Re: USB microscopes for very small SMT


Joel Koltner wrote:

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Guess Samsung found a back road then because the HD on there is 160GB.

The full story turns out to be, "...it used to be 80GB [not the 60GB I
guessed/wrote], and MS recently doubled it to 160GB."

Personally the hard drive size is the least of my worries... I'd be quite
happy with 40GB for a netbook; the screen resolution limitation is much more
irksome.

I found 1GB under XP to be plenty for the typical EE-tasks on the road.

Agreed, I just find it annoying that manufacturers go so far as to
misrepresent their hardware's capabilities so as to make Microsquish happy.

But seriously, there won't be much of an audience.

That's OK... contact Newnes, they'll publish anything. :-)

And at least PDF stick around forever. Hopefully those old books by the likes
of Terman and Guillemin will be scanned before all the printed copies are
gone!


http://www.pmillett.com/technical_books_online.htm may have some of
them for free download.


I can't cater much to folks that run a uC to perform the job of a one-shot
and stuff like that, and somehow that seems to become the majority these
days.

Yeah, but it doesn't seem like you really need much of a market. Check out,
"Intuitive Analog Circuit Design" by Marc Thompson
(http://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-Analog-Circuit-Design-Thompson/dp/0750677864)...
it's been around for two-and-a-half years, and has all of 3 reviews: A good
one, one where the guy gripes the title is inaccurate (OK, fine, "intuitive"
is a very subjective thing), and another where the guy completely misses the
point of the book, saying:

"...it walks the reader through formulas a circuit designer would hardly ever
use, except when in school..." (Well, actually, no, people doing more
advanced circuit design still run through those time constant calculations and
lots of basic algebra... check out Jim's web site...)
"If you need to learn how to design analog circuits, there are many "cook
books" out there to get the job done fast." (Ah, now we see what he's really
after -- not wanting to learn how to actually *design* at all, but wanting a
cookbook...)

(And who the heck is Marc Thompson anyway? Turns out he's a professor at WPI,
went to MIT...)

I doubt he's getting rich off of book royalties. :-)

So maybe it'll be a web site and self-publication, free to the public.

Cool, that's great.

There comes a point where one has to give back to society. And still, this
will pale compared to what volunteers at Hospice do. We were at their yearly
memorial event yesterday and it amazed me what they do.

Volunteering to work at a hospice clearly has very direct benefits, which is
great... but don't sell yourself short on the good that, e.g., your work on
ultrasound machines over the years has done as well: The indirect benefit
could easily be plenty of babies' lives saved, tumors discovered early enough
for successful treatment, etc.

---Joel


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