Just for Ham Radio folks

[BillyGreen1973]

On a similar track is the hidden world of 'Silicon Art' or silicon graffitti. It is where the IC designer 'hides' an image in the die layout. These little doodles are phenominally small, but end up in every chip produced.

Have a look at this website for some pics and in depth explanations.

http://www.chipworks.com/en/newsroom/silicon-art-library

Below is an example from the Motorola XPC750 microprocessor die.

 

[nbw]

That is SO cool!! And to think some people reckon engineers don't have a sense of humour

It reminds a bit of the run-off grooves in records - they used to scratch some funny sayings in those...

 

[nbw]

#058 - Tilt Meter

A quick'n'simple one because it's wet, dark, cold and I'm tired.

A tilt meter.

 

[nbw]

#059 - Grounded!

This one, I thought, was pretty self-explanatory until I started to go through it with my wife. I then got onto analogue versus digital grounds, and then her eyes started to glaze over.........

 

[inglewoodpete]

Love it, especially with the accompanying explanation!

 

[nbw]

Fastest way to get my wife to leave the room: waxing lyrical about star grounds, and how their importance and value in amplifier circuits is not to be under-estimated

 

[nbw]

#060 - Super Capacitor!

I had a lot of fun doing this one. One whole Farad of grunt!!!

 

[nbw]

#061 - Induction

Very simple this one... a bit of ferrite... a little enameled wire...

 

[Dan M]

I see the ham radio... If you were to draw a group of musicians playing next to the table, they would be the side-band...
<grins>


Dan M.

I won't bother folks with every cartoon I do, but I really liked this one and thought there might be a few on the forum who are into ham radio.

Enjoy!!!

Kind regards, Barney

p.s. if anyone wants this on a T-shirt, mousepad, mug, bag etc please PM me.

 

[nbw]

Nice!! LOL

And the tuba player - he of the wider girth - he would be Broadband

 

[nbw]

062 Square root

Taking a step to the left, some PICAXEs haven't been able to easily to up until recent times - the glorious square root (cube root to follow). My wife bemoaned that most of my work seems to be biased (haha!) to electronics.

p.s. if anyone wants to follow the latest stuff I do as well, if you search for Ohmart on Facebook, find an image that looks like a transistor in a blender, and click the 'Like' button, that would be splenderous.

And now, back to our feature programme

 

[nbw]

063 Cube root

The more difficult younger brother to "Square Root", "Cube Root".

 

[nbw]

064 Current mirror

Of course, when a PN200 looks in the current mirror, she sees a PN100, ... right?

 

[nbw]

065 Peak Demand

AKA Peek Demand... with apologies and respect to Marilyn

 

[manuka]

Bravo! Now how about a "long tailed pair" and "totem pole" ?!

 

[nbw]

Good call Stan! I'll add them to the ever-growing list

 

[MPep]

'Rubber zener'? Love the cartoons!

 

[nbw]

066 Self-Discharge

Cheers! Another good suggestion on the zener.

Here's the latest pic: self-discharge.

 

[nbw]

067 R-C Network

Based on the most useful RC (Resistor-Capacitor) Network, keeping you up to date with the latest surge and spike news!!

 

[BillyGreen1973]

While doing a bit of reading on the history of radio valves, I spotted this picture (below), and thought of this thread right away.

NBW, your cartoon characters are not an original idea

The cartoon depicts Klaas Rodenhuis traveling to Paris with two of his 'children' (new tubes for IBM).

He was the director of Philips Tube devision (VALVO) around the 1950's, and he is credited with developing the high speed triode (a valve transistor) that can handle frequencies above 1Ghz, and was used in computers and test equipment.

The left hand image marks the production of the 700,000th tube for IBM.
Both images are from a book Rodenhuis was given as a leaving present in 1959 when he left Philips.

 

[nbw]

I'd never heard of this chap until I read your post.

As far as originality goes, while I'm not the first to cartoonise components, I'm very comfortable my concepts, style, humour etc haven't been replicated by anyone else.

 

[nbw]

p.s. to whoever thinks 'there are no original ideas' (and there are tons of folks out there who say this)... where did the ideas come from in the first place? huh?!??!

 

[nbw]

068 Trimpot

Ahem, and now that I've climbed back off my soapbox, here's 068 - with respect to the mighty Bournes trimmer. This one is dedicated to J. Craig, who apparently lost lots of k's in her time

 

[nbw]

069 Sub-woofer

For all of the U.S. PICAXErs out there, especially any in Noo Yoike

 

[nbw]

070 Notch filter

A little tongue-in-cheek, or just a bit cheeky this one - deep V notch, roll-offs etc.

It was either that or draw a (S)allen key

 

[nbw]

071 ROHM if you want to

With apologies to the B52s, but I did make up the 'lead' lyrics

 

[nbw]

072 Logic families

Dedicated to everyone's neighbours everywhere... even the crusty old ones that won't throw your ball back. <end child-hood annoyance rant here>

 

[nbw]

073 Photo-multiplier

This one is based on the photo-multiplier, that cheeky trickster at every office party!

 

[nbw]

074.How current sees it...

I drew this one to describe to my 7 yr old son what current "sees" when it comes to a branch with 2 different resistances. He understands now that a little bit of brave current will "choose" the high resistance path, but that most goes for the easier route

 

[John West]

Ah, so that's the problem. I've spent my life taking the 1M Ohm route instead of the 1K route. That explains a lot.

 

[nbw]

075 Skinny DIP

I always knew there was something sneaky about those thin 28X's!!

 

[manuka]

Legs you say -did I miss the "long tailed pair" ?!

 

[nbw]

haha good call!

 

[nbw]

076 Inducing a current

A courteous nod to the fairer sex who carry the burden of giving birth....

 

[nbw]

077 Multiplex

Everyone knows multiplexing gives the designer the ability to do more with less etc...

 

[nbw]

078 Shift register.... the 4-bit / 8-bit feud rages on!

 

[nbw]

079 Nine's complement!

(not just maths, but digital electronics too of course

 

[nbw]

080 - Floating ground

 

[nbw]

081 - Discreet components (discrete!)

 

[nbw]

082 - Scope creep <insert zombie-like creeping noise here>