u/Double_Isopod_9586

Hi everyone,

Perhaps Im posting this looking for advice, perhaps I’m looking for reassurance.

I got an internship at a PCB manufacturing company. They told me to design and manufacture a custom PCB to continuity test their designs.

I did, and I was super excited. I had about 3 months and I thought that would be PLENTY of time. After roughly 3 weeks I sent my gerber file for manufacture in house.

About 3 went by and I realized that the PCB was taking far too long so I decided to make my manager order it on JLC pcb instead. Now I only had a month for bring up.

Then I had to wait for my board to come, when I realized my manager forgot to order parts.

By the time that my board was fully assembled, I only had 2 weeks to bring up my board.

I put it all together and there was a short. I realized I set up my power input wrong and fixed it using jumper wires.

Then I got my board powered up, and while probing the power pins to see if everything was on correctly I accidentally shorted gnd and power together on the pins, and exploded a ferrite bead.

I got the ferrite bead replaced, but the MCU wouldn’t connect. I’ve tried many things but I suspect that the ferrite bead incident may have internally melted the MCU (despite the fact that all power pins seems normal)

That’s where I am now. It’s wednesday, and I leave this internship next week on friday. Can’t even connect to the MCU and I still have the ADC, relay drivers, sense muxes, LCD screen, load switches that I can’t even test to see if they work. I feel in despair.

I had made a custom PCB for a school team too but I never did firmware or bring up, just schematic and layout.

I’m really dissapointed that in two projects and a year of designing PCBs, i’ve never actually got one up and running and working. I feel like I am really stupid and bad at designing PCBs and the fact that i’ve never got one working is weighing on me i guess. I was so excited at the beginning of the internship and I was convinced i’d able to finish with time to spare.

Does anyone know if this is normal? Advice for the future? Am I terrible at this?

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a writer for a passion project yuri visual novel I'm making!

it's based in the coast of new england, probably in maine. It's about two characters meeting for a summer, irreparably changing each other, then parting ways.

Some important themes are potential, dreams, freedom/entrapment, and self discovery The two main characters are meant to contrast each other; with the main character yearning for the small city and sacrificing her savings to live in a seaside cottage for a summer, while the love interest feels trapped in it.

The main character has an appreciation for life, nature and technology, and teaches for the love interest about it. The love interest teaches the main character about art. It's moody, nostalgic and meant to feel like a summer memory, influenced by life is strange and highway blossoms.

I haven't figured out the story in it's entirety yet so I'd love to hear a good writer's takes on it. I'm not great at creating stories or writing so heavy input from someone more experienced them me would be great.

I'm an experienced artist. You can view my drawings here: https://x.com/navybluechilipe

I'm looking for someone who resonates with the story; someone who understands the vibes I'm presenting and someone who sort of relates to and understands the characters. I'm looking for someone passionate who is looking to create something really meaningful. Im posting here because I'd like someone who actually reads yuri visual novels.

Please send me a DM or comment!

https://preview.redd.it/njex2msz41hh1.png?width=1193&format=png&auto=webp&s=a77e8a3b577a02db424a60b9d2f50b8a2a6b9f7d

Not sure if this is the right subreddit/place to post, so please redirect me if I'm wrong. I've wanted one of those thick, winter liz-lisa poncho jackets for 2 years now, so I've decided I want to get one.

I really really like this one's style - it's more earth and mori-kei over super sweet and girly which is what I prefer, but the price/quality doesn't look amazing (?) the price looks somewhat low. I'm not super familiar with aliexpress - is the return policy easy? Based on this listing, does it look like it could survive like 0deg celsius Canadian winters?

I've seen more expensive (~100$) thick coats on aliexpress, but all of them are in white, pink or black. My question here is if this posting looks worth it, and if not, if there are any better quality ones in brown. Thank you!

Hi everybody,

I’ve gotten an internship for summer 2026 and there’s A LOT of downtime. Honestly being here is super boring sometimes (when I have work to do I’m having fun, but I honestly hate it when I don’t have work). I think it would be a good idea to use this time to study ahead for my courses next year.

I take it that the C++ course and circuits course are the best courses to study ahead on. If so, can anyone provide good learning resources? IE: textbook, recorded lectures, a website like Salma Emara’s learningc.org?

I’d also appreciate some more tips on ECE second year.

Thanks everyone!

Hi everybody, not sure if reddit is the best place to ask for advice, but maybe people on here have more wisdom than me.

I’m 19F and I’ve never dated anyone. I’ve been hit on about 4 times so far by random older men but I’ve never, and I mean never, had a romantic interaction in my personal life. Not in elementary school, middle school, a boy I’ve ignored, etc. This both confuses me and makes me feel insecure, to be honest.

I’ve also never had a crush on anyone before and I don’t think I ever will. Despite that I really want to experience love, probably because society makes it sound so amazing. It doesn’t help that I’m a femme lesbian and I have no idea who is lesbian.

I’ve tried talking to girls at parties but I’m super awkward and they usually are taken/in highschool/not my vibe. And to be honest it feels like it did back in elementary school when my friends asked me who my crush was and I picked a completely random boy in my class.

Anyway, I want a girlfriend; if anyone has any advice, i’d really appreciate it. Also, if anyone knows why only strangers hit on me and nobody normal/my age likes me please enlighten me.

Hi everyone! I have a super naturally messy drawing style and my process doesn't help. I was wondering how much the messiness in this drawing helps/hurts it and how I should proceed with cleaning it up without losing it's essence.

Also, any other advice would be appreciated.

https://preview.redd.it/hb3ajsjuvr7h1.png?width=8186&format=png&auto=webp&s=0dbf6639b8eb592a4bd71681f0dfad5db75eeef8

Hi everybody, I've been working at an engineering internship for around 2 weeks now, and they've asked me to create a 13x13 channel continuity test fixture. It's supposed to measure if a test is <2ohms, and my supervisor said it should be within a 10% accuracy. I've gone with a robust and extremely accurate 4-wire kelvin sensing design with relay switches.

I have some experience designing PCBs (schematic, layout, assembly) but I never had to design the block diagram/concept of the circuit.

When I was designing this board, I've never made the block diagram for boards before. I came up with a few ways to create this text fixture, and I even asked my design team lead about it, but I ended up just sticking with the design that Copilot convinced me was the best.

That being said, I'm really doubting my choice now. To me, what it said made sense, and I tried to verify it myself, but I don't really understand alot of things it said. (For example, it was so insistent I should use reed relays over load switches/muxes, but I didn't understand why for my specific design.)

Alot of the time the AI would be super insistent on something but I would convince it otherwise with my own reasoning. It's been completely wrong a few times (such as when it convinced me I had the wrong footprint for a schematic, when it was perfectly fine).

The problem is that I'm pretty inexperienced, and since the AI is wrong alot too, it's like the blind leading the blind. I want try to decide what's the best way to design something myself, but it always convinces there's some current leakage/on resistance/EMI issue I'm never aware of.

To make it clear, I'm NOT talking about if AI can make an entire PCB or even touch schematic/layout. I'm relatively confident in my ability to design schematic/layout, and even though I'm a dumb first year I can definetly do it better than AI.

My question, TLDR: Is AI good for block-diagrams/architecture for PCB?

Hi everybody, I've been working at an engineering internship for around 2 weeks now, and they've asked me to create a 13x13 channel continuity test fixture.

I have some experience designing PCBS (schematic, layout, assembly) but it was in a design team. When I was in the design team, my lead just gave me the description of what the board did and the block diagram (names of components, like ADC, MCU, Pin header, etc).

When I was designing this board, I've never made the block diagram for boards before. I came up with a few ways to create this text fixture, and I even asked my design team lead about it, but I ended up just sticking with the design that Copilot convinced me was the best.

That being said, I'm really doubting my choice now. To me, what it said made sense, and I tried to verify it myself, but I don't really understand alot of things it said. (For example, it was so insistent I should use reed relays over load switches/muxes, but I didn't understand why for my specific design.)

Alot of the time the AI would be super insistent on something but I would convince it with my own reasoning. It's been completely wrong a few times (such as when it convinced me I had the wrong footprint for a schematic, when it was perfectly fine). The problem is that I'm pretty inexperienced with deciding what's the best way to design something myself, and I don't really have the knowledge to know when the AI is wrong.

My question, TLDR: Is AI good for block-diagrams/architecture for PCB?

Hi everyone! i’ve been working very hard on a art tutorial video which i plan to post to youtube soon.

I have ~1.3k subscribers because of some animatics I posted years ago. I am very successful on tiktok - half a million views consistently - but I don’t make a dime off it.

I reposted my tiktoks to youtube but they only got 1-2k views. I don’t understand why, and I don’t want my high effort video i’ve spent weeks on to do as poorly.

A very popular youtube channel (1 mill subs) showed my tiktok, and included the part at the end where I referenced my channel which I will upload to “soon”. I’m very upset because at the time, I had nothing on my channel. So that didn’t help me at all 😭

How do I use my existing online influence to kickstart my youtube career the best? Any advice is appreciated.