Developer

Hi ya'll,

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I just posted about this on the APM dev list, but it would be great to get some participation in a drones.stackexchange site.  For those not familar stackexchange/stackoverflow is a great web format for asking questions and getting answers.  The person who asks the question marks the best answer (karma?) and (hopefully) a whole ecosystem of drone users helping other drone users develops.  I think it has the potential to be possibly an even better way of doing many of the Q&A type posts here on diydrones.

I've just created a proposal to have a drones.stackexchange.com, and now is the point where stackexchange does an evaluation to see if there is enough interest to make the site.  Can you please help?

The steps are easy:

  1. Go here and choose to follow this proposed group.
  2. Post a sample question of the sort you'd think a drones Q&A site could answer.
  3. Upvote the questions that you think are the best examples of the sort of Q&A a site like this could provide.
  4. (optional) Please pass the word on various other drone sites.

After we pass the hurdle of 50 followers/upvoted questions then the site will go live and we'll see how useful it is (or is not).  I promise to promptly answer any andropilot questions ;-)

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  • Developer

    Andrew - I totally agree!  I didn't know about that stack exchange.  I'll support that instead and update this groups description as appropriate.

  • @Andrew Lynch,

    Maybe. Here, I added a question to the robotics stack exchange, let's see how that goes.

    http://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/1378/how-to-tell-when-a...

  • a robotics stack exchange is in beta now and its still trying to get up the proper numbers.  

    I think forming a drones stack exchange will see similar issues.  Why not just put all the effort into one robotics/drones/RC community on stack exchange 

  • This is an interesting idea, I'm following... But how does this compliment/work with the existing DIYDrones forum format? Is it splitting the community, in essence a fork? Stack exchange has some great features, if it works out it could be a more efficient way to share knowledge.
  • Moderator

    I added a couple of "generic RC" questions that seem to pop up a lot, such as a couple about propeller orientation and reversing.  I'm interested to see how those question get voted relative to "pure" drone questions.

  • Moderator

    @Kevin, I used to use stack overflow as my evening time-waster before I got hooked on drone flying!

  • @Jon: +1

  • @Jon, UAV and UAS kinda limits the questions to aerial robots. The word Drone/Drones covers the entire spectrum of autonomous vehicles.
    Just my 2 cents.

    Joshua Johnson

  • How about UAV or UAS instead of drone?

  • I was thinking just the other day why isn't there a drones QA at stackexchange :) Will support.

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