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nchernyy
Aug 13, 2004

RAWR
Great thread and a great new forum!

clredwolf posted:

This is what the industry likes to call a 'gently caress up'. Thanks to that little error some NASA drone just crashed into the side of Pluto unexpectedly. Should be fixed now.

I think the confusion comes from defining electrical current before the discovery of the electron. People knew that there was charge flowing, they just didn't know it was made up of discrete particles that were negative.

As for learning the basics, see Troubleshooting Analog Circuits by Bob Pease (http://books.google.com/books?id=3kY4-HYLqh0C) for the passives (and for the breadboard picture from clredwolf) and the Handbook of Operational Amplifier Applications from TI (http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/sboa092a/sboa092a.pdf) for active, analog devices.

I am a graduate student doing some mixed signal design and will be happy to answer questions.

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