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- Chris was at Maker Faire last weekend and will be at the Open Hardware Summit this week.
- Jim Williams app note 28 about thermocouples
- Dave is still investigating the LT3780 among other chips.
- The PC/104 standard was before Arduino or other modern dev boards. Dave has been playing around with one he found in his collection. This uses the ISA bus standard.
- The early ones Dave developed on had a 386.
- These ran DOS programs. Dave often ran Novell DOS.
- The best ones had “disk on chip” from m-systems
- Chris was impressed with the shrunk down System on Module (OSD355x) that’s on the Beagle Pocket.
- We’ve had Jason Kridner on the show before but will hopefully chat with him again soon.
- Gene Kranz was a NASA flight director. Gene Frantz did the Speak and Spell and helped found Octavo systems
- Two fish were in a tank
- Bart Dring (formerly of Inventables) built some crazy robots for a local Chicago meetup.
- Andrew Witte (CTO of Pebble) was formerly on the show
- Working on Pebble taught Eric Micgovsky about hardware.
- Gerry from Civionics
- Former guest Zach Dunham (who works at Kickstarter) has a new podcast called The Prepared.
- AvE did a video about the BioLite charger/stove and using conformal coating on it.
possibly a very stupid question… whats the advantage of the OSD355x over the part used on the Pi Zero in terms of ease of integration (not performance)? Is n’t that as well a system on chip? Is it sourcing or the footprint?
Most definitely the sourcing. It’s nigh impossible to source the Broadcom part on the Raspberry Pi. As for just designing in the board, the RPi foundation discourages this, because it’s meant as an accessible educational tool, not a low cost platform for designing a linux machine into a system. This is what the “Compute” module was meant to address but you’ll note that’s a much higher cost.