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Don't you just hate it when...
- 09-29-2005
Tim Polmear posted on September 29, 2005, 12:38 pm
... you design and build a robot control board and when you finally
figure out why the damn thing won't work it means you have to go and
build it all over again, but this time with those pullup resistors you
forgot to include, or the external MCU crystal you thought you'd get
away without using because the PIC chip you've employed just isn't
quite stable enough without it and the worse thing is you've got
another couple of boards sitting in the shed with exactly the same
problems because you thought you'd save a bit of ammonium persulphate
and etch a few of the boards on the gamble that you'd actually got the
design perfect the first time, but didn't?
Well I do.
On the upside it's amazing what a bit of supa glue, the missing
components and some flying leads can achieve.
figure out why the damn thing won't work it means you have to go and
build it all over again, but this time with those pullup resistors you
forgot to include, or the external MCU crystal you thought you'd get
away without using because the PIC chip you've employed just isn't
quite stable enough without it and the worse thing is you've got
another couple of boards sitting in the shed with exactly the same
problems because you thought you'd save a bit of ammonium persulphate
and etch a few of the boards on the gamble that you'd actually got the
design perfect the first time, but didn't?
Well I do.
On the upside it's amazing what a bit of supa glue, the missing
components and some flying leads can achieve.
Sergio Masci posted on
Re: Don't you just hate it when...
yeh, modern art... components glued to fingers :-)
Regards
Sergio Masci
http://www.xcprod.com/titan/XCSB - optimising PIC compiler
FREE for personal non-commercial use
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joecoin posted on
Re: Don't you just hate it when...
I'd be happy to get a component glued to my fingers, all I ever do is
glue the fingers together.
Joe
Randy M. Dumse posted on
Re: Don't you just hate it when...
My favorite bromide of all time:
Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want.
I feel very experienced.
Being experienced means eventually you often get it right on the first
pass, and if you don't, you are already commited to the process, and
know how many more times you probably have to do it before you really do
get it right. So the first step is not disappointing if it is not the
last step. And if it should happen to be, thank your experience.
I had a Navy chaplin say something that profoundly changed my life's
philosophy. He said,
Expect the worst. Be pleasantly surprized when things go right.
--
Randy M. Dumse
www.newmicros.com
Caution: Objects in mirror are more confused than they appear.
Sir Charles W. Shults III posted on
Re: Don't you just hate it when...
This is exactly right. Years ago at a large aerospace company, a woman
who worked there and was very Christian came to me one day and said " you
have such a nice way of dealing with people. What is your philosophy?"
She was trying to ask (without asking) if I was also a Christian. I
said "Well, it's simple. Expect the worst and hope for the best." She got
this horrified look and said "oh, that's an awful way of looking at things!"
I guess it's all in the outlook.
Cheers!
Sir Charles W. Shults III, K. B. B.
Xenotech Research
321-206-1840
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