning, they are about building real, useable, durable systems (a photo book?  a video tour?)
 
===Strengths of Sparkfun:===
* Custom - Almost Digikey-level modularity
** Solution: Basic hardware with lots of different versions for different needs
* Scrappy and edgy
** Solution: Hipsters can't ride long distances in tight blue jeans.  We have endurance.
** Solution: More creative, scrappy kits ('robot in a can')?  Or maybe not.
** Solution: More humour and wit in our writing for application guides
** Solution: We can be more in touch with colleges and communities
** Solution: Expose good relationships with our mfg community, help relationships to be built with others there
* Strong Community, which comes from their staff diversity and connections to colleges
** Solution: Maybe set up mentoring or at least community discussion resources
 
===Strengths of National Instruments:===
* Dependability
** Solution: Advertise our calibration and spec confirmation methods
** Solution: Show many real-world uses
** Solution: VINT can maybe interface with third-party sensors?
* Market themselves as 'industry solution leaders' (white papers, trend predictions)
** Solution: Don't do this.  You're not the expert unless you're -really- the expert, and NI is not the expert, they're just another company.
** Solution: Make it clear that we think the customer knows best.  They know their systems the best, their requirements the best.  We just help them.
 
===Our possible additional strengths:===
* Expose our entire product development and mfg process
** Allow and help our partners (i.e. China) to make new relationships directly with our customers
** Share ideas and manufacturing/design experience with China to make new products and add some Sparkfun-like agility to customer needs
*** Make this an iterative process so we have some control and they have some learning and we don't suffer the three-hour-woodchipper effect
 
=Random Software Mess=
 
* [[Language - C/C++]]
* [[Language - C Sharp]]
* [[Language - MATLAB]]
* [[Language - Python]]
* [[Language - Java]]
* [[Language - Android Java]]
 
* [[OS - Linux]]
* [[OS - Android]]
 
* [[Phidget WebService]]
* [[Phidget Manager]]
 
===High-Level Pages===
 
* [[Software Overview]]
* [[Getting Started with Phidgets]]
* [[General Phidget Programming]] NOT the API (Guts) page
* [[General API]] The Guts page.  No device-specific APIs. - <span style="color:red;">TO BE DELETED</span>
 
=Guidelines and Goals=
 
{| style="border:1px solid darkgray;" cellpadding="5px;"
|-
| [[Primer Primer]]
| High-level philosophy for primer construction
|-
| [[Software Example Design]]
| What examples should contain, exceptions for different languages
|-
| [[Internal - Code Example Guidelines]]
| Formatting, style, variable naming conventions, interaction philosophy
|-
| [[Internal - Software Wiki Structure Guidelines]]
| A more formal layout of the structure and flow between Software pages
|-
| [[Application Guide²]]
| Guide to the Application Guides
|-
| [[Application Guides]]
| Internal list of most guides and some structure
|}
 
=Strawmen and Templates=
 
===Product Related Pages===
 
[[Device List]]
 
* [[Getting Started - 1018 Interface Kit 8/8/8]]
* [[Getting Started - 1120 Flexi Force Adapter]]
 
{| style="border:1px solid darkgray;" cellpadding="5px;"
|-
| [[Product Page - Template]]
| Base for Product stubs
|}
 
* [[Product - 1018 - PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8]]
* [[Product - 1023 - PhidgetRFID]]
* [[Product - 1045 - PhidgetTemperatureSensor IR]]
* [[Product - 1061 - PhidgetAdvancedServo 8-Motor]]
* [[Product - 1066 - PhidgetAdvancedServo 1-Motor]]
 
===Them Templates===
 
====General====
 
{| style="border:1px solid darkgray;" cellpadding="5px;"
|-
| [[Template:ContentNeeded]]
| Red box and bold
|-
| [[Template:ProblemSolution]] 
| Red and bold text
|-
| [[Template:KnownIssues]] 
| The tech support catch-all at the bottom of stubs
|}
 
====For Language Specific Pages====
 
[[Software Overview#Language Support|Language List]]
 
{| style="border:1px solid darkgray;" cellpadding="5px;"
|-
| [[Template:LanguageSupport]]
| Full API, etc notes, support section at top
|-
| [[Template:UsingAPhidgetInCodeGeneral]] 
| Introduction to how to write code (open, etc)
|-
| [[Template:ExampleCodeReasons]]
| Why you want to start with example code
|-
| [[Template:ExamplePseudocodeLogic]]
| For logic-only languages
|-
| [[Template:ExamplePseudocode]]
| For event and logic based languages
|}
 
====For Specific Device Pages====
 
[[Device List]]
 
{| style="border:1px solid darkgray;" cellpadding="5px;"
|-
| [[Template:RFIDPseudocode]]
| RFID pseudocode for API
|-
| [[Template:InterfaceKitPseudocode]]
| Interface Kit pseudocode for API
|- bgcolor="#ccc"
| [[Template:UsingAPhidgetInCodeSpecific]]
| Sections before device specific API on product page
|}
 
=To Be Deleted=
 
Nothing right now

Latest revision as of 20:07, 29 June 2012

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