Re: nice board

On Thu, 23 May 2024 14:58:38 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 5/23/2024 2:49 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 23 May 2024 13:41:03 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 5/23/2024 1:19 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 23 May 2024 13:07:48 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 5/23/2024 12:26 PM, Lasse Langwadt wrote:

On 5/23/24 11:00, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

On 5/22/24 23:09, john larkin wrote:

Or IC, or whatever it is.
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https://allinonecomponents.com/assets/img/circuits.jpg
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Artist's impression of ... something?

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might be AI ..
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This was generated on a circa 2016 Tesla M40 in about 20 seconds based
on the original image as a guide:
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<https://imgur.com/a/baM5wMn>
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They're about $80 surplus now which is a nice value for an older GPU
with 24 gigs of RAM.
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I would fire, and maybe harm, anybody who laid out a board that bad.
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One more AI PCB hallucination, this one looks sorta realistic, if you
squint:
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<https://imgur.com/a/6nxahFw>
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You can select XY tiling with this software and tile them out to cover a
wall!

 
Typical crazy, idiotic  traces. Like a car with the wheels on the
sides, or a shower facing the wall.
 

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Yeah, I'll start getting concerned when it can be sensible with layouts.
But that'll be some other kind of software, this doesn't "know" anything
about electrical rules or any of that.
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It stitches together fragments of other images until some other AI that
also doesn't know anything about the rules can't easily distinguish it
from a training image, whaddya want.

There is auto-place and auto-route PCB sofrware - most layout programs
do that - but both tend to be terrible.