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  • Partial rebuttal. If you increase the power draw, you need more pins dedicated to power and ground. Without reducing functions, this needs a different footprint. They have had issues with some CPUs in the past. bugs in complex systems are basically unavoidable, its just in hardware you can’t just issue a software patch to fix it 100% with no negative effects.

    Nvidia has been anti-competitive as long as I can remember. They put out dev tools that basically break games on AMD. That’s just their operating model. I don’t know that that’s enshittifying as it often makes their own product better, its just being an anti-competitive ass.

    I can’t comment too much to your other points. I think some of the memory was down to the memory chip makers, not the product makers, but I can’t back that up.



  • RF only has 2 components, Phase (frequency) and its amplitude. For Analog FM radio, you have a center frequency you tune to. The variance from the center frequency (phase) is the amplitude of the carried signal. For digital signals, you will have specified offsets from the center that represent specific binary codes.

    Edit: as others have said, the tuning and demodulating are 2 different steps. Step 1 tune, When you tune you take the signal centered at the carrier, what the dial on your radio says, and recenter it at 0. Step 1 is the same for pretty much everything RF. The output is “base-band”. You aren’t going in and out of tune because for each center frequency, there will be an agreed variance (band width) allowed for the channel. The tuner captures this entire range and this is what is then demodulated in step 2.


  • Not my area of expertise, but these are my thoughts on the subject.

    If you want mechanical clips on the connector assembly itself, you are probably going to want to stay away from mezzanine or back plane connectors. I usually associate these larger mechanical standards where the card itself has the mechanical fastening with screws, either to a chassis (backplane) or to the other board (mezzanine). You’ll probably find more luck with edge connectors, but that looks like another beast.

    You also need to make sure you use something designed for multiple cycles if you plan on swapping frequently.

    If I was looking for something I would just brows samtech, molex, or just digikey and filter until I find something that suites my needs.

    For hot swap, you also have to make sure you have something that is designed for that, usually that means some longer pins on ground to make sure you’re not having any surges on data lines.



  • I’ll start off with your questions are a outside of what I know well. In general to do stuff with electronics, you don’t need to know the physics behind it, but the equations that pop out. Mainly V=IR, Almost everything goes back to that. Behind the scenes are lots and lots and lots of differential equations. Alpha Pheonix has a few good visualizations for resistance. He has a water based demo to visualize voltage and resistance, and a maze demo showing how electricity “finds” the path of least resistance. ElectroBoom probably won’t teach you too much, but can show some interesting things you can do. EEVblog has some good lectures. For specific applications Digikey and Texas Instruments have some basics, and there are many lectures online available.

    I think the questions you asked are a little more on the physics side than the electrical side, and the specifics I think of as a dark art that comes with experience. In general most capacitors you see are blocking DC on an AC circuit, coupling capacitors that are smoothing the power circuit, or capacitors to control/tune something specific. Those control values would be given in a datasheet. Resistors are often going to be current limiting, voltage dividing, or “pulling” a high impedance signal. To design something you often just need the rule of thumb, and not necessarily a deep understanding of “why”.


  • I guess my question to you would be what are your goals? Do you have a project in mind? Do you have a technology, Analog, RF, MCU, FPGA, embedded design? I tend to learn a new thing better when I have an end goal or project to work towards. Depending on where your starting from, a pi might be a good place to start too. You still have most of the I/O and busses of an Arduino, but you can program everything in python, and you have the resources of a full OS too.