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Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 7:08 PM UTC

jaysonelliot wrote: post #10

pppp wrote: post #5

Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 as did eevBlog: https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/

Looks like that Adafruit ruler is a branded version of the PCB rulers that are all over eBay. They all have the same design with the phrase "one PCB to RULER them all" on the back.

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Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by tesseract » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 7:14 PM UTC

jaysonelliot wrote: post #10

pppp wrote: post #5

Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 as did eevBlog: https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/

Looks like that Adafruit ruler is a branded version of the PCB rulers that are all over eBay. They all have the same design with the phrase "one PCB to RULER them all" on the back.

The Adafruit ruler is open source (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-PCB-Ruler) - I suspect the eBay ones are clones of it.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by vjeux » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 7:19 PM UTC

If you are hosted by an employee, they are available for sale to visitors. It's super awesome indeed and bought one.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by bluedino » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

jquast wrote: post #7

We have something similar these all over the office, they come free w/large orders from digikey and mouser I think https://www.mouser.com/images/adi-engineering-discovery-pcbr... https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/pcb-ruler-12inc...

People are always swiping the digikey ones from our engineers.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by joezydeco » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 7:48 PM UTC

jquast wrote: post #7

We have something similar these all over the office, they come free w/large orders from digikey and mouser I think https://www.mouser.com/images/adi-engineering-discovery-pcbr... https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/pcb-ruler-12inc...

DigiKey. Got a handful of them.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by contingencies » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 7:53 PM UTC

In our office we taped the free Ikea roll-up fabric rulers to desks for quick measuring.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by dawnerd » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

rzzzt wrote: post #8

pppp wrote: post #5

Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 as did eevBlog: https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/

AvE also has one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-the...

Also has another variation https://www.etsy.com/listing/519921651/welders-ruler?ref=sho...

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by ALX9 » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 8:09 PM UTC

These rulers are pretty popular as goodies Nvidia hands out at career fairs (along with socks). I see these every semester at the CMU job fair.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by nugi » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

rzzzt wrote: post #8

pppp wrote: post #5

Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 as did eevBlog: https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/

AvE also has one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-the...

I immediately thought of this one. Perhaps more useful to the 99% of us who dont work with SMD. I am sure the 'detector' would provide amusement to a few people.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Post by masklinn » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 8:43 PM UTC

Cixelyn wrote: post #4

534b44a wrote: post #2

Cheap PCB rulers can be found on ebay. I had one bought for my professor as a bribery/flattery present when I was at the university.

The Nvidia one looks quite a bit nicer than your average eBay ruler though... full 12", two color silkscreen, ENIG finish, and some crazy tiny-pitch BGA footprints. The component layout is also not haphazard like most of the other rulers I've seen; it's much more of a work of art. I definitely want one.

And of courses it uses actual nvidia parts which is convenient for nvidia engineers.