{"id":17195,"date":"2016-10-20T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=17195"},"modified":"2021-06-16T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:50:06","slug":"101-ways-to-use-the-pcb-ruler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/101-ways-to-use-the-pcb-ruler\/","title":{"rendered":"101 Ways to Use the PCB Ruler"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PCB Ruler<\/a>. It can frustrate us, assist us, and accidentally slice us. But at the end of the day\u00a0it\u00a0always\u00a0helps\u00a0us measure things. It has three places in its heart for our Pmods<\/a>, and one big place in its heart for us.<\/p>\n

Recently Jay took us through<\/a> his journey of acceptance regarding this\u00a0useful little device, so today I thought I would take it even further and list out the rulers’ many uses in the hope that more people share his epiphany.\"img_7846-702x336\"<\/p>\n

So without further ado, I present 101 uses for the PCB Ruler! <\/strong><\/p>\n

(And by 101 I maybe mean 18, but hey who is counting? I am profiling a ruler, not a calculator.)
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Like its circuit board counterparts, its connections are softly wrapped in copper, surrounded by a swampy-green tinted fiberglass epoxy resin. But it doubles as a ruler, and triples as a Pmod<\/a>-friendly PCB circuit board<\/a>. It quadruples as… what’s that you say? Anything? Here are some of the most useful uses for our PCB Ruler, in convenient order from least-useful uses to most-useful uses:<\/p>\n