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I had to take an electrical engineering course in college. That lab was the worst. You'd set up the circuits in the board and it wouldn't work. You'd ask the TA
by bena 6y ago
I had to take an electrical engineering course in college. That lab was the worst. You'd set up the circuits in the board and it wouldn't work. You'd ask the TA and he'd say you did it wrong. Check the design, check the pins, everything looks good. Still doesn't work. Two or three more rounds of this, finally get the TA over, he checks it over two or three times before concluding it's the board that's the problem.
Either that or the chips. There were always a few that were bad. So you didn't know if you had a bad board or a bad chip or were using bad paths on a chip.
- goliatone 6y agoSimilar experience but we also had to deal with randomly failing multimeters and defective components. It was very frustrating but gave me a foundation for software debugging skills that proved valuable, not being able to take any component for granted and understand that even if most times is a human error sometimes the fundamental pieces of infra are also defective. However, sadly, it made me dislike HW design :/