#kicad #schematic #electronics
I did my first schematic(WIP) ever, in KiCad.

I have to wire it on the perfboard now. I do not want to do that, it will be a mess probably. If only there was some tool to automatically find optimal/close-to-optimal layout. I have 3.3V, 5V, 6V, 12V(battery) on a single board. I did not add buck converters yet(6v, 6v)

Any perfboard layout tips are welcome!  

Complaining⚠️ :
I kind of did not like the workflow.
I wish it was a lot more automatic, parametric like geometry CADs.

Dragging components is scary, it breaks everything:
- wires connect randomly
- things just stay in place, disconnect

I want automatic wire routing and arrangement on schematic, I just specify what connects to what, and it won't change those connections.

I wanted something that feels like writing Rust, when the tooling is smart and robust. This felt very manual like traditional graphical editor, word-processor.

I do hope there's a circle of #hell reserved for those who put electronics projects and tutorials online without ever including a #schematic for them.

#electronics #hobby #OneJob #CircleOfHell #project

All the #yeasu #ft101 service manuals online are pretty low resolution.

This really hinders the ability to read the schematics and PCB diagrams.

Given I had an original manual on loan, I decided to scan all the important bits in 600 dpi:

https://archive.org/details/ft-101-high-resolution-service-manual-schematics

You can now finally see where components go on PCBs

#schematic

I decided to tidy up my computer since I had a bit of free time.
One email popped up saying that I couldn’t use their desktop app for cloud drive synchronization without a subscription. Not a problem - I’d be more than happy to delete your app.
And while I was looking through the list of apps, my attention stopped on EAGLE from Autodesk - an app for designing schematics and PCB.
This news has probably already become just another unremarkable sentence somewhere on Wikipedia [citation needed], but for me it was a tremendous disappointment that couldn’t be fully conveyed even in a single lengthy novel.

#autodesk #eagle #fusion -> #kicad
#electronics #schematic

Philips PM3206 oscilloscope service manual with full schematics. Perfect condition. Still in 1989 stamped envelope from its original source in the Netherlands.

Send me carriage cost by PayPal etc and I'll forward it to you from UK. Thanks

#vintage #oscilloscope #schematic #service #manual #original #electronic #repairs #equipment

Why can't ChatGPT figure out the difference between a crossed line and a junction point in a schematic. Now way to get it to understand. ☹️

#openai #chatgpt #cirquit #schematic #kicad

A Glimpse of Our Future Democracy

If you like political schematics, this article will be interesting:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=30&id=512

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#schematic

Remember Computer Chronicles? Remember that schematic? I never found out what it depicts, but I recreated it as vector graphics, because why not? 😅

#computer #computerchronicles #retro #hardware #schematic