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#364 – The Endless Y2K

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  • Longtime HP/Agilent/Keysight engineer John Kenny showed up at Dave’s lab to chat for a bit
  • Dave has tasked David with setting up a new EEVblog meetup.
  • Bootloader on the 121GW
  • Konami code
  • Never trust an engineer with a clean workbench
  • Dave has room to set up a Pick an Place kit, the liteplacer
  • MacroFab is opening a new facility in Mexico. Chris talked about this more on the Macrofab podcast.
  • Chris signed himself up for some manufacturing pain this week when his 0402 boards come back
  • OpenGL mode in KiCad

 

  • Mike Harrison is making the Superconference badge
  • The Krack vulnerability
  • Our favorite twitter account is back at it again:

i don’t understand why tesla thought requiring internet on a giant fucking battery glued to your wall was a good idea pic.twitter.com/CAoO7NPcRd

— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) October 17, 2017

  • Snake plissken 666 in Escape from LA
  • Should IoT devices self terminate? Dave was going to 555 circuit that kills itself
  • Dave and David are looking at making a custom LCD for the uSupply.
  • Babelfish headphones!
  • The Woz is starting an educational site called WozU
  • Circuit Python 2.1 is out!
  • Is the C language dying? Nope!

Image credit: Matthew Hurst

Comments

  1. Panic Mechanic says

    October 23, 2017 at 7:33 am

    Ask bigclivedotcom to be a guest on the show, please.

    • dmalhar says

      October 23, 2017 at 10:29 pm

      Yes please

  2. DAVID HARMS says

    October 30, 2017 at 7:40 pm

    EDA summery on if you can’t afford altium designer. Chris: kicad, Dave:circuit studio?

    A different twist to the EDA question. As a hobbiest what package helps give you the the experience needed to best get through a job interview or getting a “professional gig”. Or does it matter?

    • Chris Gammell says

      October 30, 2017 at 8:07 pm

      Depends if it’s consulting or at a company. I think if you’re early in your career, they’ll be flexible and just be impressed you’ve created actual hardware. So learning whatever they use (Allegro, for instance) will take time and they’ll expect that. Later in your career, they might expect you already have experience in a tool, but that will be listed in the job rec anyway.

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