Stock photography is a big field, and with it comes some nice photos, but also some serious stinkers.
Case in point, especially for Makers: the photo below. In it, a woman is performing a delicate operation on a circuit board using a soldering iron. At first glance, cool, nice photo. But if you hone in, you realize there’s something downright frightening about her soldering technique. Rather than holding the iron by its insulated handle, this woman is grabbing onto the heated element, which if turned on, would be at a bit over 600ºF.
via Make and Boing Boing
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Yep that would hurt! You see this on tv shows often.
There’s also a current TV add for an electronics school( not DevryUniv ) were the highly trained student puts the ohmmeter leads across a buzzers mounting screws.
Wait, you don’t always pre-emptively probe for back EMF on buzzer mounting screws? How do you verify that your buzzer will have zero DC offset? Seems irresponsible to me… 🙂
No ESD wrist strap, or static mat. Looks like she’s melting that PCI connector, too. Hopefully there’s a fume extractor just out of frame…