Whatever Happened to the Old Chief Delphi?

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I hope I'm not going too far in saying this: a lot of students are afraid to post designs here on CD (and even some adults) because of the lack of discretion others give while posting comments/suggestions/feedback about a design. I know I personally would rather only hear comments from people like JVN, Adam Heard, etc. than from other students but that's just me.

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I love being able to get feedback from engineers and experienced students, but not on a public forum where sometimes I'd rather not have another inexperienced student post about a design. There's a bunch of design sharing that goes on outside of CD and I really love the people who've help me learn about the stupidity of my designs and how to start making practical things: Adam Heard, Sean Cantrell, Andrew Schreiber, Brandon Holley, JVN, Ed Venator, etc..

I've been reading this thread with not much to add, but I can't echo Akash enough. I posted one "design" which was really just a paper napkin drawing at the beginning of the summer about an undetailed crab drive concept I was interested in pursuing (resources have made that rather hard, so I'm post-phoning for now). I got about two pages of responses, and the first few responses were students telling me that my boxes (representative of components) would not work, and then telling me I labeled components incorrectly. It was easily my most frustrating week on CD.