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Documentation Improvement: Replace Coins with Rulers

Open martinvahi opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

The size of coins is understandable, intuitive, only to those people, who use the coins. An "average" European probably does not know, ho big the Chinese coins or the Japanese coins are. People from outside of Europe probably do not have an intuitive understanding, how big the various Euro-coins are.

The fix: when creating new photos, use a plain ruler in stead of coins and write the units of the ruler with a marker on the ruler.

May be one option might be that the "1cm" reference line or square might be added to the PCB silkscreen graphics of newly designed PCBs.

martinvahi avatar Sep 05 '18 17:09 martinvahi

Good point! I will use a credit card next time ;-)

Now seriously, next time I'll try to use a ruler that has both cm and inches, or even a calibrated mat.

Cheers, Carlos

CarlosGS avatar Sep 05 '18 17:09 CarlosGS

I wonder, what the unit might be, if we were to create photos for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

Just telling that our ruler has units of "cm" says nothing to the aliens at other galaxies.

martinvahi avatar Sep 05 '18 17:09 martinvahi

Definitely not a coin. Haha.

CarlosGS avatar Sep 05 '18 17:09 CarlosGS

...cryptocoin with Earthly crypto that the aliens can easily crack with their quantum computers :-D

martinvahi avatar Sep 05 '18 19:09 martinvahi