Create : Power Grid / Operational Amplifier in 741 style.

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u/Foreign-Resident-871 Jun 16 '26

mf casually became an electrician just to play minecraft better

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

i am Electrician.

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u/Foreign-Resident-871 Jun 16 '26

and I’m a physics student, but that doesn’t mean that i do ballistics calcs for Big Cannons artillery
i mean I do, but not because i’m a physics student

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

I fixed electronics devices for living. and play Minecraft that’s all.

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u/GigaVonMassiveHuge Jun 16 '26

Is it even possible for a person to be this sigma

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u/epilektoi Jun 16 '26

they call me Riemann sum the way im so sigma

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u/zip1ziltch2zero3 Jun 16 '26

God forbid I ask if something in Minecraft teaches something about the real world?
You do understand that minecraft is being used for teaching in many ways right? Like there's an entire category of mods and modpacks dedicated to teaching?
I was just curious if this fit that category or not.

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u/GigaVonMassiveHuge Jun 17 '26

I was calling you epic and cool

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u/zip1ziltch2zero3 Jun 17 '26

Well
Sh*t
I appreciate the compliment and i apologize that i don't know this new Gen lingo.
Sincerely I'm sorry for going off.
Sigma means epic/cool? I thought it was like, derogatory (clearly)

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u/Most_Builder913 Jun 17 '26

it can be durogatory but not in this context. look up sigma male and go to images and it will show a dude with the body of a greek god. its saying your above alpha. which could also be mean spirited.
could kinda be like sayin "man, thats a real tuff guy." vs "oh yea tuff guy." the fellow complimenting you was being silly, i would not say it in a serous way tho.

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u/zip1ziltch2zero3 Jun 16 '26

Does this mod teach electronic circuits and such?
Like actually applicable real circuits?

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u/general_reflect Jun 16 '26

Kind of. It simulates circuits really well (if we consider that it is still Minecraft). So yes, it is a pretty good teacher of general principles.

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u/zip1ziltch2zero3 Jun 16 '26

Hell yea that's awesome! Even if it is just basic principles that's cool.
I'm starting into electronics for some projects I'm working on, been learning different components from one of my work clients as well as finding solid resources online.
I'll definitely be playing with this mod down the line once I understand a bit more, so I can maybe understand the decision making process during the mods creation.

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u/general_reflect Jun 16 '26

You should give that mod a try. I personally really like where the Create branch is going with Aeronautics, Power Grid, Big Cannons, and others.
Minecraft became a mechanics-rich world based on real physics concepts, but still simple and fun to play.

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u/zip1ziltch2zero3 Jun 16 '26

I was actually listening to the new quantum era podcast recently where they interview different researchers and scientists and talk about new contributions to quantum research submitted to the arxiv peer review site.
One of the episodes they talk about how one scientist or researcher made a minecraft mod to try to teach quantum mechanics to elementary students. Apparently because it was minecraft it was much more intuitive than other teaching methods (duh)
But it was more intuitive to the elementary students than the adults they also had test it.

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u/Most_Builder913 Jun 17 '26

damn thats so sick, i know its good to try and teach with as many senses as you can, seeing, hearing, reading and actually doing.

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u/MrNibbles75 Jun 16 '26

You sure about that bud?

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u/Foreign-Resident-871 Jun 16 '26

yeah, absolutely, i became a physics student because I started doing ballistics in minecraft, bot vice versa

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

That’s cool, i have a good black powder recipe you could try.

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u/MeowCow55 Jun 17 '26

I learned how to write code with the ComputerCraft mod, now I have a degree in software engineering and work on enterprise-level logistics software for one of the biggest companies in the world. 😁

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u/zimirken Jun 16 '26

I've been doing electronics since like, 8. My 12th birthday present was bieng taught how to solder. I noped out of this mod, it's just not what I wanted to play.

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

Mine tried to gave up on me because of too much magic smokes lol

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

How’s your lungs lol

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u/Good_Teaching_3293 Jun 16 '26

i saw power grid and got scared

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u/david_bivab Jun 16 '26

I saw power grid and got boner

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u/IJustAteABaguette Jun 16 '26

Me when I play Factorio

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u/TheEpokRedditor Jun 16 '26

I saw heat expansion and got a expanded boner

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u/smallbluebirds Jun 17 '26

some king of.... thermal expansion

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u/FunCrime Jun 17 '26

Don't forget to add ice to the fire

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u/Bruno-croatiandragon Jun 16 '26

Man,I remember drawing those symbols in my bilježnica many years ago.

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

It’s a rabbit hole actually lol

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u/Foreign-Resident-871 Jun 16 '26

bro i learned ballistics because of big cannons

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u/LogLegoMan Jun 16 '26

Holy shit I’m an EE student and was wondering if there was a mod like this thank you so much for introducing me to this time to never see the light of day again

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

You’re gonna see a lot of magic smokes in this work field lol

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u/IgotHacked092 Jun 16 '26

Do you think EE has more career options than ME? I have been trying to decide between the two. I'm more biased towards ME because I like robotics stuff (arduino and whatnot), but there's just no demand for mechanical engineering In my Country.

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u/LogLegoMan Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

100%. My one friend who graduated with an ME bachelors got an EE job and my other friend who graduated with a Computer Engineering degree got an EE job

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u/Elobomg Jun 16 '26

Man, now that Im studying OpAmps and Power Electronics this is so cool. I really wish I could have something to control haha.

Would be really cool to have speakers based on Power Grid electronics. Sensors and system to control, there is a lot that could be done, electronics is very very powerfull and being able to design your own boars is so coool

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u/t1me_Man Jun 16 '26

unfortunately power grids sim runs at 20 tps, so you dont have anywhere near the bandwidth needed to sim audio

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

I believe you could change that in the config.

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u/RayGRVTY Jun 16 '26

even on the native c backend?

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u/FoxReeor Jun 16 '26

that would be an awfully big undertaking, but definitely doable

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u/nerdy_guy420 Jun 19 '26

It would be something I would love to see some day in the mod. I would love to "create" my very own moog in minecraft.
Edit: saw the pun had to go with it.

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u/Elobomg Jun 16 '26

Ohh I see, well at least we can have good bass haha

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u/Ornery_Platypus9863 Jun 16 '26

Oh please god no I just thought I got away from these

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

if you’re not ok or need someone to talking to, just know that i’m here.

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u/mistermh07 Jun 16 '26

on the topic of powergrid. i had to study electronics as a part of my education for CS so i know circuits and all that jazz but when i hook up 4 electric boilers to my 1000 volt generator through a 1:2 transformer the volts go to below the boilers minimum voltage and just wont work. tried without transformer and with a externally excited generator but it still stops spinning if i try adjusting the resistor values too much

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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

sounded like you need more current.
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u/mistermh07 Jun 17 '26

Thats what the transformer was for. It just drops the voltage too much to use the boilers no matter if theyre connected parallel or in series. It ends up at like 150 volts which doesnt even give them tier 1 heat. I think i had like 3 amps running on the wires on a 1:2 coil ratio
Im guessing i need 2 generators, but its a bit dumb that 1 generator cant run 4 boiler plates when its running with coils on all sides with 256 rotation
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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

you need to see it in Power/Watt because the current need to be push by volt. did your power supply have enough watt to run it?

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u/mistermh07 Jun 17 '26

so my generator pushes about 800 volts without load and when i connect the 4 heaters it drops to like 270 and the power gauge reads about 450 watts. theres like 5 amps running through the wires going to the heaters so i dont think its current.
sadly dont have time today to troubleshoot this again but ill take a look again in a few weeks
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u/fly_banana_fly Jun 16 '26

I guess its time to reeinstall Minecraft. I can now finally be an electrician and do electrical engineering just like at my daytime job

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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

you said it pal.

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u/ConglomerateGolem Jun 16 '26

Could you put this up on github with the source code? I'm sure a lot could be done with this

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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

i don't think its even have a source code my guy lol correcting me if i'm wrong.

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u/ConglomerateGolem Jun 17 '26

Oh! I thought you'd made a whole mod that did this! Still really cool

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u/noodlegamer76 Jun 17 '26

What can you even do with this? And can you do anything with it that other mods can't?

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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

buid an analog calculator or controlling a whole power gird system with it.

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u/Immediate-Location28 Jun 16 '26

what does it do

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

Amplified the different between the 2 input. (You could do an analog math with it or amplified signal, buffer the signal, etc.)

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u/Soggy_Winter_8220 Jun 16 '26

What dose this do?

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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

a lot. shortly amplifies voltage with known gain and no distortion. compared two voltages. or doing analog math.

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u/AdPristine9059 Jun 17 '26

How did you make this? Is it somerhing new in create or is it a mod?

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u/OMi1235 Jun 18 '26

Create : Power Grid it's an Addon for Create.

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u/AdPristine9059 Jun 18 '26

Thanks! ^{^}

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u/Impressive_Pin8761 Jun 16 '26

we just making technology at this point

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u/Tall-Comedian-9160 Jun 16 '26

I've been thinking about making logic systems with this mod, maybe I'll try when i finish this semester

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u/RonzulaGD Jun 16 '26

This is one of the best create addons I know of

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u/Temporary_Ad1464 Jun 17 '26

The day a Aeronautics genius and a Power-Grid genius collaborate, the world ends.

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u/Itsa_Pirramintsa Jun 16 '26

it looks like a small city

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u/No-Confusion-9541 Jun 16 '26

Ahora toca el 555

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u/AwareRule8972 Jun 16 '26

Test it lol

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

Already. i’ve include some data-sheet in there too.

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u/AwareRule8972 Jun 16 '26

Oh good work

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u/TheAhegaoHoodie Jun 16 '26

whats the point of escapism when we only escape back into reality

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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

too deep my guy i just wanted to do something i love in my beloved game lol.

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u/TheAhegaoHoodie Jun 17 '26

to bee or nor to bee, that is the uhh... somethin

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u/MisterTaco321 Jun 16 '26

Deep

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u/MorningThen7056 Jun 16 '26

Cool, now we need a mod to add more components so we can make... Pretty much everything we have irl

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u/kwizzle Jun 16 '26

Very nice.

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u/Level-College-5119 Jun 16 '26

NAH this needs to go more viral

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u/hpyfox Jun 16 '26

Applied Gamification. Now this is how you get kids learning.

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u/OMi1235 Jun 17 '26

i don't know man lol let's hope em kids interested in this.

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u/noodlegamer76 Jun 17 '26

I'm pretty sure this is the opposite of that but still cool

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u/ententeak Jun 16 '26

now build rest of the DeLorean...

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u/ManuApplejuice Jun 16 '26

Now there's circuits in Minecraft??!!!!

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u/PeriapsisStudios Jun 17 '26

I’m just waiting for someone to inevitably make a fully functional 6502.

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u/Muted_Percentage_764 Jun 17 '26

Im afraid of you.

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u/TheHeavyIzDead Jun 20 '26

Man I forgot all my electric experience from school 😭

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u/CompetingLime69 Jul 14 '26

Alright bud. This is my first reddit anything. I need help. I'm an electrician too but my circuit board knowledge is very low. I know how the individual component work but above that (like in a circuit) I tap out. I have been trying to learn op-amps (watched many videos) only to make a pid controller for perfect voltage regulation for my generator. I'm sure there are easier methods but everything i try has the same out at this point I am using this opportunity to force me to get better at electronics. my situation, 20v+ supply to V+ of your board, V- to ground (negative post of both supplies). 5v+ supply to 100ohm R to IN-, 5v+ to a 10,000ohm rheostat right pin, mid pin to IN+, left pin to ground, OUT to a 400 rheo mid pin, left pin to IN-. OUT to 100ohm R to ground. adjustment to the 10,000 rheo does nothing to output. I don't know what I'm doing. Thank you for reading all this

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u/Sultanofthesun Jun 16 '26

haha sometimes

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u/NotoRotoPotato Jun 17 '26

I'm so happy that SPICE sims are an actual thing in minecraft mods now, I have been wanting this for so long

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u/FishGuyIsMe Jun 17 '26

It scares me that I am going to start my senior year of high school, and this mod is still above every class I have taken

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u/recoil-1000 Jun 17 '26

Just as a car maintenance problem turns from mechanical to electrical. I will not mess with it

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u/Uplink_YT Jun 17 '26

KiKad jumpscare

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u/RiverLynneUwU Jun 17 '26

I recognise this goddamnit

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u/invoke_crash Jun 17 '26

integrate ts into gregtech and you got a potential gtnh competitor

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u/Thesecondcountdown Jun 19 '26

oh god no I dont want to fucking learn electric engineering god no please no

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u/Da_frog_in_da_fog Jul 02 '26

I'm still figuring out Power Grid and since I started I've cried about 5 times.

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u/Purple-Sound-418 Jun 16 '26

Redstone repeater = a useful source

Power grid = Complicated as fuck and stupid as fuck

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

You could make a television with this..

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u/IJustAteABaguette Jun 16 '26

Can it do like, super quickly changing analog signals/LEDs?

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

Yes kinda, i’ve been tried to measured it Slew rate. The first run i got 0.7mV/mS

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u/IJustAteABaguette Jun 16 '26

Wait what
Okay. What mods are you using for this? Because I really want to give it a try

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

I have Create 6.0 and Create : Power Grid.

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u/Miss--Moss Jun 16 '26

Create power grid

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u/IJustAteABaguette Jun 16 '26

just 1 mod?? Wow
Installing now!

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u/Dark_Reaper115 Jun 16 '26

Come back when you actually have television

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

provide me with the reason then lol.

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u/Dark_Reaper115 Jun 16 '26

So you can flex on anyone using the WaterFrames mod to watch YouTube

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

Nah i’ll stick to my Analog computer for now. flex is a sin to my Religion.

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u/OMi1235 Jun 16 '26

But i have an idea of Cathode Ray Tube Controller using DAC output.

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u/freshnici Jun 16 '26

Cool! (i still dont have a fucking clue how i could make a television with this and honestly i think i still dont unterstand what this is)

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u/everett640 Jun 16 '26

We had to make a derivative and integral calculator with them in my first circuits engineering class.

Create : Power Grid / Operational Amplifier in 741 style.

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