Message from @shadowedROM
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So you can plug in a single test point and test mostly everything you care about
My boss would go "Are you 100% sure, 200% sure, etc."
jtag?
Until you crack and go "uh"
"fuck off then"
apprentice life
jtag is a thing sure for running incircuit tests but you may want for stuff for application specific passive components
We had a bad "cable" once kill months of testing
sheeit
I don't know why I can't get cool working with electronics.
But it was a huge mil rs422 thing
Get started with digital logic on arduino
Did you get castrated by your boss afterwards
who says
"YOU ASSUMED THE CABLE WORKED"
No
Because the whole team fucked up
Our tests and firmware crashed spectacularly because of assumptions about the underlying hardware
what happened after the fuckup?
The hardware guys screwed up wiring (though, to their credit, Better to fail in the lab than thousands of feet in the air)
Company ate the cost of the delays
what were you guys building?
Airplane stuff
I figured
Yeah, better be careful with that stuff.
super secret stuff
better be careful with anything in general but welp. :^)
So my point is that pure software dudes generally have less stress and more free time on their hands during the work day
So they could lurk on the chans and /g/
The hardware guys do this stuff on the weekends for fun maybe
but hardware is much more fun
So they're more often than not on something with better signal to noise ratio
Working on software was really easy compared to my coleagues when I was an intern.
You should definitely get into electronics as a hobby
But I wouldn't necessarily recommend it as a job; maybe high level design or really cool stuff like uC design at intel
I remember one intern who didn't stopped fucking up one day long, a shitload of components burned. It really wasn't his day.
or even Analog Devices
I'd love to work at AD
What's up with that ?
they're such a proficient and comfy corporation that doesn't give a fuck about shareholders