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@Circuitfantasist About my "philosophical" way of "thinking" - First off, your use of these words is vague. (10) I have lost count of the points:) So let me start with 10. I always try to avoid using words like "philosophical", "logical", "reasoning", because they are vague in meaning. Instead, I usually use words like how I "design" this circuit, how I "implement" this circuit. Actually I prefer to use how I "do" it. So I am sort of "Nike Just Do It". So I sometimes say I am a "Nike Engineer/Guy"
Actually I try to avoid to use the word "Engineer", because this word is also vague. I am an ex-MIEEE, ex-MBCS, ex-CEng, because I am a slash freelancer, I usually call myself a hobbyist electronics/programmer. These two years I have been messing around with Micky Mouse smart home projects, so I can call myself a smart home hobbyist . To make my home smart, I need to use a little bit of AI, so when I meet some guys claiming that they are robotics hobbyists, I would say "me too"
EE SE is actually quite vague or "multi discipline", cover Electrical Engineering (for centuries means AC Power Generation and Distribution and Application (motors etc). Traditional Educational Institute such as MIT, still have the perhaps 200 years old EE Dept, and they even avoid using the word "computer/computing", even thought they start doing AI in the 1950s with the AI language Lisp.
So when I mess around with robotic, i actually use my knowledge of physics and mechanical engineering, and of course mathematics (applied and pure). I sometimes tell myself not to call myself an EE, because I think an EE should understand the basic concepts of "e", "j", Laplace/Fourier Transforms, can of course more basic things like capacitors and inductors. I am bringing up the subject "inductor" for the reason, which I would say more later. / to continue, ...
04:35
I have diverted a bit far, but I have not forgotten that your main questions is "How to attract more followers?" I usually try to find/tell answers from examples. Here are some examples:
(1) OpAmps Tutorial - What is an Operational Amplifier? - EEVblog, 2014apr06, 1,733,493 views
https://www.google.com/search?q=opamp+tutorial&sxsrf=ALeKk03DZDNaXb20a4fDaO2M0kgHd2Z1nA:1604204829222&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjOh_jXwODsAhXJad4KHWaHATIQ_AUoAnoECBUQBA&biw=1725&bih=863
(2) Operational Amplifier Basics - Electronics Tutorial
https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/opamp/opamp_1.html
(3) Introduction to Operational Amplifier: Characteristics of Ideal Op-Amp - All About Electronics
https://www.google.com/search?q=opamp+tutorial&sxsrf=ALeKk03DZDNaXb20a4fDaO2M0kgHd2Z1nA:1604204829222&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjOh_jXwODsAhXJad4KHWaHATIQ_AUoAnoECBUQBA&biw=1725&bih=863
(2) Operational Amplifier Basics - Electronics Tutorial
https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/opamp/opamp_1.html
(3) Introduction to Operational Amplifier: Characteristics of Ideal Op-Amp - All About Electronics
I am a huge fan of EEVblog, so I usually watch their YouTube first (this example has 1.7 million "viewers/followers"
I am playing with an analogue guy call "LoadCell" weight sensor and I am using a 24-bit ADC called HX711 to sense the weight down to perhaps 0.001g. I hope this would attract many "followers". By the way, I am hoping to use LTspice to show off that the ok boomer does know some new tools, so this bad Arduino friends would not LOL at the face losing old guy that much, and begin to respect him more than he deserves.
(4) Introduction to Operational Amplifiers with ***LTSpice*** - SparkFun
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/introduction-to-operational-amplifiers-with-ltspice/all
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/introduction-to-operational-amplifiers-with-ltspice/all
Errata in chatting. I forgot to mention that what you chat in this room cannot be edited, meaning every mistake in on record. So I usually keep a record and summarize it as a PenZu diary, or as answer.
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06:17
One reason of learning op amp is that I am playing with a analog sensor, a load cellor, with a Wheatstone bridge giving ouput voltage in the range of a couple of milli-volts. I am using a 24 bit ADC HX711 to amplify it to a couple of volts, but there is a problem of instability, unreliability, etc. So one workaround to use an op amp as a pre amp to amplify the weak mv signal to volts. Then perhaps I use low resolution ADC such as MCP3008 (10 bit) or MCP3201 (12 bit), or ADS1115 (16 bit).
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06:33
You are right in commenting that I don't look like an EE. Actually I am also interested in ISAD and ESAD (Information/Engineering System Analysis and Design and Practice) which does not focus in just hardware engineering systems but also software business information systems (methodologies such as Water Fall, UML, Rapid Prototyping (sort of meddling through), Agile etc). I usually recommend the following FREE eBook for enggr system development:
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17:42
Looking at the resources and everything you have written, I understand that you are one of those young people like the boys of Elon Musk who work miracles today. I just wonder where you got this energy and motivation to do all this. I see that you have broad interests and erudition. The book is great and makes me realize how limited I am.
BTW around me are IT students who do similar developments in their diploma theses, some very interesting. Obviously, this is the spirit of the new age... and we, "old warhorses", only keep the wisdom of the past.
I have developed microprocessor devices but that was a long time ago. Gradually, I realized that my vocation is in finding powerful and simple intuitive explanations of basic electronic circuits.
18:24
Here is just one of the latest examples - electronics.stackexchange.com/a/529879/61398 where I have explained the behavior of a diode (in this case LED) at the lowest possible and understandable (even by a non-professional) level. The existing explanations are on a higher and more abstract level - something like "when the voltage approaches the LED threshold, the current starts to rise sharply"...
The existing explanations are on a higher and abstract level - something like "when the voltage approaches the LED threshold, the current starts to rise sharply" ... which is not actually an explanation but an observation. But why is the current rising? The next "explanation" is "because the IV curve rapidly changes its slope"…
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