Is there anything more prone to procrastination that doing footprints?

[eecook]

I think that is probably when I watch Dave's videos the most so at least somebody is getting a benefit out of it.

[coppercone2]

Yes footprints are evil, try altium because they have footprints for like.. 50% of your parts if you make moderately advanced designs.

You need two monitors etc. I thought about making a fucking caliper that I can hold up to the monitor that would scale with the monitor so I can see if my drawings are good etc. Like if it could scale between monitor.

Or something with google goggles. Because you don't need to be THAT precise unless you want no-failure during mass production.

[T3sl4co1l]

Sure.  I could procrastinate just listing all of them.

Reviewing layout.
Writing standards.
Reading standards.
Writing reports.
Reading reports.

Tim

[GreyWoolfe]

Is there anything more prone to procrastination that doing footprints?  I'm sure there is but we can talk about it later.

[langwadt]

I'll do it tomorrow, it had to be done yesterday anyway

[xrunner]

A friend of mine said he was a procrastinator. I said I had been meaning to tell him that, but I just kept putting it off.

[T3sl4co1l]

The monthly meeting of Procrastinators Anonymous has been postponed to the next scheduled date. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Tim

[xrunner]

The monthly meeting of Procrastinators Anonymous has been postponed to the next scheduled date. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Tim

You should be notified of any further delays by email. However, our secretary keeps delaying her scheduled vacation plans so we cannot guarantee this.

[basinstreetdesign]

Is there anything more prone to procrastination that doing footprints?  I'm sure there is but we can talk about it later.

[james_s]

Doing footprints is easy, where I tend to procrastinate is drilling/cutting/filing prototype enclosures and getting everything all buttoned up. That and refacting crappy but working code to make it more presentable.

[Rerouter]

Making footprints is the easy part of most of my projects, its generally things like precision circuits and switchmode converters, where you ideally want things as closely packed as possible, I generally end up duplicating things 4-5 times and laying out the same group multiple times to figure out the best way to do it.

Then there is in infinite slog of going over datasheets with a fine tooth comb to find every gotcha you can early,

[TerraHertz]

That sounds like a good topic for a web article. I should write it up. Idk, maybe later.

Or, how about editing thread titles to fix spelling errors?

[Gribo]

Yes, there are few more things. Procedures, ECOs, NCRs.
 'What do we say to the death god?' 'Not today'

[AlfBaz]

reserved

[coppercone2]

dude procedures can be fun to write because you need to think about psychology when you write them, their supposed to decrease management workload if used correctly.

footprints are literally doing lithography by hand. If you get a model it turns into verification which is easier, so long the cad program you use has a good ruler tool (not some weird shit like altium).