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To those who argue "my VPN can't track me because I pay them in bitcoin":

You know they have your IP address, right?



shower thought (dark)
What if the reason we've never seen a time traveler isn't because it's impossible, but because humanity is going to wipe itself out before anyone figures out how?
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

shower thought (less light alternative)

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electronics hobby ramblings

So, I was bemoaning the fact that finding chips in a DIP format is getting harder and harder because everything's moving to SMT. I don't hate SMT chips, but they make it rather difficult to play with them on a breadboard before using them in a project.

It just occurred to me that if I'm going to the trouble of designing a PCB in the first place, nothing stops me from sticking a single chip on a PCB with a bunch of pin headers to turn it into a quick and dirty "DIP chip" for experimenting with on a breadboard. I can even do this with a bunch of different chips on a single PCB that breaks out into multiple different units.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to have thought of this, but it was definitely an "aha" moment for me.



I love it when the photo of a component and the schematic drawing on the data sheet disagree with each other.

(e.g.: digikey.ca/en/products/detail/…)

Guess I'll have to wait 'till I have the physical component in my possession to find out for sure.



It's been a while, but I just put a DigiKey order through. Gonna build a thing!





For all the filtering options that DigiKey has on their web site, I wish you could filter based on minimum order quantity.

No, I do not want to buy 3000 voltage regulators.



bear/man
So, I mentioned the whole bear/man debate to Katy, and she gave a perspective I hadn't even thought to consider. Sharing (paraphrased) with her permission:
When a bear attacks you, you generally die and then it's over. When a man attacks, you live with that trauma for life.















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