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#412 – 3 Cent Micros And 1000s of LEDs

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Welcome back, Mike Harrison of Mike’s Electric Stuff!

This week Mike joins Dave to talk about LEDs, low cost parts and tiny tiny components. The links below (links contributed by Mike). Chris is away on vacation and will return next week:

  • UK electronics shows :
    • Engineering Design show UK
    • Southern Manufacturing show
  • 7-segment displays for ants
    • Image from twitter
    • Product page ( bottom of page)
    • 0.8mm high digits :
    • Needs a wire-bonder to use
    • Used for head-up displays etc. for military ( can’t use OLED due to limited temp range)
  • News :
    • Jitx “Autorouter”.. I think (Hackaday article)
      • Pricing of Jitx
    • World’s shortest scheduled flight to go electric
    • Apple iphone warranty fraud
    • $3.7 Billion…!
    • Boston Dynamics at it again!
      • Parkour
      • Dancing dog will kill us and dance on our graves
      • James Bruton’s openDog project
  • Useful stuff :
    • Online gerber viewer
    • LCSC (low cost parts site from China, part of JLCPCB)
      • DC-DC converter with chip buried in PCB
    • Mike’s Ethernet decoding scope add-on
  • Mike’s recent installations, as seen on his consulting site page Whitewint

Comments

  1. benn686 says

    October 26, 2018 at 11:29 am

    Would love to hear more about what the EtherDecode can be used for!

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    October 28, 2018 at 6:43 pm

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  2. Shop talk | TriEmbed says:
    October 31, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    […] to point out one episode that was particularly pleasant to listen to.  This is episode #412 titled “3 Cent Micros and 1000s of LEDs”. It’s Dave Jones of EEVBlog and Mike Harrison of Mike’s Electric Stuff talking shop, […]

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