> That is the real problem, how to express practical insight that is also > broad and far reaching. > I suppose that this question is a specific example of a much larger and > daunting problem ... how to convey experience? Is it possible? > Jim
I personally found when I started electronics development in the 80's the application notes of Analog Devices and Burr Brown very useful. It was a combination of design technology, good practices and experience. It was giving much more info than the datasheets. > >Indeed, component level techies are a dying breed; almost extinct already. Look at the bright side. Do you know the shoemaker who was talking to his son about where to start a new business? They looked around and found 2 possible places. One was in the city, everyone wearing expensive shoes. And one far away in a different country, where nobody was wearing shoes. "No" said the son, "not there, nobody's wearing shoes". So the father said "Yes there, because nobody is wearing shoes, what a business opportunity". Your knowledge may be valuable. But only if there are customers. Industrial, and specials, is still good. > >I survive in a niche market as does Declan apparently. I must admit: I only design electronics for our own purposes nowadays. We changed slowly the last years from development of electronics and software/firmware (I am specialised in Bitbus) to buying and selling electronic parts. We started buy older surplus parts from companies and at auctions. And this is slowly changing too as we are now specialising in precize Hall sensors. And we are even developing our own Hall sensors, fabless, precize, high linearity (0.2%), high temperature range, high robustness, handles high magnetic fields etc. A problem is that much electronics already has been developed. So there is less work. And somehow people seem to want to buy things instead of developing them. We also have to compete with countries where they work MUCH cheaper (they work for a month for the same money we would work for half a day). Believe me, I know as we have two offices now, one in the Netherlands, and one in China. With my colleague living over there taking care of quality (absolutely needed in China). So forget about building standard things. Go industrial, specials, difficult things, where you need to be clever and experienced. There's still work there. If people need help, I am willing to. But as with most of us, time is limited. Setting up a wesite, writing papers costs a lot of time. I do welcome new electronics sites! Regards, Pieter Hoeben ______________________________________________ Hoeben Electronics Phone: +31 6 51590081 Ronkert 44 Fax: +31 13 5096025 5094 EW Lage Mierde Private: +31 13 5096200 The Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hoeben.com ______________________________________________ -- Author: Pieter Hoeben INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
