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The PCB Designer's Nightmare

The PCB Designer's Nightmare
The eternal battle between PCB designers and the electronics engineers demanding impossible specs! HDI (High-Density Interconnect) technology might be cool in theory, but this meme is the silent scream of every circuit board designer who's been asked to cram 60 layers into a board thinner than a potato chip. When engineers request "3+N+3 stackup with blind microvias" (allegedly invented by "evil wizards"), they're essentially asking for circuit board magic that defies the laws of physics. It's like asking a chef to bake a soufflé in a microwave while blindfolded! The meme perfectly captures that moment when the PCB designer's soul leaves their body after hearing "Hello I would like 60 layers please" - as if they're ordering a sandwich, not a complex electronic component that requires actual physical space to exist! 🔥

Design A Real Board, Ya Bum

Design A Real Board, Ya Bum
The classic engineering dad vs. PCB designer showdown. In electronics, a proper circuit board typically needs 4+ layers for signal integrity, power planes, and ground isolation. This poor soul bragging about his 2-layer designs is like showing up to CERN with a potato battery. The father's reaction is every senior engineer who's had to fix a junior's "simplified" design that inevitably causes electromagnetic interference across three counties.

The LER (Light Emitting Resistor)

The LER (Light Emitting Resistor)
Behold, the rare LER in its natural habitat—a resistor that decided career limitations were for lesser components. When your circuit design is so flawed that your resistor starts emitting light, you've either discovered a new physics phenomenon or you're about to file an insurance claim. That burning glow isn't innovation; it's what electrical engineers call "thermal runaway," or as we say in the lab, "time to update your resume." Next week on National Geographic: The migration patterns of smoke particles from your circuit board.

Pain Makes The Electrons Go Faster

Pain Makes The Electrons Go Faster
The eternal struggle between engineers and PCB designers in one beautiful bell curve. In the middle, we have the reasonable engineer desperately pleading for 6 layers to make a functional printed circuit board. Meanwhile, at both extremes of the IQ distribution, we find the geniuses (or idiots?) confidently claiming they can do it in just 2 layers. This is electrical engineering's version of the Dunning-Kruger effect – where the truly incompetent and the legitimate savants arrive at the same conclusion through wildly different paths. One will create a rat's nest of copper traces that violates every design rule in existence; the other will produce an elegant masterpiece of minimalist engineering that somehow works flawlessly. The true pain comes when the project manager sides with the 2-layer crowd because "it's cheaper" and then wonders why the board keeps failing EMC testing...

The Engineering Food Chain

The Engineering Food Chain
Nothing quite captures the engineering hierarchy like watching a veteran mechanical engineer reduced to a 3D printing servant. Left panel: Fresh-faced electrical engineer with the audacity of youth. Right panel: The hollow-eyed mechanical engineer who's seen it all, now spending a decade of expertise printing boxes because someone couldn't be bothered to route cables properly. This is the circle of engineering life - where expertise meets arbitrary design changes at 4pm on a Friday. The mechanical engineer's soul has left the chat, while the electrical engineer blissfully creates problems for others to solve. Engineering collaboration at its finest!

What It Feels Like To Include An Electrical Engineer In Your Project

What It Feels Like To Include An Electrical Engineer In Your Project
The eternal battle between perfectionism and practicality! Electrical engineers sobbing uncontrollably at the mere suggestion of using pre-made solutions while the rest of the engineering world casually drops in an Arduino and calls it a day. The electrical engineer's soul is physically wounded by the thought of not designing custom PCB boards from scratch—it's like suggesting a gourmet chef use instant ramen. Meanwhile, other engineers are living their best lives in plug-and-play paradise. This is why project timelines mysteriously triple whenever an EE joins the team!