April 21, 2010
#730: Circuit Diagram explain
[In the upper left corner there is a map scale, labeled with 1 mi (1 km).]
[Underneath the scale is a circuit diagram with the following items connected:]
An antenna symbol.
A blender.
An Arduino, labeled with “Arduino, just for blog cred”.
A chip, labeled “Most expensive chip available”.
A symbol for an inductor.
A pattern that looks like a highway cloverleaf.
A battery symbol (with the + and - symbols on the wrong ends) with a value of √2V.
A resistor symbol label “120Ω or to taste”.
A switch that is labeled “glue open”.
A transistor with two emitters, one P and one N, and no collector.
A jar of scarab beetles.
A resistor labeled “brown blue orange”.
An unlabeled resistor with a center tap.
A capacitor.
A diode.
A ground.
An inductor.
An another inductor.
The two inductors and ground are all covered by a “solder blob”.
A “666 timer” that has pin 5 going into a question mark.
A compass rose.
A battery, labeled 50V, with grounds on both sides.
A long horizontal wire that is labeled “pull this wire really tight”.
An AC source that is labeled 240V, shorted out, with a label on the short “Omit this if you’re a wimp.”
An inductor that is labeled with “11kg”.
A Batman symbol.
A squirrel.
A wire that is labeled as a distance 3/8".
A 50V battery.
A frowny face.
A vertical wire with a 90 degree bend labeled “caution”.
A balloon.
An inductor symbol with a line on the bottom edge labeled as “warm front”.
A resistor labeled “ë”.
An electric eel.
A capacitor.
An unlabeled resistor.
A gob of hot glue attached to a chip with an inverter hooked to an XOR gate, both with feedback into each other.
A neck strap.
A bridge rectifier labeled as “Moral rectifier”.
A bottle of magic smoke.
A fishing bobber.
A broken wire labeled with a question mark.
A vertical wire labeled with “electrons single file”.
A switch labeled “Hire someone to open and close switch real fast.”
A contact labeled “touch tongue here”.
A resistor labeled “5Ω (decoy)” with only one terminal connected.
A methyl group attached to a wire.
A complex mesh of 1Ω resistors labeled with “Oh, so you think you’re such a whiz at EE201?”
A wire labeled “electrons single file”.
A wire bent in a U shape with an upside-down ground on the end.
A flux capacitor with the bottom wire labeled “I-95”.
A wire labeled “yarn”.
An arena with two diodes going in and one leaving.
An anode labeled “Bury deep, but not too deep.”
A motor labeled “vibrator”.
A resistor with a value of π.
A 500V AC source.
A wire that leads out of frame with a label “to center of sun”.
A 55 MPH speed limit sign.
An SR latch (flip-flop) labeled “may use an actual sandal instead”.
A holding pen.
A wire in a knot.
A resistor labeled “8mm”.
A resistor symbol labeled “not a resistor; wire just does this”.
A motor symbol labeled “to scale”.
A tangled mess of wires connected and jumping over each other.
A photo diode labeled “tear collector”.
A wire in the shape of a ECG.
A light bulb.
A capacitor-looking symbol labeled “3 liters”.
A resistor labeled “yes”.
An unlabeled inductor.
A resistor with a question mark as a label.
An inductor labeled “Take off shirt while wiring this part. Ooh, yeah, I like that.”
A ground symbol immersed in a beaker of holy water.