Sheesh. I for one am appreciative of Jonathan for seeing this project realized in full as a PCB. It may not be as fun to verify what mic bodies, e.g., work with a prototyped PCB than to slag off the design with half-realized improvements, but Jonathan successfully brought a fully supported and documented PCB to the community. You, on the other hand, have focused your energies on demonstrating how much better insight you have to the circuit. But when members ask if they could realize your circuit as a finished PCB, you wouldn't even provide the full set of files to them, much less put in the 'grunt' work in the first post that makes a circuit / project all the more of a valuable contribution to the community. Khron, you make some great points and contributions, you've directly helped me in posts as I learn more EE, and I am grateful for that. I also recognize the significant effort it takes to fully create a project for everyone's benefit,. Criticism has a place, but when a member focuses more energy on tearing down vs. building, I think it says more about the person than the topic.
Wait, you're saying i somehow "owe" people (like you?) my "full set of files", even though Jonathan (or whoever did the board design) didn't?
Whatever criticisms i happen to have leveled are entirely pertinent and fully justified (from a technical standpoint), AND i've openly shown an example of a much simpler etch-it-yourself single-layer board.
If i really was as selfish(?) as you may or may not be implying that i am, instead of showing that, i could've opened some sort of webshop for people to buy readymade boards. But i'm not in this for the money. And yet, i should offer everyone my hard work (which, admittedly, i did as a personal challenge / passion-project) on a silver platter, instead of motivating people to, i don't know, learn a skill?
Nothing's stopping anyone from installing Eagle or KiCad, recreate my layout, print it out and etch their own boards (or have a batch fabbed in the far east).
But i still don't see why projects like this should NOT have their shortcomings pointed out (as / when applicable). Otherwise, if we blindly "worship" whatever we happen to get served, where's the incentive for progress, improvement, evolution, development of skills?
And it's double-nice that the Mouser BOM (still) contains one obsolete no-longer-available component. And FIFTY THREE euros for the components of ONE microphone??? That right there is ridiculous in itself. 10eu for one switch(!!!) that's not even on the board, 3-4eu per capacitor? Come on...
(Later edit - included the message this is a response to, in case it gets deleted or whatever)
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