For me, it's one of those small A3-ish sized whiteboards intended for household use along with a set of Sharpie-sized fine point markers. Great for quick sketching or jotting down ideas, notes, values, dimensions etc and anything needing "saving" gets snapped with the phone camera.
Well, for my part, it's just slightly annoying enough to draw a schematic and post it somewhere, than to use a verbal description. Which inevitably fails as I forget how poorly understood such descriptions are...
Ditto, if I don't do it, it's usually out of lazyness! And yes that sometimes ends up failing, as a clear schematic is often easier to understand for anyone else than ourselves than a written description.
I have been using a mechanical pencil on paper for drawing schematics, but as of last year, I got a tablet with pen input and have been using it for schematic drawing. Working directly in digital makes it trivial to back up.
... I also think it very thoughless towards members who are not first language english not add graphics. ...
While I'm at it. Guys stop embarasing yourselves by all piling in when you think its post from a female- full on dinosaur behaviour there.
While I'm at it. Guys stop embarasing yourselves by all piling in when you think its post from a female- full on dinosaur behaviour there.Which one (member or post) are you referring to as from a female?
I can't tell from the poster names, and I know both males and females named Terry. I guess some could be either; I don't care. Same for the other poster names.
I've tried that but I'm no good with this setup. Maybe I haven't given it enough time, or maybe I haven't tried the right tablet. But what I get really looks terrible compared to what I can do with a real pen and paper. So I certainly don't bother.
I've tried that but I'm no good with this setup. Maybe I haven't given it enough time, or maybe I haven't tried the right tablet. But what I get really looks terrible compared to what I can do with a real pen and paper. So I certainly don't bother.What tablet is it? I'm using a Galaxy Tab S7. I got it instead of the much cheaper Galaxy Tab S6 Lite largely because the reviews say that the better pen input on the S7 is worth it. It's also more "futureproof" with the better specs and supports some extra features like HDMI over USB-C.
I would say the biggest advice with any pen tablet is to make use of the things that paper can't do, namely zooming into the area being worked on and one tap undo if something doesn't turn out well.
Professionally though, (I'm a big fan of pen and paper sketches, but), it's such a PITA to have a mixed pen-paper, Matlab, Excel, Word and EDA workflow, when everything needs to be documented and controlled etc. I don't like the idea that paper is dying out, but as natural as scribbling a diagram on a piece of paper is to (most?) engineers and is the more pure-thinking (about electronics, not trying to tame the CAD package) approach... is the same true for those who's first circuit diagrams were drawn in CAD?
Greenhorns start the simulator on the smartphone right away instead. It results in lousy designs, but who cares? It can be posted on Facebook!!!. YEEAAHH!
While I'm at it. Guys stop embarasing yourselves by all piling in when you think its post from a female- full on dinosaur behaviour there.Which one (member or post) are you referring to as from a female?
I can't tell from the poster names, and I know both males and females named Terry. I guess some could be either; I don't care. Same for the other poster names.I assume it's in reference to the "best oscilloscope for a woman" thread, which, a lot of replies have that kind of smell to them...
Immediate correction is the only meaningful solution, you can't just speak generally and expect it to have any effect.
Whats going on people? So few people include a diagram or schematic in their post.
Great thanks to those who do.
You cant do CAD or photoshop or any real work if you're stuck with a phone. But you can draw out your idea or problem on anything and take a photo to illustrate your post:
A post it note (TM) To which Dave claims no patent rights. Clay tablets, wet sand before the turn of the tide, charcoal on the cave wall, a tatoo, bog roll even?
Isnt drawing is an prerequisite skill for any serious endevour.
Tell me why this is untrue. Again I'm asking this!
The first 100000 responders can have a hand knitted 2THz oscillosope schematic. Delivered one stitch at a time via chatting.