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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Same here, but I'd still be pretty annoyed if I had to do it to put together a drone, it's a pain in the ass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Soldering is so easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I find it interesting more than anything else.

In high school electronics we also used a tesla coil (that can kill you if you touch the wrong place) so they disconnected the mains cord so it had to be rewired prior to use to keep us safer.

They taught us how to wire plugs the following week...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

You got taught how to rewire a plug in high school?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Middle school for me. Was about a month of machine shop. We built a breadboard, demonstrated the difference between series and parallel using light bulbs, that kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Did half the class also make tazers after learning what a capacitor does, which wasn't three best thing to know with wooden desks....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, purely resistive loads in that class. Was pretty basic since it was a required course. Electronics in high school, an elective... yeah there were some dipshits that earned the Sparky nickname.

Now tech school, where we were left unsupervised for lunch... yeah there were a lot of blown out voltage regulators from using our hand-built power supplies to pop capacitors in various ways and degrees of safety. What can I say, some guys just love the smell of burnt peanut butter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Did you also have the group that had competition to see who could hold hot glue the longest, wacked eachother with metal rulers held over bunsen burners, and snorted citric acid when you made sherbert?

I had some of those in my school too...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

If those kinds of things happened I wasn't around to see it.

Did have a guy do some embroidery on his palm during sewing class though (we got the kitchen sink thrown at us in middle school, was actually kind of neat). Same guy intentionally turned the oven up to max while making pretzels in home ec. Not the brightest bulb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yup. Was told clearly at the start to not plug it in to the wall sockets located just underneath us.