Admins don't always have time to read all posts on all threads!

Let's be nice people - or let me rephrase that - Let's be nice on this forum....

I know it's tempting to reply to almost every newbie "Read the Manual or Read the Datasheet", I've done it myself to folks - and not just once or twice. It's frustraiting to read some of the posts, especially when there's a 14-page list of what they have to do/achieve and it's coupled with a request for schematics/code/help/complete ready-canned solution for free and the deadline is today lunchtime and they've still got to play a soccer match in the interim - oh, and by the way they haven't got a clue about electronics/programming, they're really a philosophy student that's been landed with the task.

OK, we've heard it all before! Sometimes it's better not to answer, and people might get the message that they are expected to make some effort themselves too. And if they're really that clueless then a Landscape Gardening project (growing a dwarf Marijuana or similar) is probably a better student option.