This PD analyzer project looks very slopcoded, but if they do a decent job validating its protocol implementation against real-world devices I think this could be a really neat tool both for debugging and for product validation:
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@gsuberland @jaseg these could also come from a computational camera (as in, a shitty modern phone camera). But yea, the routing and placement style is odd at least
@janamarie @jaseg they could, but there are other cases like traces ringing into the trace they join, leaving a weird ridge, which the camera enhancements don't tend to do but which generative systems do.
@gsuberland @jaseg yea, noticed that too, right of the QFN package, right?
@janamarie @gsuberland @jaseg not just right, also bottom, it's a mess everywhere.
@f4grx @janamarie @gsuberland @jaseg Interesting enough it does seem to physically exist, including the peculiar layout.
EEVblog had it featured on their second channel: https://youtu.be/rA-N_Jd24kw and as part of a mailbag video it seems. Sounded like they received it unsolicited.
Dr. PD - USB-C Open Source Protocol Analyzer
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@f4grx @janamarie @gsuberland @jaseg
It seems to have opened up on CrowdSupply for USD 389… wow. 🙄
Yeah, naaaaaaaah. I'm going to look at the Glasgow Interface Explorer revD that @whitequark and @cmb are cooking up.
@tbr @f4grx @gsuberland @jaseg @whitequark @cmb yea +1 on supporting awesome projects that are handcrafted with love! Fuck the genAI crowd
@janamarie @tbr @f4grx @gsuberland @whitequark @cmb Oh yikes, that's expensive for what it is. I mean, making hardware isn't cheap but that thing looks like maybe 20$ in components. There's nothing fancy in there, just some basic analog parts and a nice-ish integrated current monitor.
