#Circuit Design
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DIY line-out to Eurorack-in amp explainer now up on depthbuffer.uk!
always wanted to add an electronics hobby to your mid-life crisis, but never bothered to learn?
spent so much on eurorack gear that you now can't afford an audio input module for your line out jacks?
like reading long-winded explanations, written in overly flowery prose, by passionate nerds who don't actually know what they're talking about, but want to tell you all about it anyway?
then boy, do I have a poorly-illustrated, badly researched five-article series for you!
#memento potato#electronics#diy#synth#modular synth#modular synth diy#circuit design#tutorial#explained#magic#artisanal jank
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PCB Design: The Key to Engineering Innovation
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First Day of Spring - SVG.
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#svg#circut#svgfiles#springtime#spring#first day of spring#floral#Floral font#spring svg#circuit design#digital product#kofi#smallbusiness#support small#artists on tumblr#female artists#poc artist#vector#ai#dxffile#etsy#cricut svg
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Yeah yeah 3d printing is cool and whatever, you can make little plastic trinkets and a few utilities or whatever, but what we really need for at home making is ways to print circuit boards and fabricate components, and open source communities trading designs for them.
Like, I don't give a fuck about creating a fancy new phone holder or whatever if you are still dependent on (relatively) few companies and foundries for your phone's components and PCBs.
#diy#3d printing#tbh from everything I've seen 3d printing is still mostly a gimmick#you can make some cool toys but home printers just aren't making stuff strong enough and the material is shit plastic#laser cutting looks way better to me#circuit design#also can we make a better toolchain than we have#because fuck the existing vhdl/verilog tools#at least the ones I've used#we need people learning digital and analog logic design#glad we have a good open source thing going for software now let's hit hardware
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Circuit design war stories from the 20th century? Awesome :D
Bare CPU Printed Circuit Board for the Alpha NT XL366 workstation I designed back in 1995 or so. This was an obscure model of an obscure product line, made by a company (Digital Equipment Corp.) that is now itself obscure. To be honest I don't even remember much about this machine now.
What I do remember is the HUUUUGE fight I got into with our Signal Integrity team while I was designing this, over decoupling capacitors.
Decoupling caps are small components that hold a charge to help even out power when a circuit is active. This board featured hundreds of them, smaller than a grain of rice (see photo comparison of mounting pads vs rice grain below).
Our Signal Integrity team was tasked with making sure everything was electrically stable, so they required many hundreds of these to be added to the board, based on power simulations they did. Trouble was, they wanted so many, we couldn't even build the board.
My job as the Systems Engineer here was to meet the requirements from the SI team, but also from manufacturing, and the requirement that my PCB layout techs don't go insane trying to place and route the board. SI really only cared about signal quality, so they would not relent, and I ended up getting shouted at at one point by a junior SI engineer who was also under a lot of stress, when I said "There are different schools of thought on this.." and he screamed THERE ARE NOT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ON THIS!!
It got to the point where the product was not going to get built, because we just couldn't fit like a thousand of these tiny caps on the board, we needed to ditch at least 25% of them to have a hope. The models were the models though, and you couldn't argue against them.
But then my boss got a genius idea. What if we could prove the simulation models were too conservative? We came up with an experiment where we would remove caps from an older system and measure the power supply noise, to see how many caps could be taken off before the system became unstable.
Me and the junior SI engineer were tasked with doing this experiment (later deemed The Decapitation Project), so we grabbed a Tektronix scope and Metcal soldering station and headed over to this abandoned lab we had in our old Maynard headquarters, a now creepy attic space on the 6th floor of an old mill building. Here were a few older Alphastation 3000 workstations we built years earlier, working but waiting to be recycled.
We had this special program that would thrash the CPU within an inch of its life, to put a big demand on the power supply system. While this was running, the SI engineer measured the power quality, while I proceeded to (very carefully to avoid short-circuiting the system) actually desolder caps from the board while the workstation was running.
We managed to get about 1/3 of them off before there was any noticeable effect, and we found one specific type of cap was not doing much of anything at all. We took the data back to the head of the SI team, and he finally relented and let us remove several hundred capacitors. (He also buried the report and data I had, because he didn't want the bad publicity - I remember being mad about that)
The system got built after that, and worked just fine. We did try to enact a small bit of petty revenge on the SI team manager though - there was a recognition event for people involved on the project, and me and our PCB procurement guy decided to give the SI team manager a special "Faraday Award" for achievement in capacitance (Farads are a measure of capacitance - geeky eng joke). We took an old bowling trophy with a giant, beer-can sized electrolytic capacitor strapped to the top of it as the award. He was a no-show so we didn't get to present it. Those SI guys never did have much of a sense of humor.
Anyway, long story sorry. Just thinking of it recently because I was helping someone at work with an analog simulation and I remembered this..
#hardware#engineering#digital electronics#digitalequipmentcorp#tech#retro tech#electrical engineering#computer engineering#dec#pcb#circuit#circuits#circuit design#tektronix#faraday
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VHDL Tutorial : Your First VHDL Design: VHDL Entity & Architecture - A Beginner's Guide
Welcome to the ultimate beginner's guide for Your First VHDL Design! In this video, we will dive into the fundamentals of VHDL Entity and Architecture and provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the topic. Whether you are new to VHDL or looking to refresh your knowledge, this guide is designed to help you get started and pave your way to becoming an expert VHDL designer. In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of VHDL, starting with the VHDL Entity and its crucial role in the design process. You will learn how to define and describe the inputs and outputs of your VHDL design using the Entity section, providing the necessary specifications for your project. Moving on, we will explore the VHDL Architecture, which defines the actual implementation of your design. Through a step-by-step walkthrough, you will discover how to construct the architecture block by block, ensuring a well-structured and functional VHDL design. To make the learning experience more practical, we will dive into real-world examples and demonstrate each concept using a popular VHDL software tool. You'll witness the transition from theory to practice, gaining hands-on experience in VHDL design. With this beginner's guide, you'll not only grasp the essentials of VHDL Entity and Architecture but also acquire the ability to kickstart your own VHDL designs, opening up a wide range of possibilities in digital circuit design. Subscribe to our channel for more exciting VHDL tutorials and stay tuned for upcoming videos in this series where we will explore advanced VHDL concepts and applications.
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Jennifer Roberts gave a talk on the history of circuit printing and how it interacts with printmaking. And it is available on youtube!
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差動PPの鳴り方
「各楽器の音がきちんと出ている」というのは差動PPアンプの特徴のひとつです。
差動PPアンプは「左右チャンネル間のクロストーク性能が良い」ですが、「左右チャンネル間のクロストーク性能が良い」アンプが差動PPアンプのような音がするかというとそういうわけではないんですね。
私は「各楽器の音がきちんと出ていること」がとても重要だと思っていますし、そういう鳴り方を好みます。
どういう回路にすればそういう音になるかはよくわかりませんが、私がつくると大概とそうなります。
アンプをいじって何十年という時間が経つ間に、回路設計のどこかにそういうものが染みついてしまったんだと思います。
不思議です。
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by Tetsu Kimura
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Moop.
#tmnt#teenage mutant ninja turtles#art#tmnt bayverse#bayverse tmnt#bayverse raphael#bayverse leonardo#bayverse donnie#bayverse mikey#lol not in age order; just drew them like that#character reference#character design#this one doesnt push boundaries much- maybe ill post the very turtle one later#or never lol#sketch#concept art#if you wanna use it: go ahead. all i did was change the faces for a different feel uvu#im gonna have to study muscles just to draw these guys stfg#also#bro is donnie wearing circuit boards or circuit styled cloth-
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I FUCKING WON
I WILL BE REDRAWING N PREG IN HONOR OF THIS
#MURDER DRONES#SERIAL DESIGNATION N#N PREG#circuitous behavior#i dont care if this is fake#i am overjoyed
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Computergirl with a 34inch 4k UHD 240hz ultrawide curved monitor for a head, but she only ever emotes with ASCII characters and jpegs she downloaded in 2012 so you never get to see her specs at even a fraction of her potential
#computer girl#robot girl#monster girls#character design#trans#robots#androids#computers#girls#circuit boards and diodes#i have great taste#the frog goes ribbit
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second years designs :D only have a few more characters left to do this has gone so quick ,,
jjk atla!au with @philosophiums
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk atla!au#inumaki toge#panda jjk#maki zenin#fanart#jjk fanart#lmhs#atla!au: art#atla!au: design#looks at maki............looks at maki harder..............continues looking at maki.....#she.......i believe tht Women....#short circuiting she is SO . god. im#i feel wlw in this chilis tonight#i love inumaki's design also but lets be real abt who th real star of this page is#shakes self out of Gay Stupor anyway#i only designed panda's spirit form bc out of it he is...Just A Panda...i think i can get away with not drawing Just A Panda#also it was a nice mildly stimulating challenge combining his gorilla mode form w hei bai#very kind of atla to Already have a panda spirit FHJJH saves me a lot of headache#like dont get me wrong i love feeling things out n Making my own spirit designs like w mahito#but starting from scratch sure takes a lot of brainpower hh so sometimes its nice having most of the work alr done for u
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Redefining Possibilities: Unveiling the Wonders of PCB Design
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Jean Paul Gaultier: 'Mad Max' Invitation Card autumn/winter 1995-1996
#jean paul gaultier#jpg#fashion#invitation#mad max#runway#face#circuit board#graphic design#illustrations#aw95#1995#1996
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to say toontown lives in my mind rent free would be an understatement, toontown is the landlord of the apartment complex that is my sanity. anyways heres some of my recent sketches
art meme by @purgatorei . i decided no repeats because it would just literally be ms. mingler for every single one
the new supervisor designs kinda slap tbh aka i wanted to draw the freaky smiley golf lady but decided i should do the others too
oh and then i realized its called toontown and i literally never draw the toons so i did that and then caved and drew a cog anyways im sorry for letting capitalism win
#i <3 getting fast n loose with character designs forever#my art#procreate#toontown#toontown rewritten#corporate clash#toonblr#the mingler#toontown the mingler#high roller#cc high roller#corporate clash high roller#cc rainmaker#corporate clash rainmaker#misty monsoon#wait i forgot to draw the ducks on the highrollers hat im sorry im a failure#toontown mr hollywood#mr hollywood#toontown ceo#cc witch hunter#witch hunter#corporate clash witch hunter#prester virgil#i got REAL loose with his design bc i can do wat i want forever#ttr#ttr club president#ttr factory foreman#ttr mint auditor#ttr office clerk#cc circuit breaker
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nonhuman lesbians? in MY utau? it's more likely than you think
#i love them#adachi rei#kasane teto#teto kasane#rei adachi#whats their ship name#tetodachi . adateto. tetorei#idk#fenix art#art#artists on tumblr#side note i love it when computer people design robot characters bc#im a compsci major now so i can be like “i know what that is !! thats a circuit diagram/voltage chart/whatever” its great. autism
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