huge shout-out to @gimpofficial.bsky.social, it's made my obsessive scope shot editing possible, pixel-by-pixel (trying to replicate what AoE did, maybe with my own twist) (colours are just me playing around)

have the people who keep recommending FPGAs for fast ADC sampling never heard of the RP2 family and PIO😒 (processing at that speed becomes a question mark though 🥴)

today I embraced chaos and started a new project despite having 39203342 unfinished ones

meanwhile rpi be like: "who wants to buy my cheap chips/boards?" *everyone* "who wants to install my lightweight (open-source) SDK?" *everyone*

just tested the TLV1871, looks like it's a worthy successor to the LM311! the package is a bit of a handful to solder though, but otherwise I love the ±15 V capability and the push pull output

now I can have another shot at testing the comparator... thanks @aisler.net 😋 (NNNI25 for €10 off!)

treats from @aisler.net 😋 (NNNI25 for €10 off)

I made a silly noob mistake and fried a brand new comparator... but that's another chance to redo the board (with input dividers so I can set a threshold!) and send it off to @aisler.net 😋

it never fails to amaze me how uni turns something as interesting as electronics into THE most boring mathematical slop

thanks @aisler.net ! (NNNI25 for €10 off 😜)

this one ended up slightly weird because I want MAXIMUM decoupling for the LT1016 ultrafast comparator

this idea might be a dud, at least the way I've implemented it here... whoops!

the sampling voltage tracker samples voltages and tracks!

another weekend another side project

ddl.red/hate-ai 👀

it feels so nice to finally have a project for parts I've had lying around for ages... I need adapters though, I wonder where to go😏

here's another waveform, I've posted a spice simulation of this before and it's so cool to see this in real life (feedforward pending)

@aisler.net loot part 3/3! arranging the PCBs this way took way too long (NNNI25 for €10 off at Aisler😌)

it's that time of the year again!

@aisler.net loot part 2/3! this is shaping up to be a good weekend (NNNI25 for €10 off at Aisler😇)

bonus PWM

@aisler.net loot part 1/3! PCBs hold up to close inspection and look very delicious too😋 these days, I always get mine with the rapid registration stencil, a template for which can be freely downloaded and printed! thank you Aisler for the constant support! (NNNI25 for €10 off at Aisler😇)

another one for the october PCB design bonanza

wien bridge works, the AGC was finicky but now that's up and running too

today we're doing low-THD sine generators... the core oscillator is up and running, I need to get the automatic gain control circuit and notch filter (for measurement of THD) built

second one... and this is one of those designs that I'm personally not really happy with, but I'll have to put up with it because it's a "test" board and I am too tired to think of something prettier (laying it out took two weeks) ...

yep... 27 days later, I have something I'm happy with... off to @aisler.net !

can't we just call it big statistics instead of humanizing it by calling it intelligence

ah yes, my daily dose of "AI".... it's the age of "AI" bro.... (more like it's the age where you can convince people that a stupid statistical model is "AI" and go larping like it's sentient to monger fear and get clicks... when will this DIE)

always feel grateful to be here 🇩🇪 🇪🇺

the fact that I'm doing a bachelor's degree in EE is purely incidental, just saying because people assume the reason I'm doing this is because I'm studying it, when it's the opposite - I'm studying this because what else should I study after being a hobbyist since I was 13

pretty patterns

every decade we let 90% of the population fade into darkness while 10% benefit

I think in an ideal world, LLMs and other statistical algorithms, instead of being hyped and fearmongered as "AI", would instead be something like "statistical natural language search engine / text processor (trained on X source)", but that doesn't sound like it's going to get you billions, eh?

trust me bro quantization is the key

it's so bad, bring back the vertical line pin 1 indicator

this is like a super simple design but I'm sure I'm going to obsess about the layout for WEEKS, I can feel it inside

this started out as a note to self but I think it's pretty helpful in understanding how PIO works

>okay ima make this test more realistic >damn that broke it, now gotta fix it

I love PIO, went from timing diagram sketch this morning to working thing this afternoon

actually why the hell are we even working on "AI", or even AI, do a few people who think they are doing stuff that is "good for humanity" get to decide what monstrosity they unleash on the rest of us

so like I'm trying to have a normal day just living life 1. I get pinged about an "AI" article 2. I get DMed an "AI" news piece 3. first thing in my youtube sub feed is ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT "AI" (sorry welch labs I love you but I'm sick of "AI" content, just make your usual videos) STOP IT ALREADY 😃🔫

nothing like a weekend project (ish) to get your spirits up (board from @aisler.net, thank you, and NNNI25 for €10 off😋)

to follow up, here's a pathetic one that ends with a pathetic "We don't get to choose whether AI exists. We do get to choose what we do with it." freedium.cfd/https://medi...

malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever... good one, worth sharing

ebooks suck because you can't smell the pages

being a huge seal fan, I am disappointed to note that @discord.com's :seal: emoji is actually a sea lion! seals don't use their foreflippers this way, plus they can't pivot their hind flippers! I also spot an ear flap that true seals (pinnipeds) don't have 🤓

www.edn.com/electronic-w... this DI (and even the reply to a comment by the great Woodward!) reeks of LLM-generated text... sad! 🤒

the best part is when people ignore the link and come back to you later asking about something THAT WAS IN THE LINK ALREADY

the fact that 2040 made it on the list is incredible