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Looks like ASML started planting the seeds of what eventually became EUV in the early 1990s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266708

Sounds like just another day in the consumer electronics world … Were you working on electrical systems or mechanical? How did the switch to software engineering go for you / what made you switch?

Inspiring story. What is the barrier of entry for selling gadgets on Tindie? Do you need to get FCC certifications for example?

Out of curiosity, what feature of Altium was holding you from switching to KiCad until now?

I re-read this classic article on the explosions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from time to time.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

Unfortunately all ECAD fools are quite terrible when it comes to usability, even the commercial ones (Altium, Cadence, Mentor and their ilk). I expect that KiCad’s design is influenced with what’s “standard” in the industry as far the UX of ECAD tools is concerned.

Congrats to the KiCad Team! KiCad 6 is a huge leap from 5.x. For anyone curious, here is a good review of improvements in KiCad 6 : https://techexplorations.com/blog/kicad/kicad-6-review-new-a...

If you don’t mind me asking, what EDA tool are you guys using at the moment at Oxide for your motherboards?

Cool! What is the tech stack behind it if you don’t me asking?

You guys are using y.js to implement the world right? Are CRDTs commonly used in the video games space? And if you don’t mind explaining, why did you go with y.js over Automerge?

This is how I make yogurt as well. I can get a pretty consistent 40C in the oven this way.

Have you tried with 5.99? I think it supports svg imports onto copper layers now.

Neat idea, here is a few suggestions:

- you should post the solder mask and paste layers. Can’t review any component soldering issues without those.

- part assembly layer, same deal as above.

- stackup. You would need this to review anything more than a 2 layer board.

Question- have you tried overlaying the renders for different layers of the board? It is hard to review the one example you have on the website. The bottom and top layers are in different places so I have to mentally connect dots.

This is an aside but: what made you switch away from hardware engineering? And what are you doing nowadays?

This looks wonderful, thank you! I think statistical estimation of large projects is an overlooked area.

This is a little different than what the OP is asking but - I programmed an Xbox controller so that its buttons can act as left and right mouse buttons. This helps relieve fatigue in my right hand when I am working on mouse-intensive CAD work like laying out circuit boards etc.

Write-up here : https://iskender.ee/2020/12/27/Dual-Mouse.html

Curious - why did you get out of FPGA development, and what do you work on now?

I have anecdotally heard of FPGA/RTL devs leaving the field mostly because of the poor tooling etc.

This is what Amazon does. The bonus is distributed over every paycheck.

The Soul of a New Machine is awesome.

Exactly the application I had in my mind. aperrin, does the tool recognize letters as well, or is it numbers only for now?

This biography of the chief rocket designer of the Soviets, Sergei Korolev, is also a good introduction to the Soviet space program.

https://www.amazon.com/Korolev-Masterminded-Soviet-Drive-Ame...

What do you think are the main differences between the pre-2000 academia and the academia now?

The operation manual of the original IBM PC from 1981 is a very good example.

Personal plug: I wrote an article about writing specs a while back. I use the IBM PC spec as an example, so you might find my article useful.

https://iskender.ee/2020/06/18/EE-Specs.html

Thank you!

This is really interesting - do you have any links to the documents you mention?

“1491” goes into great detail on this subject - highly recommended.

Not a product per se, but I wrote my first real blog post. I had it stewing as a draft forever, and with coronavirus I had no excuses anymore to not finish the draft.

https://iskender.ee/EE-Specs/

I also completed an electronic art project that I have been making as a gift for a friend. It is a PCB which looks like a linocut of an airport, but with LEDs on it that mimic an airport's lighting at night. Hoping to write the process that went into making it on my blog soon.

Thanks so much! Time-nuts looks like a gem. I was starting to learn about serdes, so more the reason to check out [1].

I agree that the non-pro iPad delivers the best pen experience for price. Surface Pro’s pen is pretty good, but IMO it is slightly worse than the iPad, while being more expensive.

Software wise, the iPad has way more pen focused productivity apps than Windows. On Windows, you are mostly limited to OneNote. Although Drawboard is pretty good for annotating PDF’s.

Fascinating! Do you know of any good textbooks or application notes that go into jitter measurement techniques?

I found this note from Keysight, is this is a good place to start?

http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5988-6254EN.pd...