Check this out! A game in which you can implement your control functions for different plants. janismac.github.io/ControlChallenges

@JonRB

I'm stuck at the inverted pendulum level :|

@Zeta.Investigator oh you are evil :) I was meant to be designing a motor-drive controller

@JonRB Introduce it to your colleagues so they'd may be more flexible accepting unconventional ideas? ;)

@JonRB .... I'm for hire! :-P

Just thinking if I should then pay @Zeta.Investigator an intermediary fee

@Asmyldof Buy @ThePhoton a soda or something...Recently he seems so busy and angry answering Trump in tweet-chains talking about Norway and sh*tholes and such :)

Oh! You remind me of something!

guys, anyone works with vivado? will not using block design with all many files it creates speed up the compilation?

and another question: what is more important to be on SSD, the project or vivado itself?

@Zeta.Investigator I don't need a soda, I need a joint.

hey there @ThePhoton

In case any of you use vivado, i am still here...

@ThePhoton I had to search the meaning of "joint"...Thought you meant elbow or something :)

Hello. I have one small quick question to make. I'm trying to solve some circuit analysis exercises and I was wondering, is one allowed to merge electrically common points?

yeah, go for it :)

i.e. the above. is this something that can be done?

@Eternal_Light as long as the netlist is the same, the circuit's the same, no matter how it's drawn :)

netlist?

@Eternal_Light how computers often keep track of a circuit. it's a list of parts and connections between parts, in an abstract sense

got it. so i could go even further with this and merge the new point with the one to its left as well? @Shalvenay

and have one point with 5 wires connected to it?

@Eternal_Light it'd still have 4 wires connected to it, it'd just be drawn differently

so the fact that [on the left picture] the current on the node in question would first have to split in half and then again in half on the node right under that one whereas on the second picture it straight up splits in 3 is of no concern? @Shalvenay

I'm trying to get the intuition behind this mechanic, so I'm sorry if i'm bothering you with elementary stuff

@Eternal_Light it's not "half and half again", it's "splits according to the components involved"

aggreed

meant to say splits in two (not necessarily even) currents

@Eternal_Light yeah, that doesn't matter then

thanks a ton for your help! i wasnt quite sure how to google for this specific question and i was at a loss