I’m just wildly guessing. By “English bus” do you mean a double decker?
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Got a Mouser order in… anyone need some SMD tl074’s? 
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I notice that the French Wikipedia article appears to say the double-decker aka “imperial bus” was invented in France, while the English one says it was invented in England. I checked a few more articles, but they only listed where they’re used, so much less entertaining.
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I think I already have some I can’t use…
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yes that was my idea, i didn’t know that his name was a Double decker, i made a french/english traduction word by word.
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Sad: Connecting the tuning pots on your VCO backwards
Really sad: Not noticing until two days later
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ALIEXPRESS SENT ME 557s INSTEAD OF 2N904S AND I DIDNT CHECK THE PINOUTS AND USED THEM ANYWAY, TURNS OUT THEY’RE BACKARDS AND I USED THEM EVERYWHERE GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
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I tried to use my phone to record music on synthizer, what I didn’t think about was it would record itself too. What a mess. Every tone is doubled or tribled, but the worst thing is the slight delay. What I get for being absolute cheap skate and not thinking things through.
Still better than the synthizer, since I still haven’t found a way to record bass and rythm(gonna love when old advanced things don’t have a manual).I feel like I am vandalizing it slowly, because I am (mentally 5 year old) child trying every button, and smashing random keys for fun.
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But thats this hobby though. 
Maybe you can turn down the media volume? That is, if you dont like the doubling.
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My drone worked! For… one second. Then it developed a very… hot… smell…
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True, it is the hobby, hahah.
Is there a dumbassery badge we get for posting in this thread? 
I was so proud of myself for getting my first set of SMT components on my board for an STM32 Nucleo based ADSR generator project I’m working on:
But… finished it up and plugged it and blew up a Nucleo board… what?!
Double checked all the power/ground connections, no shorts, nothing weird happening there - checked the rest of the circuit - weirdness from the STM32 DAC out to the S&H chips.
Turns out, I’d breadboarded this thing with LF398s in DIP8 and drew up the schematic from that. But as I was laying out the board, to try and get clever and keep size down I switched the footprint to SOIC14.
Don’t really know what I was expecting - the TL074 DIP and SOIC have the same pin out, but it’s not the case for the LF398. What I ended up with was the DAC pin of the nucleo connected to the -ve supply pin of the three S&H ICs - things get hot and then - bang - no more nucleo.
So there you have it, my entry into the hall of dumbassery. It’s not the first time, and I doubt it’ll be the last.
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When you think you’re sly and buy 100 jacks from tayda to save money. The nuts and washers aren’t installed…
because you don’t get any nuts or washers…
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ah nutz ! 
post must be blah,blah,blah …
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Contact their customer support. They have helped me in the past.
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Yes, that’s an error, I got the nuts and washers every time.
In separate bags, and that’s great, because I didn’t find a way to install the jacks with the nuts on 
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Not dumbassery but non-fluency. Most of us don’t write Chinese very well.
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