[Noisebridge-discuss] Art of Electronics [Book]

[jim]

   A Story 

   A business made technical products. The owners took 
pride in their quality and each year went to the best 
engineering schools to hire the best graduates. 
   For two or three decades the company did well, but 
at some point the owners (engineers themselves) noted 
that their quality was slipping. They hired a 
consultant to help remedy. 
   The consultant came on site for a couple of weeks 
and finally reported to the owners: 
   "I've interviewed your engineers and have found a 
correlation. Some of your engineers produce high 
quality designs and some do not. Those that produce 
high quality designs have in common that they all fix 
their own cars." 

   It seems that good designers need more than math 
and reading; there is some learning that comes from 
hand work. There's a claim that the part of the brain 
that controls finger movement also is responsible for 
language. 



On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 14:58 -0700, Josh Myer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Michael Shiloh
> <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Wow. That's awesome. I didn't realize the book was available
>         for
>         downloading.
>         
> 
> 
> This is clearly not a legal, legit copy.  There's a dead tree version
> at Noisebridge, someplace.
>  
>         What is this Electronics Workbench of which you speak?
>         
> 
> 
> EWB is apparently now known as National Instruments Multisim.  It's a
> rather expensive (but really nice) SPICE frontend.  I used it about a
> decade ago, when it was still Electronics Workbench, and loved it.
> 
> 
> On the other hand, when you meet a EE who can't solder, you usually
> have National Instruments to thank.
> -- 
> Josh Myer 650.248.3796
>  josh at joshisanerd.com
> 
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