Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home
- When working on my latest book, The Secret Life of Circuits, I wanted to keep the artwork real.
- My beef with the diagrams in popular electronics textbooks and online tutorials is that most of them are fake.
- At best, they’re retraced from ancient texts; at worst, they’re sketched from memory and can be charitably described as “inspired by true events”:An assortment of V-I plots for diodes, collected on the internet.
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- When working on my latest book, The Secret Life of Circuits, I wanted to keep the artwork real.
- My beef with the diagrams in popular electronics textbooks and online tutorials is that most of them are fake.
- At best, they’re retraced from ancient texts; at worst, they’re sketched from memory and can be charitably described as “inspired by true events”:An assortment of V-I plots for diodes, collected on the internet.
Sources: Substack