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madires:

--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on July 19, 2022, 08:06:10 am ---When I was in my teenage years, deciding upon a career path, it was the age of the 'proper' home computer - endlessly adaptable, expandable, upgradable and modifiable by anyone with a soldering iron and the will to do something cool. My first non-trivial project was a device to record and play digital (sampled) audio on a BBC micro; it taught me about address and data buses, multiplexing, decoding, signal integrity, power supplies, device drivers, interrupt handling, and the sheer joy of showing off something I'd created from scratch.

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It's not gone! Today's entry point is an Arduino, RasPi or any other similar platform. They are the current equivalent of yesteryear's 8-bit home computer.
xrunner:

--- Quote from: snarkysparky on July 19, 2022, 12:27:05 am ---Analog electronics is relegated to smaller and smaller portions of the hardware by pin count so to speak.  After digitization the math and software guys do the rest.   

Learn the math and software!!!

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That's the way ham transceivers are going. All SDR (software defined radio). Except for a few parts at the front end such as an RF amp or attenuator and band filters, and the final PA and filtering, the whole thing is a computer / processor. No more repairing of that part for most hams. It's all programming and math filtering once the RF is digitized. A black box.
PKTKS:

--- Quote from: madires on July 19, 2022, 10:53:19 am ---
--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on July 19, 2022, 08:06:10 am ---When I was in my teenage years, deciding upon a career path, it was the age of the 'proper' home computer - endlessly adaptable, expandable, upgradable and modifiable by anyone with a soldering iron and the will to do something cool. My first non-trivial project was a device to record and play digital (sampled) audio on a BBC micro; it taught me about address and data buses, multiplexing, decoding, signal integrity, power supplies, device drivers, interrupt handling, and the sheer joy of showing off something I'd created from scratch.

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It's not gone! Today's entry point is an Arduino, RasPi or any other similar platform. They are the current equivalent of yesteryear's 8-bit home computer.

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Just google for  China robotics park projections...

They will more than double their automated park in next decade...

Not by chance they already invested in an army of competent engineers that are not trainee idiots pledging for stupid positions..

Next decades will speak per si with Chinese industry just smashing the pathetic western markets..

Paul


and BTW   use the chance to google their military grade asset growth in robotics cybernetics and related warfare...   western  corporations of profiteers is about to be slammed
abquke:
I debate off and on about not renewing my subscription to IEEE Spectrum because more often than not it's AI sales pitch gobblygook.

EEs are like fabs in that it takes a lot of time from starting construction to productive output. Not favorable in a bubble-to-bubble economy.
Gribo:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on July 19, 2022, 09:33:10 am ---
--- Quote from: Circlotron on July 18, 2022, 10:31:03 pm ---At least we have people in universities doing Gender Studies.
They will save us all.

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Not forgetting the most popular science subject studied in UK universities; sport science.

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I thought it was comparative anatomy...
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