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Happy Valentines Day! - What do you Love / Hate about Electronics?

cstanton

(or singles awareness day)

 

Everyone has a love in their life, their partner, pet, a television show, and for others it is their favourite electronics project that takes pride of place in their application or showcase.

 

Though for most of us, we do not always love our electronics, in fact, they can be the bane of our existence. Whether it's the work virtual private networking not functioning, computer memory deciding to fail, or our mobile phone not having signal.

 

For me recently, it was the Bluetooth transmitter receiver not transmitting, until I flicked it to receive, paired it, then flicked it to transmit. I hate the fact I have to do that, and yet I love how well it now works! Paired up with a Raspberry Pi Zero it functions as a Bluetooth speaker with extra facilities!

 

How's your love/hate relationship with electronics? Perhaps you have a project tale similar to myself, or do you hate a particular item outright? If I was to choose something I hate, it's how invariable the electronic sparkers work on gas ovens and hobs!

 

Let us know in the comments below image and you should earn a badge and some points for your efforts - unless the gamification's failed me! (damn technology image)

 

 

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  • I had a little think about what I like most about electronics and I just like all of it. I can remember as a 5 or 6 year old making my first electronic(?) or maybe electrical project, which was a battery I had 'borrowed' from somewhere, a couple of bits of wire obtained from the local rubbish dump (in the days when you could just wander onto rubbish dumps to leave stuff or just rummage around in the rubbish and take stuff away) and a 3V bulb from a cycle lamp that I had gone to the village TV shop and purchased by myself (I was only 5!). Then lying underneath a deckchair in the summer sun trying to make a circuit using modelling clay to stick the wires on. Apart from one brief flash of light I failed as I did not understand that bulbs had two connections, one of the side and one on the bottom. It put me off doing any more for several years but I returned to it when I was a few years older with a clip together electronics kit. I made a small amplifier using a crystal earpiece and then ran wires all round my house from the TV to my bedroom in the hope of being able to listen to TV after going to bed. It didn't work either - but, unknown to me my parents had spotted this contraption stuck underneath the TV and quietly disconnected it when I went to bed! Sneaky!

     

    Now, I think the thing I like the most is my 3D printer. After several years messing about with one at work and now my own for two years after retiring, I am just about getting to the point where I understand a bit of what is going on and I can make a Valentine card for my wife, see below:

     

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    Dubbie

     

    PS Of course I also really like mobile robots!

  • in reply to dubbie

    That's a really impressive 3D printer!

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