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- Dave’s identity was stolen
- Sneakers
- Hackers
- Open Hardware Summit
- Supercon
- Humble indicator LED
- Mike’s smallest LED flasher
- Flashing light prize
- Macrofab contest
- Supercap
- Blinking LED
- Digikey changed UI
- Chris started selling on Tindie
- “the moore’s law of ecommerce”
- Aliexpress stuff
- Power supply panel
- Official stores on Aliexpress
- Discussion about creating footprints in CAD (centroid)
- Old CAD packages are referenced to pin 1
- Snap grid is never referenced to the grid
- ESP32 example
- The 74HC00 footprint we discussed
- Open Parts Library
- KiCad Digikey Library
- Locally cached libraries?
- sci.tech.electronics
- Internal part numbers
- Tronnort software 14 pin chip analyzer
- TRON – Trace On
- eCommerce ruined the need for chip harvesting
- RPi 3 with PoE video
- PoE uses 48V
- Official explanation (might not be right?)
- Dave just posted the video from the 2nd EEVblog meetup
- Indiana Jones in the bunker
- Solar Observatory, white sands
- Carl Sagan – Contact
- Yasuka Maezawa is taking 8 artists to the moon with him on the SpaceX BFR
- Cody wants to go
Chris, with regards to blowing up USB, sounds like you should get a USB isolator. Though most only seem to cope with USB Fast (12Mbit/s) -> https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-usb-isolator.html?SearchText=usb+isolator
Like Dave I’ve also been using Aliexpress a lot more lately. Mainly for parts that I use in the kits I sell, things like LEDs, switches, push buttons, cables and board modules. I’m also using Alibaba, but I find it to be less of a store and more of a place to connect with manufactures. So for things that are larger quantities and maybe something slightly custom I go to Alibaba. For shipping internationally I’ve never had trouble with DHL and from China to the US they have always met their schedule and sometimes are a day early.
I’m hoping Dave will share his experience with the inspection microscope he is getting from Aliexpress, I’ve been thinking of getting a new one myself.
Chris – Best of luck with your Tindie store. The advantage Tindie has over other places I’ve sold is that people go to Tindie looking for electronics type projects. Versus something like eBay where they have everything in the world.
On the topic of connecting to the USB on a laptop. I always use a USB hub when connecting a development board or a board that I’ve created to my laptop. My hope is that if something goes wrong it will kill the USB hub instead of my laptop. I did have a development board once that had been damaged and the hub just current limited and shut it off.