Stock Electronic Image FAILS

[fzabkar]

ISTM that this prototype SSD has been overvolted. Q2 and U18 near the SATA power connector look like they may have been cooked. IIUC, this board was demonstrated at Computex 2017. :-)

Maxiotek MX8215 DRAMless Controller Empowers 3D NAND:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/maxiotek-mk8215-mk8115-3d-nand,34609.html

At Computex 2017, Maxiotek displayed a working sample of the upcoming MX8215 DRAMless controller designed to enable 3D NAND in low-cost products.

[ledtester]

This meter functions even when OFF.

The leading zero also looks like it was photoshopped in - the segments appear smaller.

(At first I thought the leading zero was anomalous but then I found out you can get that reading on the 200V setting.)

[TimFox]

And the photoshopped 9 V battery in the scene suffers from "negative flip".

[Kim Christensen]

Battery also looks like they pulled it out of the recycle bin 


 

[VK3DRB]

I was just wandering around aliexpress, and found this gem.Note the "fashion design" at the end.

It is a fashion accessory for nerds, dags and geeks. Impress the woman on your first date, when you are 50 years old .
It reminds me, I had a friend from uni way back who used to wear a flashing LED circuit with a 9V battery in his shirt pocket when he went out in public because he thought it would attract the chicks. He was wrong.

[tszaboo]

Texas instruments:
"Hey ladies, check out this PCB probing"

[AVGresponding]

With only 1 wire attached? What's he testing, how much static charge he's just dumped into the board he's holding?

[rhodges]

Maybe he is wearing a wireless ground strap.

[mendip_discovery]

Maybe he is wearing a wireless ground strap.

The way the image was originally shown it wasn't clear that Steve Schnier was doing anything wrong.
https://news.ti.com/blog/2023/06/13/the-symphony-precision-harmonizing-power-and-signal-integrity-with-low-noise-technology

I thought the lab I was at the other week was messy. This seems to be a trend with EE types.

[amyk]

Those expressions...

"Everyone hold the right tongue angle!"

[.RC.]

With only 1 wire attached? What's he testing,

Obviously Wigl powered.

[tszaboo]

With only 1 wire attached? What's he testing, how much static charge he's just dumped into the board he's holding?

I was more amused by the other hook up wire just connected to the front of what looks like an oscilloscope.

[AndyBeez]

He's pointing at stuff. An essential skill he will need if he is going to be a manager later on in life  ^{Hmmm Powerpoint}

Guys, you really should feel sorry for these Gen Zed kids who are about to embark on their careers in the EE industry. For the one's who don't end up back at their university doing post graduate research into net-zero-free-energy, the rest will be spending the next few decades dead ended into average jobs supporting all of the crap equipment that we designed decades ago.

[McBryce]

He's pointing at stuff. An essential skill he will need if he is going to be a manager later on in life  ^{Hmmm Powerpoint}

Guys, you really should feel sorry for these Gen Zed kids who are about to embark on their careers in the EE industry. For the one's who don't end up back at their university doing post graduate research into net-zero-free-energy, the rest will be spending the next few decades dead ended into average jobs supporting all of the crap equipment that we designed decades ago.

A real manager would delegate the job of pointing to someone else and declare it as "empowering" his employees.

McBryce.

[ebastler]

[...] the rest will be spending the next few decades dead ended into average jobs supporting all of the crap equipment that we designed decades ago.

Is that because everything has now been invented, so nothing new will be developed over the next few decades? 

[TimFox]

[...] the rest will be spending the next few decades dead ended into average jobs supporting all of the crap equipment that we designed decades ago.

Is that because everything has now been invented, so nothing new will be developed over the next few decades? 

I doubt that AI will develop any truly novel hardware over the next few decades, although it might be a useful tool in the hands of a creative inventor.

[Ian.M]

We (1st world) offshored most production and a lot of development a generation or so ago, and its fairly obvious that that group are the wrong ethnicity to be likely to be natives of where the work went, so to have any chance of a  decent career in what remains, they'll need to be the best of the best, and the rest will be relegated to helpdesk and field support hell.

[Bud]

I doubt that AI will develop any truly novel hardware over the next few decades, although it might be a useful tool in the hands of a creative inventor.

The hardware does not need to be perfect, just mediocre, and people will buy. I'd think it may be difficult to design things in a worse manner than what is supplied from China these days. Pretty sure AI can do better.

[tszaboo]

Maybe he is wearing a wireless ground strap.

The way the image was originally shown it wasn't clear that Steve Schnier was doing anything wrong.

Wait, so he is actually a TI employee who is an engineer?
Really then, what went wrong with this picture....

[AndyBeez]

Welcome Papierz.

I just love the smell of burning mobos in the morning. This dude could also take a vape break with his nicotine cloud machine without having to leave his workshop. Genius

[bsfeechannel]

What exactly is the "de" sound?

[PlainName]

'do' and 'mi' two-tone?

[McBryce]

What exactly is the "de" sound?

Don't they pull the cold air from the back (the side that's completely covered by the floor in that picture)?

McBryce.

[Fungus]

What exactly is the "de" sound?

I dunno but normally if you stand them on the base like that you restrict the air flow and make them catch fire.

[McBryce]

What exactly is the "de" sound?

I dunno but normally if you stand them on the base like that you restrict the air flow and make them catch fire.

That'll explain the "de" sound then, it's the fire brigade siren as they pull up outside. De-da-de-da! 

McBryce.