Hexing the technical interview meets DALL·E

There is a hilarious quote from Aphyr in Hexing the technical interview:

Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce
Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life
Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours:
Never read Hacker News

I fed it into DALL·E and it gave me this awesomeness:

Visitor Alarm | Project 9/20 | Maxitronix 20in1 | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I do the ninth Maxitronix 20in1 Electronic Project Lab project: Visitor Alarm.



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Electronics Project #6: Piezoelectric Buzzer Volume Control | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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Silly Job Title: Amp Alchemist

In this video I put a 2k potentiometer in series with a piezoelectric buzzer to act as a volume control.

The project I mention in the beginning of this video is the Educational 555 Board from PCBWay which we will build and test soon.

The video I make the hook clip test probes in is this one: Electronics Project: Hook Clip Test Probes to DuPont Jumpers | In The Lab With Jay Jay.

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Interlude #5: Learning LTspice Part 2 | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I continue to make my first LTspice circuit simulation. I am running this software under Wine on KDE Plasma running on Debian 12 bookworm.

I got some help with this simulation over on the EEVblog forum: Help with modeling multivibrators in LTspice.

There are some important errata concerning the above over on the EEVblog:

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