Arduino Fish Automatic Feeder

Hi Roee,

I also have my own website and fully understand your desire to have people visit there and see all the other cool stuff you've created. So I don't entirely agree with Neil and Enrico in the best approach. I'd suggest embedding your Youtube video here with some paragraphs of explanation as a teaser and then provide a lot more detail such as the code, circuit diagrams etc. on your own site. You have to give them a reason to visit and you can do that by showcasing your talents here.

I would agree in the others that just a link is insufficient. You need to find a balance between the locations. Adding value to the content here will indirectly add value to your site. You can provide useful content for the Element14 community without it being a blatant promotional piece. You can also utilise the fact that there's a big community here so you can ask questions and look for feedback which you might not get on your own site.

Cheers,

Andy

Hi Andy!

So I don't entirely agree with Neil and Enrico in the best approach. I'd suggest embedding your Youtube video here with some paragraphs of explanation as a teaser and then provide a lot more detail such as the code, circuit diagrams etc. on your own site. You have to give them a reason to visit and you can do that by showcasing your talents here.

I don't mean that Element14 should be the only place where post projects to involve the E14 community. As you know, I have already mentioned in several posts your blog, as I am doing. At the actual date, Balearic Dynamics has its own site (momentarily down for maintenance). And I cross-exchange posts here and there. I think that on Element14 it is the perfect, right place to put depth technical posts, sharing the projects and technical solutions, issues etc. with the community (with all the advantages included). Then I publish on the "official" Balearic Dynamics blog also the references to the E14 posts as a  more details to read ... or create the pdf from the post when there is a bunch of interesting comments and make a post on my blog. By the other side, when I promote a new project that is not probably (IMO) so interesting for the E14 community or it has a poor technical content but it is the worth I publish it before on my blog then I add a note on the Element14 community notes (i.e. in my balearic dynamcis Element14's blog). Then another good cross-information exchange is also integrating these publishings on Twitter and on the facebook page. In few words, I think that Element14 is a very good add-on to boost an Internet echo-system creating a good attention and visibility of our works.

Then I agree about the videos, these are a very good trait-d'union between different social network contexts, as well as good photography series of a project are always a good change to replicate the same concept with different few words in a multi-face environment as it can be a personal blog/site, Element14 specific areas, Twitter, Facebook technical page and so on.

I wrote for a certain periodo technical article focused on almost original Arduino project, then reblogged them on my personal blog and some of these I posted also in my Element14 blog, just to make and example. And I saw that this has created a good return in terms of visibility.

Last but not least, I take in account that the Element14 presence of a well described project, also with frequent links to outside sites (i.e. the personal blog, or site  if any) generate also - as it is obvious - a very good return in terms of trustability of what we are publishing.

To be honest what I really dislike, at least in the specific Element14 areas is a post of few lines with "look here, for my project". In this case, maybe that it is better - and give more readability - to publish this note in one of the news sections of the community.

Enrico

Hi Andy!

So I don't entirely agree with Neil and Enrico in the best approach. I'd suggest embedding your Youtube video here with some paragraphs of explanation as a teaser and then provide a lot more detail such as the code, circuit diagrams etc. on your own site. You have to give them a reason to visit and you can do that by showcasing your talents here.

I don't mean that Element14 should be the only place where post projects to involve the E14 community. As you know, I have already mentioned in several posts your blog, as I am doing. At the actual date, Balearic Dynamics has its own site (momentarily down for maintenance). And I cross-exchange posts here and there. I think that on Element14 it is the perfect, right place to put depth technical posts, sharing the projects and technical solutions, issues etc. with the community (with all the advantages included). Then I publish on the "official" Balearic Dynamics blog also the references to the E14 posts as a  more details to read ... or create the pdf from the post when there is a bunch of interesting comments and make a post on my blog. By the other side, when I promote a new project that is not probably (IMO) so interesting for the E14 community or it has a poor technical content but it is the worth I publish it before on my blog then I add a note on the Element14 community notes (i.e. in my balearic dynamcis Element14's blog). Then another good cross-information exchange is also integrating these publishings on Twitter and on the facebook page. In few words, I think that Element14 is a very good add-on to boost an Internet echo-system creating a good attention and visibility of our works.

Then I agree about the videos, these are a very good trait-d'union between different social network contexts, as well as good photography series of a project are always a good change to replicate the same concept with different few words in a multi-face environment as it can be a personal blog/site, Element14 specific areas, Twitter, Facebook technical page and so on.

I wrote for a certain periodo technical article focused on almost original Arduino project, then reblogged them on my personal blog and some of these I posted also in my Element14 blog, just to make and example. And I saw that this has created a good return in terms of visibility.

Last but not least, I take in account that the Element14 presence of a well described project, also with frequent links to outside sites (i.e. the personal blog, or site  if any) generate also - as it is obvious - a very good return in terms of trustability of what we are publishing.

To be honest what I really dislike, at least in the specific Element14 areas is a post of few lines with "look here, for my project". In this case, maybe that it is better - and give more readability - to publish this note in one of the news sections of the community.

Enrico