not quite minimalistic enough  

Electronic sorcery

https://patreon.com/TheSignalPath

To be honest, I think RF circuits are basically magic. What with all the filters that look like triangles, and “attenuators”, and Wilkinson dividers that look just like circles on the PCB, and stuff that is not even connected but still affects the signal.

But anyway, I like hearing it explained even though just about all of it goes straight, and miles high, over my head.

Not to mention “wave guides”, rigid co-ax, and 110 GHz LeCroy scopes (cheap at 0.000009 $/Hz) that, as far as I can tell, transform the input signal like an FFT (from time domain to frequency domain) because clearly no one has yet built a processor that could possibly keep up with it, process it, then reconstitute the input as a wave form and then claim to do FFT on it.

His cat, Pooch (?), alone is worth the money, though. I’m sure there must be some video where (s)he (?) ruins some expensive board by stepping on it, and I’m determined to find it.

One dollar per video. Here we go!

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Written on August 13, 2017