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I’ve been jokingly calling my electronics hobby of the past few years “getting my EE degree.” Putting together PCBs, reading and replicating schematics, design

by mlsu 1y ago

I’ve been jokingly calling my electronics hobby of the past few years “getting my EE degree.” Putting together PCBs, reading and replicating schematics, designing my own hardware. It’s been really fun and has paid dividends for my career (firmware). If the US is interested in bringing knowledge of manufacturing back this is a very very bad way to do it. How many undergrad projects are now impossible because the BOM has quadrupled? How many future mechanical/electrical engineers are not going to get into hardware because of this? It’s all going to be gone. I’ve spent roughly $1200 last year having PCBs and ordering sensors etc. that goes to $4000 with these executive orders. It’s insanity, pure insanity.

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y ago
There is a small part of that wonders if it is by design given how much it exposes a person to the inner workings of the things they use daily, but then I bring myself back to reality. I sincerely doubt now there is a real long term plan at work here. At best it is all situational and reactive ( tactical, maybe, but not strategic thinking at work ).
- KumaBear 1y ago
  There is no plan it’s instincts. Complete devoid of actual thoughts.
- godelski 1y ago
  Both can be true. There was incentive to prevent people from building, repairing, and modifying things. It need not be malicious with the intent to prevent people from getting into the field. Instead it only need be naïve and selfish. Sony suing because people put Linux on their PS3. Remember these people will also try to sue white hat hackers who submit vulnerability reports. It's not a long term plan to destroy, instead it's an extremely short sighted and naïve plan to build a wall and protect. You'll find that naïve shortsightedness often is indistinguishable from malicious foresight, when looked back upon. So remember how to stop it: think of the little things, the compounding effects. There's always costs and trades being made, there's no free lunch. As the world gets more advanced it gets more complex. The more complex it gets the more those little subtle things matter
sargstuff 1y ago
Side hobby insantities not limited to 'ee degree hobbies'! -> Many companies got started as 'side ventures' aka Facebook, MS Windows, Dell, Nerf and multitude of other companies. Use VR / simuations to cut down on Milton Hershey[1] cost issues. Simulations can allow for 'timing the tarrifs'. North American FPGA's may be a thing again! (once pi systems superceeds lambda systems as the multi-FPGA board connection theory of choice :-) Save on robotic automation costs via software scripts! Perhaps 3d printed circuit boards will now be a more realisitic alterntative than traditional outsourcing board production? [2][3][4] Perhaps there'll be some motivation/inspiration for creating/combining standard programming logic/language/3d 'threaded' sock it programming by combining (2021) mathematics of knitting[5]; and more modern / inexpensive / upgraded 'general computational device' derived from apollo guidence computer[6] concept. aka instead of wasm, weave-em. Do have to get over the 'stich in time, saves nine', since most modern computation 'saves in 8'. Easy to unravel program(s). Tight knit spreadsheets! But, computational e-ink might scale better using DBOS concepts[7]. ------------------------------------------------------- [1] : https://hersheystory.org/milton-hershey-history/ https://hersheystory.org/milton-hershey-history/ [2] : https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ajll6s/3d_printing_circuit_boards/?rdt=40678 https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ajll6s/3d_prin... [3] : direct desk top printed circuits on paper flexible electronics : https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01786 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01786 [4] : 3d printed circuit board : https://all3dp.com/1/3d-printed-circuit-boards-pcb/ https://all3dp.com/1/3d-printed-circuit-boards-pcb/ [5] : https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-one-physicist-unraveling-mathematics-knitting https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-one-physicist-unrave... [6] : https://nerdfighteria.info/v/f2ZCVnk-oRU/ https://nerdfighteria.info/v/f2ZCVnk-oRU/ [7] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBOS

by mlsu 1y ago

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y ago

There is a small part of that wonders if it is by design given how much it exposes a person to the inner workings of the things they use daily, but then I bring myself back to reality. I sincerely doubt now there is a real long term plan at work here. At best it is all situational and reactive ( tactical, maybe, but not strategic thinking at work ).

KumaBear 1y ago
There is no plan it’s instincts. Complete devoid of actual thoughts.
godelski 1y ago
Both can be true. There was incentive to prevent people from building, repairing, and modifying things. It need not be malicious with the intent to prevent people from getting into the field. Instead it only need be naïve and selfish. Sony suing because people put Linux on their PS3. Remember these people will also try to sue white hat hackers who submit vulnerability reports. It's not a long term plan to destroy, instead it's an extremely short sighted and naïve plan to build a wall and protect. You'll find that naïve shortsightedness often is indistinguishable from malicious foresight, when looked back upon. So remember how to stop it: think of the little things, the compounding effects. There's always costs and trades being made, there's no free lunch. As the world gets more advanced it gets more complex. The more complex it gets the more those little subtle things matter

sargstuff 1y ago

Side hobby insantities not limited to 'ee degree hobbies'! -> Many companies got started as 'side ventures' aka Facebook, MS Windows, Dell, Nerf and multitude of other companies. Use VR / simuations to cut down on Milton Hershey[1] cost issues. Simulations can allow for 'timing the tarrifs'. North American FPGA's may be a thing again! (once pi systems superceeds lambda systems as the multi-FPGA board connection theory of choice :-) Save on robotic automation costs via software scripts! Perhaps 3d printed circuit boards will now be a more realisitic alterntative than traditional outsourcing board production? [2][3][4] Perhaps there'll be some motivation/inspiration for creating/combining standard programming logic/language/3d 'threaded' sock it programming by combining (2021) mathematics of knitting[5]; and more modern / inexpensive / upgraded 'general computational device' derived from apollo guidence computer[6] concept. aka instead of wasm, weave-em. Do have to get over the 'stich in time, saves nine', since most modern computation 'saves in 8'. Easy to unravel program(s). Tight knit spreadsheets! But, computational e-ink might scale better using DBOS concepts[7]. ------------------------------------------------------- [1] : https://hersheystory.org/milton-hershey-history/ https://hersheystory.org/milton-hershey-history/ [2] : https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ajll6s/3d_printing_circuit_boards/?rdt=40678 https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ajll6s/3d_prin... [3] : direct desk top printed circuits on paper flexible electronics : https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01786 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01786 [4] : 3d printed circuit board : https://all3dp.com/1/3d-printed-circuit-boards-pcb/ https://all3dp.com/1/3d-printed-circuit-boards-pcb/ [5] : https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-one-physicist-unraveling-mathematics-knitting https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-one-physicist-unrave... [6] : https://nerdfighteria.info/v/f2ZCVnk-oRU/ https://nerdfighteria.info/v/f2ZCVnk-oRU/ [7] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBOS