{"id":2576,"date":"2022-09-21T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T07:00:46","slug":"open-circuits-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/open-circuits-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Open Circuits&#8221; book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LgtcL4hkQl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/?p=6558\">Book Review: Open Circuits<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Book Review: &lt;em&gt;Open Circuits&lt;\/em&gt;&#8221; &#8212; bunnie&#039;s blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/?p=6558&#038;embed=true#?secret=xqO2uu0FZc#?secret=LgtcL4hkQl\" data-secret=\"LgtcL4hkQl\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The pages of <em>Open Circuits<\/em> contain ample inspiration for both novices and grizzled veterans alike. Having been in electronics for four decades, I sometimes worry I\u2019m becoming numb and cynical as I watch the world\u2019s landfills brim with cheap electronics, built without care and purchased (and disposed of) with even less thought. However, as I thumb through the pages of <em>Open Circuits<\/em>, that excitement, that awe which I felt as a youth when I traced my fingers along the outlines of the resistors and capacitors of my first computer returns to me. Schlaepfer and Oskay render even the most mundane artifacts, such as the ceramic disc capacitor, in splendid detail \u2013 and in ways I\u2019ve never seen before. Prior to now, I had no intuition for the dimensions of an actual capacitor\u2019s dielectric material. I also didn\u2019t realize that every thick film resistor bears the marks of lasers that trim it to its final value. Or just seeing the cross-section of a coaxial cable, as joined through a connector \u2013 all of a sudden, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telegrapher%27s_equations\">telegrapher\u2019s equations<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time-domain_reflectometer#\/media\/File:TDR_SMA_BNC_BNC_term.svg\">time domain reflectometry graphs<\/a> take on a new and very tangible meaning to me. <em>Ah<\/em>, I think, <em>so that\u2019s the bump in the TDR graph at the connector interface!&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Open Circuits &nbsp; (&#8230;) The pages of Open Circuits contain ample inspiration for both novices and grizzled veterans alike. Having been in electronics for four decades, I sometimes worry I\u2019m becoming numb and cynical as I watch the world\u2019s landfills brim with cheap electronics, built without care and purchased (and disposed of) with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Open Circuits&quot; book review | Artmaker Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Open Circuits&quot; book review | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/open-circuits-book-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Open Circuits&quot; 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