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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #125 on: October 20, 2016, 06:50:00 am »
So, the process to get some ?  :-//
In reply #2 a bit more than 2 years ago I expressed an interest for 5.  :=\

And I'm still none the wiser as to how to source them direct from Dave.

So we have this link of the main EEVblog page:
https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/

Embedded there is this one:
http://www.eevblog.com/2013/12/31/traps-for-even-simple-successful-crowd-funded-projects/


Any updates you can share with us?

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #126 on: October 20, 2016, 09:16:17 am »
Jaycar is probably getting someone to reverse engineer it now.
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #127 on: October 20, 2016, 09:18:30 am »
Other stuff to add/remove?



Maybe do away with the voltage spacing table and add pads for more SMD dimensions?
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #128 on: October 20, 2016, 09:20:18 am »
Jaycar is probably getting someone to reverse engineer it now.
Won't be hard, the files are here:
https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/
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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #129 on: October 20, 2016, 09:23:42 am »
Jaycar is probably getting someone to reverse engineer it now.
Won't be hard, the files are here:
https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/
IDK they might struggle with the flux capacitor.
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #130 on: October 20, 2016, 09:47:47 am »
Jaycar is probably getting someone to reverse engineer it now.

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #131 on: October 20, 2016, 09:51:46 am »
I'm thinking of some schematic symbols?
Maybe a Raspberry Pi and Arduino pinout  ;D
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #132 on: October 20, 2016, 09:54:10 am »
How about some of the formulas/constants as per vintage HP mug?
Whoah! Watch where that landed we might need it later.
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #133 on: October 20, 2016, 10:59:58 am »
And I'm still none the wiser as to how to source them direct from Dave.

If you could buy one then you'd know about it.
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #134 on: October 20, 2016, 11:09:49 am »
You might want to take a look at what the Germans have been doing at mikrocontroller.net:
https://github.com/maugsburger/eeruler
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #135 on: October 20, 2016, 01:42:36 pm »
The things on the German ruler, and to some extent Dave's, would be better served printed single sided on acetate (or a more modern equivalent).  Easier to lay the footprints over the top of a PCB to see what size they are.  Maybe the ultimate version would have several, pinned together at one end like a set of feeler gauges.  That would free up more area to include all the good ideas that everyone has come up with.  And to do things like showing voltage spacings physically, so you could put the ruler over a board and see directly what voltages were supportable.

It would help in resolving a fundamental conflict with this ruler, which is trying to be two things - a measuring device and a pocket reference.
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #136 on: October 21, 2016, 01:19:55 pm »
Other stuff to add/remove?

Wavelength in vacuum along the ruler. On the other hand on a 20cm ruler the first tick would be at 1.5GHz. I know what you need: a longer ruler ;-) Anyways, when it comes to tables (which consume a lot of space unfortunately), frequency and time vs wavelength would be nice.

Tables are easy to print on paper or to view on a monitor. I think most practical for such a ruler are different pad sizes, distances, foot prints, Rack Unit heigts, drill sizes for bolts and clearance for nuts, ... that sort of thing.

Or embed a button cell and some different color LEDs with known wavelengths. :scared:
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #137 on: October 21, 2016, 01:30:02 pm »
Tables are easy to print on paper or to view on a monitor. I think most practical for such a ruler are different pad sizes, distances, foot prints

I don't understand PCB rules covered in PCB footprints, what real use are they?
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #138 on: October 21, 2016, 07:11:22 pm »
Tables are easy to print on paper or to view on a monitor. I think most practical for such a ruler are different pad sizes, distances, foot prints

I don't understand PCB rules covered in PCB footprints, what real use are they?

  To have a reference of the real world scale after being working on a scaleless IDE in a monitor or digital datasheet, etc. At least that's for me. I check every once in a while to a real part to realize the actual scale I'm working on.

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #139 on: October 22, 2016, 01:36:59 am »
I don't understand PCB rules covered in PCB footprints, what real use are they?

I have the ADAfruit  ruler and it has a good assortment of footprints. It is somewhat useful when etching your own boards at home to have a professional made board to compare with. The thing I use the most are the hole table/ wire gauge and your existing ruler is  more comprehensive in that regard. Selfishly I would ask you not to include footprints as I already have the Adafruit for that. I do want to order something close to your last ruler so get busy making them! (please!) vox populi has spoken!
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #140 on: February 06, 2017, 08:19:19 am »
Dave, I'm currently studing electronics and I suggested to my teacher to give one of your uRuler 3 to each student at the end of first year, he thought it was a great idea and asked how much would 150pcs cost?

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #141 on: February 06, 2017, 10:33:03 am »
I'm pretty close to finishing the new version...
 
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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #142 on: February 06, 2017, 01:43:22 pm »
No teaser?

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #143 on: February 23, 2017, 10:20:48 am »
Any update on the design?
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #144 on: April 13, 2017, 06:19:03 pm »
Anything yet?
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #145 on: April 14, 2017, 06:51:56 am »
I'm pretty close to finishing the new version...

 :popcorn: ???
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #146 on: June 02, 2017, 08:38:08 pm »
Following this post and looking forward to the new one!  Ready to buy...
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #147 on: June 02, 2017, 11:39:10 pm »
Oh, yeah, the uRuler...  ;D
 

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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #148 on: June 02, 2017, 11:56:13 pm »
.... and uPhone is new thing for a social peoples. ;D I had to ..sry.

Not to mock uRuler, but the i-age.
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Re: New uRuler
« Reply #149 on: June 04, 2017, 09:44:16 am »
I want one, especially if it is blue.


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