The board designer in me hates to see so many vias and acid traps.
^(It's pain.)
The board designer in me hates to see so many vias and acid traps.
^(It's pain.)
I know vias but what are acid traps?
Acid traps are acute angles in traces where older board manufacturing techniques can sometimes unintentionally damage/destroy traces. It isn't as large of an issue anymore, but best practice for PCB design dictates that it should be avoided.
So how should one avoid them while designing a PCB? Would making them Smooth work?
Two 45-degree bends work as well, and you can always route underneath the board using vias. The principle I was told to follow for standard two-layer designs is to route each side differently. For example, the top layer routes horizontally, and the rear is routed vertically. This ends up inherently reducing the number of vias you'll need to use, and it makes routing connections a lot easier.
The example without any solid colors (copper fill) is my first-ever attempt at routing traces. As you can see, it's not easy to figure out the best way to route everything when you're aimlessly dropping vias and routing willy-nilly. I ended up asking for some help over on the KiCAD Discord. Someone pointed out that systematically routing the board (as described above) can significantly simplify the design. Not only did I roughly half the number of vias, but I also managed to streamline a lot of traces into shorter runs. The copper pours are added once you are finished routing, and it has several benefits. The largest is that it acts as a ground plane for the device, meaning that all pads connect directly to a large plane of copper. It's a relatively quick and efficient way to finish up the remaining connections, and ground planes can also shield signals in certain situations.
Smooth curves (albeit uncommon) go back to (at least) the 1980s. If I were to guess, they were likely the result of hand-drawn PCB designs that predated EDA software. I have seen some modern designs that use them, and I think you can configure some EDA software to allow them. Aside from aesthetics, the reasons to use them are, in my opinion, negligible.
This would be amazing in widescreen desktop resolution!
I second this
Took the words out of my head
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shoptefy
Awfully close to 'Shopify'. So close it seems sketchy.
*googles 'shoptefy'*
'shoptefy' mentioned as a website promoted by spambots here - https://www.reddit.com/user/Someoneman/comments/q3mxam/guide_to_recognizing_spambots/
Whether it's legit or not, 'shoptefy' just doesn't sit right with me. I don't trust it.
Yep thats a scam, site was first created late 2021 and its domain is set to expire in 2022.
don't buy from this link its stolen art
Looks like there was a more desktop wallpaper version when this was posted another time on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/comments/6no7q7/the_great_wave_as_a_circuit_board_2560_1440/
Thanks, was able to make an ultrawide version from your link!
OK, I made an ultra-wide version and cleaned up some pixelation I saw while zoomed in:
https://imgur.com/a/oDwRKSC
I know nothing about circuit boards, but could this theoretically be used in anything?
There's typically multiple layers so in theory it could be used with some work behind the visual, but not by itself (at least practically)
Even a basic board design has several layers for soldermask, traces, silkscreen, and internal board notation. It's also typically all in a vector format, so bitmaps have to be converted.
Such a cool remix of this wave
Thanks for the new phone background!
When I saw the thumbnail I thought "cool, another wave over kanagawa with scanlines" but what a treat when I opened the full image!
Fantastic!
Cool
Oh I REALLY like this
Siiiiick
Dope af
this is insanely cool
But... but... mount Fuji in the distance? The entire point of scale here
Umm, the original is actually a ~~painting~~ wood block print of Mt. Fuji, which is missing.
I just wrote an essay about The Great Wave for one of my college courses and I find it really interesting how often Mt.Fuji (and the boats) is left out when it’s recreated/redesigned even though it’s part of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. I personally feel that leaving out Mt.Fuji and the boats really take away from the impact/feelings the original piece conveys.
The wave element itself has become a visual shorthand for traditional Japanese art, so it's understandable. What an original artist intends and how people interpret the final work are often distinct ideas.
uMmMMhhmM yOu gUyS
damn, this would look slick as hell without the jpeg artifacts.
AMAZINGGG!!!
This is now my discord avatar. Thank you Ordner, this is fantastic.
This is just way too cool
Cool
Does anyone have more of the genre in this color palate?
my sadness knowing I cannot have this as a multi-screen desktop background is immeasurable, and my day is ruined :(
check out Wave of the Universe, it has a similar vibe. Super cool
I love it
A m a z I n g W a v e
fuck, that's cool
artist credit: Alain Bousquet