Faster Than Light 2012 Pcb' title='Faster Than Light 2012 Pcb' />Review 2. Audi A7 The Truth About Cars. After I went to California and induced some dude at Toyota to loan me a Hot Lava Orange Scion FR S earlier in the month, I figured Id see if Audis PR types had forgotten how I compared the R8 to my hooptiefied 9. Civic. Sure enough, Audis institutional memory proved to have some threadbare spots, and so I was able to arrange for the use of an Audi A7 for my trip to California for the Vodden the Hell Are We Doing 2. Hours of Le. Mons at Thunderhill Raceway. That meant a lot of rural highway driving, a lot of loading of race equipment into the cargo area, and exactly zero pushing the edge of the performance envelope 1. Well follow up Mr. Kareshs impressions of the A7 from last year with a few of my own. First of all, the idea of a car with a bootsplash screen when you fire it up not to mention the 1. I havent looked at the wiring diagram i. I didnt feel like spending a couple of months navigating the Audi bureaucratic labyrinth in order to avoid spending a bunch of my own cash for a shop manual, but Ill bet this car boasts plenty of multiplexed control systems. Cod Mw3 Gun Sounds there. Driver Audio Realtek For Windows 7 Ultimate. Well get back to some of the implications of this a bit later in this review, because right now I want to talk about good old fashioned switches. See, regardless of what goes between a switch and the device it controls, be it a length of wire or a digital control unit, you still have a brute force physical electrical contact that a human touch will control. The A7 has a bewildering quantity of switches available to the driver in fact, it has so many that I made bad Le. Mons drivers count them as a penalty during the race. So, what happens when schmutz gets into the switch contacts, when corrosion and normal mechanical wear take their toll a few years down the line Im not saying that Volkswagen Group products have a well documented history of electrical system glitches stretching back decades, because that gets us into anecdotal territory best explored by our readers, but the sheer number of such opportunities for failure here means that maddening electrical gremlins may crop up early on in the A7 ownership experience. Ive had a number of requests to revisit my old PCB etching technique and update it with things Ive learned since then. This is as much for my benefit as. Running Blondihacks costs a lot of time and money. Download Game Restaurant City Offline Games. If you enjoy this content, please consider giving a donation to defer a small part of the sites operating costs. I noticed that on ebay you can purchase UV curable paint for creating solder masks on your home etched PCBs, but the attached instructions that it comes with are. BU409 Charging Lithiumion. Find out how to prolong battery life by using correct charge methods. Charging and discharging batteries is a chemical reaction, but Li. Right, thats not what new car reviews are for, so lets move on. When I got this car, I was all set to make a very clever comparison between Apple and Audi, based on my observations that the crossover between owners of products from both companies is so high. However, that idea crashed like a Quadra 6. Sad Mac when I saw the head spinning complexity of this cars controls and displays take a look at about 1. Steve Jobs figured out that ordinary users of electronics e. They dont even want onoff controls, it turns out, because they dont want to learn new stuff. If Jobs had consulted on the design of this car, it would have about six controls and one big primary color gauge showing Driving Situation Quality or some such Cupertinonian metric. However, the thing that Audi products do have in common with Apple products is compelling design. The A7 is beautiful, of course just as the packaging around your new Macbook is beautiful, and it features intimidatingly correct ergonomics throughout. At this point, we need to think about the person the A7 buyer wants to be in my mind, this person is a man with cruelly small rimless glasses who works as a creative in some discipline that requires him to be conversant in the work of impenetrable philosophers like Lacan, while demonstrating insider knowledge of obscure facets of urban popular culture say, the acid house scene of Minsk. He lives in an edgy neighborhood in some unearthly expensive city Helsinki, Singapore, etc. In other words, the kind of guy who always made me feel like a total ignorant, mouth breathing schlub in grad school and even today reduces me to a state of excessive italicization. Im not saying this is what actual Audi buyers really are, any more than real world Corvette buyers match the idealized Corvette owner no, were not going there this time. Unfortunately, Audis need to reduce the level of existential terror in its target demographic while keeping the sticker price of the A7 below six figures the car I drove lists at 6. Im gonna break vibe. Say, the plastic covers that hide the unsightly hinge mechanism on the hatch 1. Not today. Still, though, we get back to that good design thing wherever one looks in the A7. These little tie downs in the cargo area would get a lot of use, were I to daily drive an A7. Yeah, sure, theyre more fragile than they need to be, but Audi seems to believe their drivers would feel that their senses had been flayed with an electrified cat o nine tails if they caught sight of some dowdy J. C. Whitney grade tie down. The cargo area beneath the hatch is usefully large in fact, I was able to fit more Le. Mons Supreme Court bribe booze in here than I was able to fit in the 1. Escalade. The power hatch was kind of neat at first, but then became utterly maddening once I realized that all opening and closing of the hatch must be done by the car, at its own pace. When I tried to close it manually and felt the car refuse to allow such manhandling, I felt shamed. Shamed like I was some gristly sunburned toothless uranium prospector in Nevada bashing the tailgate of my 6. IHC Travelall, after rinsing my bloody gums with a deep swill of generic vodka out of a plastic bottle, and a stern German engineer caught me at it and frowned sadly at the spectacle. FTL_Faster_Than_Light_Logo.jpg' alt='Faster Than Light 2012 Pcb' title='Faster Than Light 2012 Pcb' />My feelings of disapproval in the view of imaginary cold eyed German engineers just grew as the weekend with the A7 progressed, because this car knows better. For example, those who read Le. Mons Judge Magazines review of the Escalade Platinum Hybrid may recall that the Cadillac did pretty well as the mobile sound unit in the Macho Man Penalty. Not so with the A7. I cued up Macho Man on the i. Pod, made the miscreant drivers don the hats and mustaches, and began a disco dancing tour of the Thunderhill Raceway paddock. The E3. 0 driving Macho Men werent putting their hearts into it, so I did what any self respecting Le. Mons Supreme Court Judge does at that moment popped open the drivers door to harangue them. Unfortunately, the programmers of the A7 decided in the name of sicherheit that opening the drivers door should apply the parking brake, and the Macho Men ended up staggering into the Audis rear bumper. After that, the car remained bitter and resentful over my scandalous breach of common sense, ignoring the gearshifts position, turning down the music, and so on. Naturally, this got me to thinking about the mischief that could be caused by nihilistic hackers, were they to get into the A7s code well discuss those possibilities in a later post. Now that weve veered into or at least glanced off of the subject of the sound system, the A7s standard Multi Media Interface setup sounds very good and has a less frustrating interface than most systems Ive seen in my somewhat limited experience of 2. Theres less lag between input and result than in most such systems though a 1. The only real weakness is the lack of serious audio power I felt that I needed to listen to a lot of bass heavy Massive Attack to really get into the European ness of the A7, but even top volume wasnt loud enough.