[sdiy] 'So much "mojo" is just sloppy engineering...'

[cheater00 .]

Electronics used to be mojo and magic too. An "electrician" was a
sideshow performer who could show tricks with amber, later with static
electricity generators, metal leafs, glass spheres, etc. The
technology grew through trial and error, and careful observation of
what works and what doesn't, without understanding how things work
inside. I think we are missing a lot by rejecting this approach, or by
coming up with simple explanations that are too simple, and rejecting
the notion that we just don't understand things.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Veronica Merryfield
<veronica at merryfield.ca> wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Adam Inglis <21pointy at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I thought this quote from a recent post by Tom Wiltshire was so thought-provoking it deserved a thread of its own
>> (while I'm waiting for my T-shirt to get printed ;-)).
>
> I rather liked it too.
>
> In July I am giving a talk on the physics of guitar pickups to a luthiers guild in Tacoma. I volunteered to give the talk expressly because so much of the prevailing 'wisdom' is at best sloppy engineering but it is an area where mojo and magic are the defacto standard.
>
> I like the idea of getting a t-shirt for the talk :)
>
> Veronica
>
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