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)

We just got delayed

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

How did he burn stuff

Overvolted the board?

I have no idea, I just saw a load of burned components.

That sucks but that's why you have plenty of spares, unless that was some expensive on-off prototype

>hardware for fun

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