{"id":1369,"date":"2026-05-10T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:07:59","slug":"something-ai-cant-do-mess-up-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Something AI can&#8217;t do: Mess up hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-11.png 676w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-11-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-12-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-12-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-12-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-12.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spent the day soldering, tried putting all 4 channels on one board. It was a terrible idea, should have used a bigger perfboard, but it made a horrible spaghetti nest of wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now Channel #1 seems broken, channel 2-4 looks kinda functional however the square wave has a tip that slants downward. My guess is that powering all 4 units requires more power than I have setup from the oscilloscope&#8217;s signal generator. When I get more time I&#8217;ll try to get an external source to power everything and re-validate 2-4. Channel #1&#8217;s issues I believe come from the silly solder bridging I attempted instead of adding another wire&#8230;another lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the day soldering, tried putting all 4 channels on one board. It was a terrible idea, should have used a bigger perfboard, but it made a horrible spaghetti nest of wires. Right now Channel #1 seems broken, channel 2-4 looks kinda functional however the square wave has a tip that slants downward. My guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}