Computer Build Project

Not a bad idea many make a steady penny from Guiding or using their hobby/skills in a proffitable fashion.

Sounds like he's unlikely to make his money but maybe get something more useful if he wants to take it up!

As said previously 2K$ is rather a lot, you say you want to learn about computing and electronic engineering. I woudl suggest that unless you are doing something special you are not learning anything from assembling your PC from bits afterall many are just one integrated motherboard anyway. Honestly you would get more "skills" from assembling a Lego kit!!

If you are serious about learning electronics or using a computer to get there then you would get more from an old PC on which you can put devlopment tools for what ever controllers you may be interested in or USB test gear or some such .. Merely assembling the PC you will learn very little.

JA

According to gofundme:

While it's free to create and share your online fundraising campaign, GoFundMe will deduct a 5% fee from each donation that you receive. Since our fee is deducted automatically, you'll never need to worry about being billed or owing us any money.

Edit:

Actually the figures look far worse... https://www.gofundme.com/pricing/

I built my first computer while at high school. It was the first PC I had.

The build was most definitely done on a budget and only cost me a couple of hundred pounds, and consisted of parts that were recycled, donated, and gifted from friends/family.

$2000 would buy you a rather powerful gaming PC, so putting on the Oliver Twist act probably isn't doing you any favours.

mcb1 wrote:

 

I'm sorry but I have lots of projects that I'd like funding for.

 

Why should we not consider this as SPAM as it's not even related to element14 or the products they sell.

True, and if this was the members first-post then the report button would've been clicked quicker than a "Buy Now" button on a black friday sale.

As of today, a search of "computer" on their site returns 11,848 results.

Thats a staggering amount of begging!

Yes I understand that GoFundMe is definitely used for the less fortunate; however, they all have one goal, to raise money. Frankly I am raising money to aid in my personal education. Computer design and engineering is the field that I am interested in; unfortunately though, my high school does not offer any classes of this discipline.

I am currently enrolled in school and for the past 4 months I have spent all my time in the evening in a wrestling room. Consequently I have had no time to work. The guiding business is a great idea, and I did have one for sometime when I was younger. However, in order to guide people you are required by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to have a guiding licence. This is very hard to get and very expensive. It would not be worth it for me go through the troubles to get a license when I have a full time job in the summer and no real time to take people fishing.

I am therefore at the moment I am stuck trying to fund raise for myself.

Computers are not designed like this though : (

It is a system of 'standards' that means that (say) a motherboard and a hard drive can connect together, but that is more of an 'integration' exercise. By just integrating, knowledge is learnt this is true, but not knowledge in the area of how to design computers. By the time

you'll understand this from a high level (in a few years from now perhaps if you continue your studies in this field), your machine would

be outdated.

I know times change, but I got accepted to a university partly on the strength of being able to explain how a light-bulb works! i.e. super basic science at one level but the answer can be quite deep (ask your physics teacher). But also partly by being able to explain at a high level how an instruction is fetched by a CPU and executed, which can be explored with hardware like the 'Pi and Arduino.

There are reasons why physics, math and science/technology subjects are taught at schools instead of how to integrate a PC: the skills you'll learn will allow you to design the computers for the next generation. It might be interesting to work on the current generation PCs, but it is also exciting creating the machines of the future, so definitely worthwhile staying focussed on the core subjects too..

That is a great comment, shabaz

Mike

Thank you shabaz

     I work in the computer field since before the PC. Yes I know I am a dinosaur. But knowledge is the difference of sticking a few things together and do this on a Dell assembly line or designing the next generation of USB bus architecture. I choose the later and never looked back. A true advancement in this field is micro electronics and the people who understand the workings. Unless you happen to get lucky and find a Wozniak around you and you become the "vision guy". But even Jobs had a well rounded idea of electronics. Take this with a grain of salt. I would not want to be the person who follows a recipe, but a person who changes and rebuilds the recipe into a better cake.

Clem