The Power of Proto Boards [video]

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reposted to fix an audio issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmiWIlFvSYs

context: "Tomorrow on @oxidecomputer and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues @SyntheticGate and @cliffle to talk about the role of rapid hardware prototyping in building a system -- and specifically how our ability to go quickly from ideation to hardware in hand has been essential for a surprisingly wide range of tasks at Oxide."

Thanks for posting, that was very interesting

The silkscreen on the first board is hilarious. "Rotating Trust Knives".

I love that board! I have one that's very much in the same spirit as "kludge.2" (and also red, for the same reason they describe), but the first (Gemini?) board made me realise I need to up my silkscreen game.

As I mentioned on the podcast, I love that board so much I want to be buried with it! In terms of the silk, I (naturally?) especially love "Yes Bryan, I know these are out of order" on the SMBus headers on the bottom right of the board -- not least because even though I don't think Cliff could have known it at the time, I have spent a LOT of time plugging things into those headers, and have probably endured its peculiar ordering more than anyone else!

I often mis-design stuff and end up stuck between "do I undo all this work and make it more consistent, possibly breaking it and losing days in the process, or just overcome my desire for order and keep working with a slightly inconsistent system".

Why is kludge.2.2 (or whatever) not red anymore.

I didn't quite understand how mechanically this works. Would be great to see some picture of the rack insides, maybe with a kludge in it.

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