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    Book Reviews

    Just my general bookshelf but... For general use I like to keep a hard copy of CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. (Wistful recollections of the same publisher's Handbook... Engineering Sciences.) Another good CRC book I have is the Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. I recommend any...
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    Unknown chip that looks blown

    :) Might well be a multilayer board :(
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    Comedy Thread

    Seems a bit nasty. It's a style of "humour" I've seen before - in Groucho Marx, and in Charlie Sheen. They were nasty people.
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    And now something weird

    there's something very wrong with the promotion of lies though. Call that my theory I like the bubble bots much better than the pyramid hypothesis
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    And now something weird

    Shit like this gets an equal hearing in the minds of the unwashed because they couldn't understand their school work (especially maths) and so gave up on all forms of scientific knowledge. Bad education; time present is not time well spent at school - incapable teachers... the world has...
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    Comedy Thread

    Perhaps I can find a crummy 'nough joke fourier... Why do electronics engineers carry a pencil and paper into haunted houses? To draw their own conclusions. A circuit designer walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We have two kinds of beer here: analog and digital." The designer asks, "What's...
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    Comedy Thread

    :rolleyes: Apologies for the subtle, higher frequency information lost - I was only trying to rectify the matter. Thomas Bowdler
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    Comedy Thread

    there were some worrisome sub-harmonics which seemed to originate from her mother
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    Comedy Thread

    No. It's because when electricians become ionised they become mutually replulsive and go off by themselves. It's basically the same with cooks.
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    Comedy Thread

    that gives me onion eyes and crocodile tears there are 2 bacteria going into a bar and the bouncer doesn't like the look of them they just duck under his hands and in they say you can't stop us, we're staph
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    Unknown chip that looks blown

    :) Electronics manufacturers feel pressure to sell. Accordingly they use bespoke components, and make the equipment hard to fix. If not all manufacturers are like that then some must go broke fast. (I hear that if huge money is involved, the equipment is not only impossible to fix without the...
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    Inside My Electronics Lab: Where Ideas Turn Into Circuits

    :) so check this out, @ivak245 https://kudmitry.com/articles/dead-internet-theory/
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    Inside My Electronics Lab: Where Ideas Turn Into Circuits

    :) Does anyone else wonder? I've read, and re-read, these sentences several times: "From testing components to debugging circuits, this space has become my playground for learning and experimenting. Whether it’s microcontrollers, sensors, or power electronics, I’m always trying to push my...
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    IR Spectrometer Project: Is This Project Within My Reach?

    :) Thanks @olivia_49 I've been through a bit of a cooling-off with my machine design - but maybe I'm warming up again. Perseverance is often a virtue - don't I like being virtuous? The diffraction grating making machine (DFGM) isn't finished yet - there's still maybe a grand or $1500 to spend...
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    Inside My Electronics Lab: Where Ideas Turn Into Circuits

    :) I wonder what kind of testing you've been doing... what sort of gear you have been working on.
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    Comedy Thread

    A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. Example 1) Jill ate her friend's sandwich 2) Jill ate her friend's colon.
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    IR Spectrometer Project: Is This Project Within My Reach?

    Thanks :) Yes that's one way to do it - by using a Michelson interferometer. Because I am prejudiced against common sense, and because I like to test myself all the time to see if my insights are real, I had been considering another way to do the detection. I think your insights are real enough...
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    Comedy Thread

    Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to...
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    Comedy Thread

    Yes, "like"... but really I'd be watching from the standoffs. so, question: What would an Olympic Electronicsist do, anyway? Have we a challenger amongst us for the blindfold microwave oven repair heats? On consideration, yes, electronics design is, in general, fairly nightmarish except that...
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    Comedy Thread

    Why did the quantum computer cross the road? Because its state was in a superposition of "chicken" and "road," and it only decided which it was when we observed it at the punchline!
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