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How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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I'm pretty sure more than 1% of electrical engineers have worked with SMD - they're tough to avoid these days, unless you are strictly doing microelectronics, or a power engineer bolting things together with bus bars.

We are not all electrical engineers.

You won't even be a hobbyist for much longer, unless you make your peace with SMD.

Relax. It's fun. Assimilate.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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I like them, although the GFX USB drive[1] is even neater (in my opinion). That said I've got a minor collection of PCB rulers, one from Adafruit that they just threw in with my order one time, one from Digikey from Makerfaire, one from Digilent, and one from nVidia. One that I would like to get is the one that does various things[2] (its an active circuit), and I mocked up one with an e-paper 'edge' where you could…

Great April Fool's prank.

... Right?

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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

Given how prevelent these rulers are in the industry, it seems a little disingenuous for the article to make it sound like it was dreamed up from scratch. More like “this type of ruler is a good idea, we should have one of our own”.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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Thanks for sharing, I was wondering if others existed Also, lol, eevBlog: > A handy 7″ PCB ruler, don’t settle for an average 6 incher!

Dave Jones is a riot, his videos are equally hilarious and informative. If you're interested at all in modern electronics I highly recommend giving them a watch.

I stumbled across his videos about a month ago and couldn't stop watching. Great stuff!

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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I like them, although the GFX USB drive[1] is even neater (in my opinion). That said I've got a minor collection of PCB rulers, one from Adafruit that they just threw in with my order one time, one from Digikey from Makerfaire, one from Digilent, and one from nVidia. One that I would like to get is the one that does various things[2] (its an active circuit), and I mocked up one with an e-paper 'edge' where you could…

> https://www.geforce.com/gtx-g-assist

Mozilla Firefox: Content Encoding Error. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Google Chrome: This site can’t be reached. ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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They're popular enough they go out of stock in the employee store pretty often; I had to wait a month to get one for buddy.

It's pretty neat even if it basically just sits on my desk. I think I've used it more times as a square edge than as a ruler.

Re: How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up

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I like them, although the GFX USB drive[1] is even neater (in my opinion). That said I've got a minor collection of PCB rulers, one from Adafruit that they just threw in with my order one time, one from Digikey from Makerfaire, one from Digilent, and one from nVidia. One that I would like to get is the one that does various things[2] (its an active circuit), and I mocked up one with an e-paper 'edge' where you could…

> https://www.geforce.com/gtx-g-assist Mozilla Firefox: Content Encoding Error. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Google Chrome: This site can’t be reached. ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED.

Hah, I guess the traffic borked it. Here was some coverage from PC Gamer on it: http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-geforce-gtx-usb-drive-is-real...
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