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- Contextual Electronics is up and running! You can still join in the “audit” tier, if interested.
- Chinese New Year is coming, affecting production for many electronics companies.
- Dave enjoyed the NSA gadget catalog (even though Chris and Greg Charvat talked about it 3 episodes ago!). It reminds Dave of the movie “Enemy of the State“.
- Dave’s kickstarter is starting to ship out. In fact, his next round of boards is at the assembly house, run by a project backer/EEVblog fan.
- Chris is super jazzed about the beta version of Circuit Hub Fabrication.
- Dave got one of the first uArm Robots! Looks like a fun new gadget!
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4V1xPHL804[/tube] - The cost of testing can impact the overall price of your project. Designing with decent tolerance parts can help remove the need to (extensively) test.
- Google bought Nest for $3.2B. What the hell?
- Nest actually acts as a wifi host in order to configure getting it onto your home network. New devices aim to be “point and connect”.
- Wiki paged containing a list of companies Google has bought. Nest was the second biggest behind Motorola Mobility, the cellphone division (for $12.5B)
- Is this all just a money scheme for big VCs? It’s crazy to think how much money is pushed around. And that’s not all…CEOs in silicon valley conspired to keep wages down.
- Dilbert attempts to explain why wages stagnate.
- The new film Jobs was a bit of an dramatic exaggeration. Woz spoke out about it on Google+. He’s also working on a script of the events from his perspective.
Thanks to Alpha for the picture of the cuckoo clocks
The networking, ‘internet of things’ portion of Nest isn’t anything new..
The Koubachi plant sensor was around before Nest, and also uses an AP/Ad-hoc network to configure itself the first time.
I guess gambling 3billion that this takes off and leads to bigger and better things is what Google is counting on.
Yeeessssssss!!!!!!!, google acquisition of Nest is a money laundry operation. Can’t be other thing.
I was so relieved when Dave said that, and not my personal conspiranoia.
Some taxes and creative accounting has to be going on, suppose you save 10% in taxes on the 3 billion putting it as corporate fusion/acquisition instead of pure profit -> you save 300 million; you give 10% of it = 30 million to Nest people and done!!!; you have saved 270 million and introduce to money back in US legally tax-free!!!!
Where that money comes from?: here->
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/google-revenues-sheltered-in-no-tax-bermuda-soar-to-10-billion.html
Ok, I don’t know shit about economy, or money laundry operations; just my personal-whitout proof- opinion. But it seems to me more plausible than the official history.
Cheers