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Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 as did eevBlog: https://www.e

by pppp 9y ago

Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 as did eevBlog: https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/ https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/

davidkuhta 9y ago
Thanks for sharing, I was wondering if others existed Also, lol, eevBlog: > A handy 7″ PCB ruler, don’t settle for an average 6 incher!
- vvanders 9y ago
  Dave Jones is a riot, his videos are equally hilarious and informative. If you're interested at all in modern electronics I highly recommend giving them a watch.
  - cglace 9y ago
    I stumbled across his videos about a month ago and couldn't stop watching. Great stuff!
- tzs 9y ago
  I saw some marketing material from a hard disk maker in the '80s that said something like 5 1/4 hard is better than 8 inches floppy. I wonder how many complaints HR would receive nowadays if some marketing person put that in a draft they circulated for review?
rzzzt 9y ago
AvE also has one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-them-all-cheeky-jokes https://www.etsy.com/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-the...
- dawnerd 9y ago
  Also has another variation https://www.etsy.com/listing/519921651/welders-ruler?ref=shop_home_feat_3 https://www.etsy.com/listing/519921651/welders-ruler?ref=sho...
  - digi_owl 9y ago
    Pecker detector.
- nugi 9y ago
  I immediately thought of this one. Perhaps more useful to the 99% of us who dont work with SMD. I am sure the 'detector' would provide amusement to a few people.
  - tesseract 9y ago
    I'm pretty sure more than 1% of electrical engineers have worked with SMD - they're tough to avoid these days, unless you are strictly doing microelectronics, or a power engineer bolting things together with bus bars.
    - mkl 9y ago
      We are not all electrical engineers.
      - CamperBob2 9y ago
        You won't even be a hobbyist for much longer, unless you make your peace with SMD. Relax. It's fun. Assimilate.
  - qume 9y ago
    Im finding SMD easier than through hole. Reflow the board and your soldering is done in one step. And PCB production is so cheap and fast now.
jaysonelliot 9y ago
Looks like that Adafruit ruler is a branded version of the PCB rulers that are all over eBay. They all have the same design with the phrase "one PCB to RULER them all" on the back.
- deleted 9y ago
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- tesseract 9y ago
  The Adafruit ruler is open source (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-PCB-Ruler https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-PCB-Ruler) - I suspect the eBay ones are clones of it.
ec109685 9y ago
Given how prevelent these rulers are in the industry, it seems a little disingenuous for the article to make it sound like it was dreamed up from scratch. More like “this type of ruler is a good idea, we should have one of our own”.
sytelus 9y ago
This is not as good as NVidia ruler, unfortunately. From one of the Amazon reviews: its neat, not as neat as the nvidia ruler that my boss showed me, i bought this one on a wim after my boss showed me the one his son got from nvidia, the nvidia one had alot more stuff because it was a 12" ruler, i either neglected to see this was a 6in ruler, but im pretty sure it didn't mention it before, it does now, but i got it and was totally disappointed at the tiny ruler..

by pppp 9y ago

davidkuhta 9y ago

Thanks for sharing, I was wondering if others existed Also, lol, eevBlog: > A handy 7″ PCB ruler, don’t settle for an average 6 incher!

vvanders 9y ago
Dave Jones is a riot, his videos are equally hilarious and informative. If you're interested at all in modern electronics I highly recommend giving them a watch.
- cglace 9y ago
  I stumbled across his videos about a month ago and couldn't stop watching. Great stuff!
tzs 9y ago
I saw some marketing material from a hard disk maker in the '80s that said something like 5 1/4 hard is better than 8 inches floppy. I wonder how many complaints HR would receive nowadays if some marketing person put that in a draft they circulated for review?

rzzzt 9y ago

AvE also has one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-them-all-cheeky-jokes https://www.etsy.com/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-the...

dawnerd 9y ago
Also has another variation https://www.etsy.com/listing/519921651/welders-ruler?ref=shop_home_feat_3 https://www.etsy.com/listing/519921651/welders-ruler?ref=sho...
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Pecker detector.
nugi 9y ago
I immediately thought of this one. Perhaps more useful to the 99% of us who dont work with SMD. I am sure the 'detector' would provide amusement to a few people.
- tesseract 9y ago
  I'm pretty sure more than 1% of electrical engineers have worked with SMD - they're tough to avoid these days, unless you are strictly doing microelectronics, or a power engineer bolting things together with bus bars.
  - mkl 9y ago
    We are not all electrical engineers.
    - CamperBob2 9y ago
      You won't even be a hobbyist for much longer, unless you make your peace with SMD. Relax. It's fun. Assimilate.
- qume 9y ago
  Im finding SMD easier than through hole. Reflow the board and your soldering is done in one step. And PCB production is so cheap and fast now.

jaysonelliot 9y ago

Looks like that Adafruit ruler is a branded version of the PCB rulers that are all over eBay. They all have the same design with the phrase "one PCB to RULER them all" on the back.

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tesseract 9y ago
The Adafruit ruler is open source (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-PCB-Ruler https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-PCB-Ruler) - I suspect the eBay ones are clones of it.

ec109685 9y ago

Given how prevelent these rulers are in the industry, it seems a little disingenuous for the article to make it sound like it was dreamed up from scratch. More like “this type of ruler is a good idea, we should have one of our own”.

sytelus 9y ago

This is not as good as NVidia ruler, unfortunately. From one of the Amazon reviews: its neat, not as neat as the nvidia ruler that my boss showed me, i bought this one on a wim after my boss showed me the one his son got from nvidia, the nvidia one had alot more stuff because it was a 12" ruler, i either neglected to see this was a 6in ruler, but im pretty sure it didn't mention it before, it does now, but i got it and was totally disappointed at the tiny ruler..