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Electronics has and likely always will feel like arcane magic to me
by bowsamic 3y ago
Electronics has and likely always will feel like arcane magic to me
- al2o3cr 3y agoMy favorite bit of "electronics magic": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7DzTIFJdU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7DzTIFJdU (this has more to do with TFA and impedance-in-general than might meet the eye at first glance)
- BenFranklin100 3y agoGet this book: https://www.opencircuitsbook.com/ https://www.opencircuitsbook.com/ It’s a book featuring macro photographs of cut-aways of electronic components. It’s the first book that helped me really think of electronic components as a physical things whose function followed from physical principles, rather than an arcane collection of various bits of black magic strung together.
- CliffStoll 3y agoWindell Oskay & Eric Schlaepfer's book has brilliant photographs and insightful text ... a coffee table book to delight any techie. They slice through connectors, semiconductors, and components ... showing the wonderful microscopic world of everyday electronics. A real joy!
- NikolaNovak 3y agoI agree! I kinda know nothing about electronics since "my first electronic kit" as a 8 year old, and that book of cutaways shocked me as how many things in my computer aren't nanoscale magic!
- nomel 3y agoIt’s a beautiful demonstration of how increasing one parameter (frequency) can successively invalidate whatever model you’re using for the system, where negligible errors in the model eventually become functional circuit components.
- detourdog 3y agofrequency exposes the efficiency of transmission through a material.
- akiselev 3y agoThat's why one of the best books on high speed digital electronics is titled High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-Digital-Design-Handbook/dp/0133957241 https://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-Digital-Design-Handbook/dp...
- timemct 3y agoEspecially when you think about what electronics are made of: things mined from the earth. They made rocks compute for us!
- charcircuit 3y agoWhere else would they come from, the moon? It's to be expected that for large scale products like computers to be made from common materials.
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- pclmulqdq 3y agoHigh-speed digital and RF are more "magical" than a lot of other forms of electronics. It is quite a bit more approachable if you limit yourself to ~200 MHz signals at most, then you don't really have to worry about the RF properties of your circuits as long as you keep the wires pretty short.
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