Title text: A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
::: spoiler Transcript [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 :::
12 Comments
rynzcycle@kbin.social · 52 pts · 2y
I love that the transcription has the correct labels for those of us who aren't sparkies.
Jakylla@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 2y
Not sure that this transcription is useful for person with vision disabilities unfortunately, would need some description of the symbols I think
TWeaK@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
That is a cool diode.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Wow, if all xkcd comics could have transcripts like this one, my uninformed ass might actually get half the jokes. :D
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
Check out explain xkcd then
omgarm@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 2y
It's been a while since I had electronics in Uni but this seems accurate.
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Don't worry, someone will eventually come and tell you that it isn't.
meatand2veg@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 2y
I could resist the urge... But... Uh... The transcript incorrectly labels the symbol for capacitor, it's actually the NEMA symbol for a contactor.
E: Had to make sure I wasn't putting my foot in my mouth. Capacitor symbol is extremely similar, but the right side needs to be bent like a parentheses for it to be a capacitor like -|(-
Contortion@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y
I'm getting the urge to listen to Metallica
xuxebiko@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
This is hilarious.
deliverator05@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
I'm sorry but the symbol labelled as a wave pool is not an oscillator, it's an AC voltage source.
AgnosticMammal@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y
Isn't AC an oscillated DC?
deliverator05@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y