– What chances do I have of succeeding in soldering this SMD LED by hand?
– 5050.
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A good one to LEAD off.
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Probably more like 60/40.
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Very old electronics joke:
What did the plate load resistor say to the 6AU6?
...
You burn me up!
To anyone born since 1980:
6AU6 is a reference to a thing called a "Tuuuube". Say it with me now: "T, T Tu, Tuu, TUUUBE!" Think if it as a giant glass transistor with a night light and heater to keep it warm.
Plate load Resistor is a component that often got overcurrent and LITERALLY flamed out when said 6AU6 failed.
In 1940 this was a real thigh slapper!
You know (or actually you DON'T know) that I'm 64 and have been in electronics since I was in ... umm ... 4th grade? and I got my first crystal radio set. It was magic, hearing voices out of the air with just some wire on a toilet paper roll, a crystal (germanium diode - 1N34 IIRC, it's been a LONG time) and an earpiece, Now Arduino has shrunk rack sized PLC's into an under $20 credit card sized device with just 1 chip doing things that simply couldn't have been done before. Amazing and still as much fun as that first crystal set!.
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Just dropped in to see that everyone's conducting themself properly.
If not, you're grounded.
I went car shopping the other day.
I looked at a Voltswagen.
The price was shockingly high.
It'll be hard to afford but if I cut out my lattes, I conduit.
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I went shopping for a new car yesterday too, but all the current models would overload my bank balance.
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Can't you charge it?
RCA, Philips, GE, AWA etc etc
While we are at it.
SOLDER not SODDDDDER..
A SOD is a clump of earth..
And Aluminium.. oohh forget it....
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he-he-he-he
'e left 'is charger at 'ohm, which 'amperes 'is options somewatt, but I'm surprised that 'e couldn't afFord any of them.
Pivotal moment in electronics was when idea for solid state happened like this:
A scientist had been working on trying to miniaturize vacuum VALVES and had gotten the size down but not the power (Google "acorn tube").
Despondent with failure he went to the railroad station with the intention of killing himself by jumping in front of a moving train. As he was steeling himself to end it all, he espied a group of nuns, being herded by the mother superior, saying "All aboard the train, sisters.", and the solution came to him!
Trains? I thought nuns traveled in pears.
Yeah, but they don't make a habit of it!
Worst pun yet, bar nun.
If Kirchhoff had a second law, why is his first law called his current law?
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A programmer is asked by their spouse, "Love, could you go to the market and buy a gallon of milk? If they have eggs, could you buy a dozen?" The programmer returns from the market with a dozen gallons of milk. They had eggs.
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A man walks into a bar and asks for 1.0 rootBeer. The bar tender replies, "One rootBeer float coming up."
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Why did the diode kiss the capacitor?
He couldn't resistor.
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