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01 — The Problem

A bag of parts isn't an education.

Most electronics kits ship with a bill of materials and a pinout diagram. If something goes wrong, you're on your own. If you want to understand the circuit, you're searching forums at midnight. That's the problem MSD was built to solve.

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Annotated schematic
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Every component explained
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Engineer who built it

02 — The Documentation

Every component has a reason.

Each MSD kit ships with a full engineering design guide — schematics with annotations, component selection rationale, and signal flow walkthroughs. Not a pinout. An actual design document, written by the engineer who designed the circuit.

design-guides.md

R1 sets Vref via a voltage divider. 10k balances current draw against noise — go lower and you waste power, go higher and the ADC input floats.

Discrete ADC Design Guide

The I²C clock stretching on this sensor means you can't bit-bang the bus — the master has to release SCL and wait for the slave to pull it low.

I²C Playground Design Guide

The op-amp's gain-bandwidth product limits how fast the feedback loop can correct. At unity gain this stage handles 1 MHz — more than enough for audio.

OpAmp Template Design Guide

03 — The Depth

Real circuits. Not toys.

Op-amp stages, ADCs, I²C buses — our kits live in the interesting territory where most learning materials stop short. No Arduino wrappers. No simplified abstractions. The real thing, documented properly.

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Op-Amp Stages
Gain, filtering, active rectification
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ADC / DAC
Discrete conversion, no black-box ICs
Mixed
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I²C / SPI Buses
Register-level protocol walkthroughs
Digital
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STM32 Firmware
Bare-metal C, HAL, peripheral config
MCU

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