On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 11:45 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote: > Steven Michalske wrote: > > >> Worked almost right away. Note red wire and missing pullup. Keeps me > >> humble. > > > > Green wires are less humbling, i suggest them. > > I look at design efforts like golf. Low scores are better, but nobody > plays a round with 18 holes-in-one in a row. > > My most humbling: back in the 1980's I wrote an ECO with about 15 lifted > pins and 50 or so red wires, a chip glued onto the board "dead bug > style", plus a piece of coax (!). (Didn't catch *that* case in > simulation....) This on a board with about 180 TTL packages.
I just got a board back which the assembler rather keenly produced from draft files I'd sent during initial discussions. Clearly labelled next to one part with silk-screen on the board "BUG: CAPACITOR SILK +/- SWAPPED" (discovered during in-house prototyping, but I'd not got around to fixing it when I sent the draft files). They stuffed the capacitor according to the silk (wrong), and didn't notice / think to check with me what this strange silk-screen text was about! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user