Title text: A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.


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[A chart of various circuit symbols and their (mostly) fictitious meanings based off of their drawings, captioned:] Circuit Symbols

[Symbol for a switch, labelled:] Drawbridge

[Symbol for a capacitor, labelled:] Overpass

[Symbol for a connection to ground, labelled:] Pogo Stick

[Symbol for a resistor, labelled:] Earthquake

[Symbol for an inductor, labelled:] Sheep

[Symbol for a transformer, labelled:] Two Sheep in Love, Trapped on Opposite Sides of a Fence

[Symbol for a battery, labelled:] Battery

[Symbol for a battery, sorted, labelled:] Baertty

[Symbol for a battery, with far too many short lines, labelled:] Battttttttttttery

[Symbol for a photodiode, labelled:] Check Out This Really Cool Diode

[Symbol for an oscillator, labelled:] Wave Pool

[Symbol for a transistor, labelled:] Trolley Problem


15 points

Wow, if all xkcd comics could have transcripts like this one, my uninformed ass might actually get half the jokes. :D

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Check out explain xkcd then

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I’m sorry but the symbol labelled as a wave pool is not an oscillator, it’s an AC voltage source.

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Isn’t AC an oscillated DC?

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I love that the transcription has the correct labels for those of us who aren’t sparkies.

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Not sure that this transcription is useful for person with vision disabilities unfortunately, would need some description of the symbols I think

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That is a cool diode.

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This is hilarious.

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