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Chris Cristini

Mon Oct 06 2014, 09:39PM

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Since I have been apart of this forum I was able to do some pretty cool things and learn more than ever this is by far one of my greatest resources to date as we know knowledge is power.
Sadly I have failed so many wonderfull projects and may have let some of you down. Here is a list of my failures.

old dusty wooden computer.

Useless supercharger

My large quadcopter

And trying to make my own ferrites
However I have had a few that where worth my time. There are 100s more not even on the forum there is not a week that goes by where I am not working on something.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

(Winston Churchill)

Sulaiman

Tue Oct 07 2014, 12:50AM

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Ha ! .... newb !

I have dozens of partial and failed projects.

It seems to be true for me .... you learn more from failures
(it would be nice if there weren't so many though!)

dexter

Tue Oct 07 2014, 05:49AM

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you are not the only one with failed/incomplete projects...

as for learning from mistakes... each piece of dead silicon was a lesson learned

Artlav

Tue Oct 07 2014, 05:22PM

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Hm.
I found i normally hop between projects - the motivation to do one thing or another rarely lasts for too long.
However, i usually get back to them after some time, with renewed enthusiasm.
So, i tend to keep things in a neat, boxed form, so i can easily put them away, or take them back out.

But of course, there is also a "failed projects" box and a "stuff that is unlikely to be needed again" box.

And a "cool stuff i got on a bargain that i have no idea what to do with" box...

Conundrum

Tue Oct 07 2014, 06:21PM

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Still tinkering with my laser etcher, had some success a year ago but it still won't work right.
The problem now is that with the imminent demise of Bluray the needed diodes simply aren't available for under Â£120 and 600mW of UV light is far too dangerous to be tinkering with at home.

Dr. Slack

Tue Oct 07 2014, 07:50PM

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If you haven't got a box of stalled, back-burnered, exploded or otherwise not fully working projects, then you haven't started enough of them!

2Spoons

Tue Oct 07 2014, 09:18PM

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I'm constantly fighting the urge to start a new project when i have half a dozen unfinished ones sitting in the garage. And that's not including house / garden projects.

Weekends just aren't long enough.

Chris Cristini

Tue Oct 07 2014, 11:07PM

Registered Member #1749 Joined: Fri Oct 10 2008, 02:04AM
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That all makes me feel better thanks guys I wish my hdd`s and other things did not fail and of course more funds human nature learning from pain Is a little cruel Haha.

Alex M

Wed Oct 08 2014, 04:38AM

Registered Member #3943 Joined: Sun Jun 12 2011, 05:24PM
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Artlav wrote ...

I found i normally hop between projects - the motivation to do one thing or another rarely lasts for too long.
However, i usually get back to them after some time, with renewed enthusiasm.

+1 to that Artlav

If something is not going as planned and I have spent more than a week on it the project gets temporarily shelved. That way I can come back to it with a clean mind and more rational thinking.

You can usually tell when a project is becoming too consuming when you start to think about it at inopportune moments. For example a nightclub at 3am was one of the weirdest for me.

Dago

Wed Oct 08 2014, 06:17AM

Registered Member #538 Joined: Sun Feb 18 2007, 08:33PM
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I have noticed that the so called "polyprojectitis" gets slightly better with age :) More patience to finish stuff.

My mode of operation seems to design a project to be ready to build and then not build it. All the fun is in the design part I guess...

But like I said it seems to get better with age. I've been mainly working on my induction heater now for months and have not lost interest which is a bizarrely long time for me. Though due to work I don't have tons of time to work on it but still.

Edit: I have to add that I cannot remember too many "failed" projects. I'm usually stubborn enough to learn the stuff required so I can do the project. Sometimes the design just doesn't come out "right" and then I might lose interest.

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