dahtguy

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by dahtguy 6y ago
I've never really used their search in general, can't comment on it. I feel like most "piece part" searches are pretty terrible. I would just use Digikey and slowly set all the filters you asked for. Every other "pr
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by dahtguy 7y ago
Which is a total shame, because those labels are the best discovery engines! If you want a great source of new content, that's effectively their full time job. The distribution and content quality of Tiny Engines, Topshelf Records, Pol
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by dahtguy 7y ago
My mind is blown! I've always associated Linear with precision work, can't believe it was all built on eBay equipment. Doesn't seem very Jim Williams...
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by dahtguy 8y ago
While manufacturer's may have very small deviations in their footprints, by and large almost every IC conforms to some kind of JEDEC compliant package. From there, IPC-7351B [1] has mathematical recommendations on footprints ranging fr
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Astranis (YC W16) lands anchor customer for its first small GEO satellite(spacenews.com)
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by dahtguy 8y ago
I use PCBway and generally get all my designs within an 8 day turnaround time.
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by dahtguy 8y ago
While I think your assessment is correct, I do want to note that it's not like starting with Eagle, Altium, Orcad, etc is going to be easier. Just jumping into a complex, domain specific piece of software is tough, but totally worth it
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by dahtguy 8y ago
PCBway has been outstanding for my personal projects. Ludicrously cheap to the point where I have no problem buying 4 or 5 extra copies just in case!
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by dahtguy 8y ago
Not necessarily. I've never heard of anyone doing it for space (maybe SpaceX?) but you could have an SDR driving a massive MIMO/beamforming array. The SDR can then dynamically "change the antenna" (change the radiation p
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by dahtguy 9y ago
Same, but I'm pretty damn happy being born when I am. The insane amount of material that's on Digikey is just way too useful now. I have a nice poster of the "Every Idiot Can Count to One" quote at home, think it's
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by dahtguy 9y ago
Yeah, it would require quite a bit. Note that while it can input a massive frequency band (10M to 3.5G), the sampling rate is quite small (~31MS/s). Would work much better as a spectrum analyzer than a time domain viewer. You can defin
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by dahtguy 9y ago
A PSoC-focused design trades flexibility for price, power, and performance. Hard sell.
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by dahtguy 9y ago
Not sure what they called our definition of a billion, but that was definitely the naming scheme [0] [0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-bill...
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by dahtguy 9y ago
What's so bad about high-Z inputs? Designing around a floating input is the same as designing around an undefined variable. Bad design but you can't "hurt" the hardware.