On 5/21/21 10:21 AM, Scott McDonnell wrote:
Brian,
I wanted to say thank you for doing this.
Scott McDonnell
Low hanging fruit, something fun to do that's just hard enough to be
satisfying vs say watching tv. ;)
I was talking to Shelby from TechTangents about a WP-2 card I sent him
and I was saying how much I love playing with KiCAD, and he said
something interesting about that. He said a few different people have
told him that routing pcb layouts is soothing.
Soothing? ok yeah maybe. It's weird how it can definitely be a nice
challenging puzzle, but at the same time it can be kind of mindless
where you can just plod along making something a little better, a little
better, a little better, and each time you figure out some little
optimization it's a little reward feeling, but there is really no
anti-reward stress from failing to. Almost anything you do will be ok
and that's already a success no matter what. Beyond that is just getting
artful or satisfying your sense of order and neatness etc.
It may in fact be some kind of mental trap, the scientifically
engineered most effective time suck for engineery types that thought
they were too smart to fall for Farmville.
This thing was openscad not kicad but really all the same applies.
Maybe what's going on is, tools like kicad, freecad, openscad, let alone
the commercial stuff, are so developed by now that they do all the
scut-work, and you the user are spending more time doing just the
creative/design part.
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bkw
