[Noisebridge-discuss] Art of Electronics [Book]

[Michael Shiloh]

That's a great story. Thanks for sharing.

On 08/22/2010 03:52 PM, jim wrote:
>
>     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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