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Posts by Lundin‭

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Q&A Why RC toys still operate in 27Mhz band?

I can think of a couple of reasons: Lower frequencies mean superior range at the same output power. Whereas for example 2.4 GHz technologies tend to behave much more "directional" on short ranges...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Bit-rate vs Baud-rate

Baudrate is most often used to mean payload data bits/second. Simply picture a manchester encoded protocol, where each data bit corresponds to 2 physical bits in the raw data frame. If you have a b...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Are reference requests on-topic?

We haven't really addressed what SE would call "requests for external resources" here. I think it's quite clear that we aren't taking shopping recommendations, as in "where do I buy this part". Ask...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Creating a FAQ: how to read a datasheet

How about this: I create a meta thread here where everyone is welcome to post contents, feedback and proposed changes. The question of the meta thread should contain a continuously updated draf...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta A community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering?

I support this idea and think that it might fit the Papers category, although it should be allowed to have multiple users maintain and moderate it. It should be a brief glossary for a quick look-up...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A What is connector pitch and how to measure it?

When posting identification or general questions related to connectors, integrated circuits or other parts with pins/legs, engineers always speak about something called pitch. What is the meaning ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Is Feeding a Watchdog Timer from an ISR a Bad Practice?

The problem with refreshing the watchdog from an ISR is that in case the main program hangs for whatever the reason, the ISR will keep living and could keep the watchdog alive, effectively blocking...

posted 20h ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 20h ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Let's have a "Papers" category.

My biggest concern is that it will get too random and low quality. The worst that can happen is something similar to SO's failed "Documentation project" a couple of years ago, where users were to w...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A How come the registers in a micro are application specific?

They aren't specific to the project, but to the MCU. As long as you use the same MCU for multiple projects, they will be code compatible. Some hardware peripherals are even code compatible between ...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Homework questions / "ask an engineer".

Our on-topic page currently lists homework questions as mostly off-topic, in the following manner: No interest in understanding or learning, "Just gimme da anser!" There has to be some element ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by coquelicot‭

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Meta How to treat data communication questions?

I think these kind of abstract/big picture data communication questions should be on-topic here. Such as the mentioned question about the OSI model. I've been actively pushing for software.codidac...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Let's make all downvotes public

People will be afraid to say what they really mean. If you don't have enough conviction in your judgement that something is wrong, then it's not worth listening to in the first place. If this di...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta A community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering?

At Somewhere Else, we started an initiative to make a community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering: What are abbreviations used in electrical engineering? I think it c...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta What should rep gain/loss be on Papers?

I think they should have the same rep as ordinary posts. If they are high quality they will eventually accumulate a lot of up-votes over time. That's how the voting system is supposed to work, rewa...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta How to request a mass-change in capitalization for tags?

Apart from correcting capitalization, which is a valid change, I think you are at the same time doing a lot of subjective changes to certain tags and it can get very intrusive on the site. I don't ...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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