Path: ...!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 19:43:54 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: nice board Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 12:43:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 X-Trace: sv3-bz2USuGOvGlUDDFt0vDYgQBGonAbVyW3nrb27WfWyl9P2y9LmM02FXglI4eFugfjrqqv/lIfa6CLoPO!d7o1RQDNdOZSNzK+BTzhYRTZ+qQJ38GjZyqjEnQQ1P0UEzEPEWtBKudqubYFNjXGopoIaVmZYfFe!UnvgVA== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3580 On Sat, 25 May 2024 11:10:19 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:57:35 -0700, john larkin wrote: > >>This one >>https://www.vecteezy.com/photo/33115990-electronic-circuity-intricately-designed-on-circuit-boards-driving-technological-innovations-ai-generated >>looks like the pilgrimage to Mecca. > >You're right. It does look like the Kaaba: > >It works something like a compass, where Muslim worshipers face in the >direction of the Mecca. That's probably functional if there was only >one Kaaba, but global proliferation of similar attractors might result >in some confusion. I had a sample of that in early college (about >1965) when the national anthem was played over the public address >system every morning before the start of classes. We were expected to >face the flag, which was rather awkward if we were inside a building >with no flags in sight. I would usually end up facing a blank wall or >a urinal. > >>>My vote for the winner is this AI photo, where all the leads are >>>shorted together: >>> >> >>Cool. These things are always artistically blurred, as if a bad >>photographer had shot a real photo. >> >>Even PCB shops use absurd stock photos of "their" boards. > >There's a little more behind image defects and artifacts in >advertising photography. I wrote something about it in RBT >(rec.bicycling.tech) where an obvious PhotoShoped image included >mistakes intended to extend the time that a reader inspects the image >trying to determine why the image looks wrong. > > > >>I wish my boards had traces that glow. > >You can probably see traces glow in your FLIR camera. I don't own an >IR camera (yet) so I use liquid crystal sheets. > We recently bought a few nice thermal imagers with clip-on close-up lenses, about $700 total. I could post the details next week, if anyone is interested.