There was a clip I saw of a mother going through their child’s text…
YOLO? What’s that!!! … Is YOLO a drug???
Agreed. Super annoying when people ask questions without a question mark.
All this is a gateway drug to
5V-| | | |-3V3 GND-| | | |-IO16 IO12-| |_______| |-IO0 IO13-| |-GND IO15-| |-VCC IO14-| |-UDR IO2-| ESP32-CAM |-UDT IO4-|_______________|-GNDI think they call it a micro controller because it gets inside your brain and controls you!!!
Just like how cats offloaded all the thinking onto humans who serve them, and now we’re offloading all the thinking onto chips who we will serve… o hwait
Worse, he is “soldering”
Is that a reference to interest in electronics being a gateway drug to gender transition?
Connect LGBTQ+ to LGBTQ-
When I first started setting lgbt I was wondering why everyone was interested in insulated gate bipolar transistors.
Well they did enable electric cars and efficient per-home solar inverters, they’re pretty cool.
gonna need a 4kOhm resistor to do a pull down for that. You’ll be Queer, but you won’t be happy about it.
…to gender transistor.
FTFY.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
From transistors to trans sisters
TIL
Yes, he is. But these are just resistors.
Worse, he’s picked up a nasty through-hole habit.
it’s for resisting peer pressure
Ohm my god good one
Got me really amped up
Watt are you talking about
Just follow the current
Really enjoying the arc of this comment tree
If not for those, he’d be inhaling magic smoke
I guess she encountered a lot of resistance from all those!
Found his kit, please help:
This is so overkill; all you need is a lighter and a spoon, and those contacts basically bond themselves
Paperclip might work better, less thermal mass.
I mean, you solder pipes with a flame, why not circuit boards too?
There used to be little butane soldering irons back in the day before lithium batteries took over.
Every soldering iron I’ve ever used has been a desktop station that plugs into the wall.
Apparently portable soldering irons in general are quite a new concept (1984): https://portasol.com/about-us
Fuck! This is a 21st century vampire hunting kit!
What’s this really?
So much worse. Kid’s gonna be an engineer.
Drugs, engineering, what’s the difference, both leave you unable to sleep for weeks on end because of the imaginary components of a problem nobody else understands
And, let’s be real - they often go hand-in-hand, anyway.
What is it actually?
Electronic parts. Resistors. Probably about 66 ohms resistance looking at the color bands.
This guy resists.
It’s a pack of resistors. Electrical resistors for building electronic circuits.
Here’s a circuit board with resistors installed. They’re used by hobbyists to make their own boards.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CznnpTiCZuk
However, even for hobbyists, surface mount versions are now common:
Yeah, the first kind is more common when you’re a beginner hobbyist and are just starting to learn to solder just using a run of the mill soldering iron and soldering wire, whilst the second kind at the very least requires some experience soldering and a steady hand - as even the largest surface mount components are smaller the Through Hold equivalents and generally one doesn’t use the largest - or some special equipment (a soldering over and solder paste - which a paste for of solder which, unlike solder wire, spoils with time if unused).
However you can make way smaller circuits with the second kind (even if using the bigger surface mount components, though with the smaller ones the different is insane and some things are only really possible in practice to make with the smaller surface mount components) plus many integrated circuits only come in surface mount versions.
Also the second kind can be wholly and easilly assembled by machines (in fact the really small surface mount components are near impossible for humans to properly place), which is why if you open an electronic device nowadays you’ll see it’s almost or even entirelly made up of surface mounted components.
Mind you, nowadays even a hobbyist can just design a circuit with surface mount components and have the whole thing assembled by shops which will do small runs (like just 10 units) all of which pretty cheaply of you use one of the Chinese companies that do those things.
Sure, it always just starts with “I’ll just solder a few resistors here; what’s the problem?”, but before you know it your kid is gonna be out there giving acid baths to PCBs.
Ohh I thought they were pins and the kids was tailoring his clothes.
I thought it was some odd looking embroidery.
