Another thing I've also found shocking is how quickly the expenses can rack up. The Deutsch Autosport connectors listed in the article almost universally start at around $30-40 per connector. Heatshrink products are also very pricey, with the additional downside that if you make a mistake in the manufacturing process there is no way to re-use them once they've been cut off.
I also heavily participated in Formula SAE. Don't get too distracted by the Auto sport connectors. They are top-tier hardware, but use Deutsch DT/DTM connectors for everything. They work quite well if you're on a budget, but still want very high quality interconnects.Our team used DTM connectors for a while, before eventually migrating to Autosports.
I just wished that the DT series of connectors included some denser connectors with smaller pins. We use 13 pin/socket autosport connectors all over the vehicle just because the equivalent DTM connector takes up much more room.
Also NASA has some good resource, a couple i have links to:
Workmanship Standard for Crimping, Interconnecting... https://nepp.nasa.gov/files/27631/NSTD87394A.pdf
CABLE AND HARNESS SPLICES https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sectio...
It is easy to get lost in Eudoxia: but when you concentrate and stare at the carpet, you recognize the street you were seeking in a crimson or indigo or magenta thread which, in a wide loop, brings you to the purple enclosure that is your real destination. Every inhabitant of Eudoxia compares the carpet’s immobile order with his own image of the city, an anguish of his own, and each can find, concealed among the arabesques, an answer, the story of his life, the twists of fate.
An oracle was questioned about the mysterious bond between two objects so dissimilar as the carpet and the city. One of the two objects—-the oracle replied—-has the form the gods gave the starry sky and the orbits in which the worlds revolve; the other is an approximate reflection, like every human creation.
For some time the augurs had been sure that the carpet’s harmonious pattern was of divine origin. The oracle was interpreted in this sense, arousing no controversy. But you could, similarly, come to the opposite conclusion: that the true map of the universe is the city of Eudoxia, just as it is, a stain that spreads out shapelessly, with crooked streets, houses that crumble one upon the other amid clouds of dust, fires, screams in the darkness.
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, 1972
