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Linus Torvalds shares his personal journey learning analog electronics through guitar pedal design. Starting with kit builds, he progressed to custom PCB designs using discrete components, focusing on understanding analog circuits, power supply noise reduction, and mixed-signal design. The project evolved through four generations, moving from 1590A to 1590B enclosures, with detailed technical discussions on JFET-based input stages and component choices.

torvalds/GuitarPedal: Linus learns analog circuits

&quot;This is a personal toy project that has gone through several phases, but the common theme has been that it makes absolutely no sense outside of the very specific niche of “Linus is trying to learn random things about electronics”.
So keep that in mind: there is very little point to any of this to anybody else. Don’t expect some great useful guitar pedal experience.&quot;
This is something every engineer and developer needs to hear now and again. Not all projects needs a higher purpose. Building stuff because it’s fun and/or learning is very real and valid.

Bout time he does something new. Poor guy. Suffering on the kernel for us. Play your heart out Linus.

LEGO for adults sounds good. However I had never imagined Linus playing an electric guitar in my entire life.