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- Chris is headed to Australia! April 2017
- Dave has gotten himself a new office space! He’s hoping the separation of spaces (from the lab) will help inspire new lab projects.
- Facebook has a hardware lab now.
- Dave was at Maker Faire Sydney! Lots of great projects.
- Gavin talked about how Adam Savage mentions “Drawers are where tools go to die”
- Chris gave some advice for new EEs.
- It’s tough when seeing what other people do on the internet. Shitty Watercolor (from reddit) drew a cartoon to this effect.
- Dave was at an auction for a set of E4407B – 26 GHz Analyzers.
- Amateur radio isn’t quite “hip” but it is making a comeback.
- Want to build your own VNA? Check out this badass build (and OSHW files!).
- Stonehenge from Spinal Tap.
You guys are either going to have a blast or kill each-other in April 😛
On the bench/life separation, that’s a very good idea. I very much miss home at the moment – being a student is great but my bed, bench, work space, washing up and food are all within arms reach of my chair – not great for keeping things partitioned 🙂 Anyway, thanks for another fun podcast, and good luck with the trip planning.
Get someone to record you both meeting, don’t let Dave to do it after you have talked and become comfortable with each other we want to see the awkward moments. ?
Hi Dave and Chris,
Or should I say Chris as I don’t think Dave bothers to read this.
Get Dave to start restoring his C5. Upgrade the motor to a couple of high efficiency hub motors. Whack a couple of solar panels on the top and off you go… She’ll be right.
Tow
Once you’ve seen Sydney Harbour and Bondi Beach, Sydney is just like any other city. I would suggest to organise some meetups in various regional centres. Australia is a big, beautiful country and if you only see the capital cities, it would be a shame.
To say its a workout just getting to the Gym. pointless exercises LOL as 4 seeing Oz we have the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope NSW or go woomera rocket range tours in north-west South Australia, SA 450 kms NNW of Adelaide
You two have to live stream the AMP Hour with video while you’re down there. Oh and I expect one of you to be wearing a Kangaroo costume. Preferably Dave.
Regarding buying lab equipment vs renting, there was an interesting hackaday article along those lines..
http://hackaday.com/2016/08/08/in-paris-buying-a-3d-printer-is-cheaper-than-renting-machine-time/
A technical tourist option for Chris; Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, with some hiking paths nearby in the Warrumbungle National Park, recently roasted. Six hours drive from Sydney. Happy to give more detail, contact me.
no ones goin to bring up all of the QRP & QRPp (mw output power) digital modes of ham radio? Dave, there is a huge amount of hams who use low power digital modes such as qrss, JT65, WSPR, etc. No need for 50 watts, 10 watts, 5 watts, even 1 watt.. People are getting across the ocean with simple transmitters & transceivers using milliwatt output power & these digital modes. It’s a thrill! Moon bounce mode fun for terrestrial use too. oohhh baby, i love it!!
Too many busy with trying to figure out how to resurrect ham radio or how to get kids into it, etc.. lame… get on the air, or build something, or hack something. If you are not enjoying it yourself, how are those you interact with going to be inspired to do it?
shut the f*ck up & build something, that’s my personal philosophy. Y’all can do what you want though. now to follow my own advice, back to the iron.
give me a some copper clad, solder+iron & some junk electronics to pull parts from & i’m one damn happy hombre!
stay fluxy folks.7T2