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- Chris is trying to making a remote controlled blinky thing for < $1
- Dave suggested the Padouk $0.03 microcontroller, which now has a C compiler (read more about it on the EEVblog forum)
- (Chris later remembered Samy has a talk about lighting up balloons)
- Mike Harrison on Embedded.fm discussing PICs
- Switching costs
- Chris will be at Chaos Camp this year!
- Shahriar reviews the Deepace VNA
- RF layout book
- Difference from SI
- Routing requirements
- Spectrum analyzer
- TI’s Antenna Selection Guide
- Where do we store files
- Dave has been dealing with isolated power and data on usupply
- Chris really enjoyed Kate Tempkin’s talk about USB
- TS80 can only power from USB quick charge and not PD
- Dave giving a talk on solar roadways
- Chris will be (is currently) helping past guest of the show Joe Fitzpatrick doing hardware training at Black Hat.
- Alibaba is working on a homegrown chip based on the RISC V architecture
- More focus on RISC V is a small silver lining of the trade war.
- Russian chips from back in the day, 74 series
- RISC V from scratch
- Chris was on a 3M podcast talking about his excitement around RISC V and open toolchains.
- LCSC is getting investment, which means its less interesting as a point of insight into Chinese branded chips..
- Dave got back from celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. He has been publishing videos over on his EEVdiscover channel.
- Aria tracking planes
- Dave and Chris did an episode while driving to Canberra to visit the DSN.
- You can listen and watch along the Apollo 11 launch in “realtime”
- Dave highly recommends watching the Apollo 11 movie at an iMAX.
What are the name of the newsletters? It sounded like JetIx Smartbrief and Woodstock Wireless.. but doing a search didn’t turn up anything electronics related.
In hindsight, and based on the scope of the USB effort, what would Dave had done differently? One of the earliest kickstarter projects I can remember is the Open-Source USB analyzer, “OpenVizsla”. I don’t think it was successful, but hopefully ViewSB managed to leverage some of it?
Hey Chris and or Dave, greatly enjoyed the episode. Can you elaborate on pros/cons of a VNA versus a Spectrum Analyzer with a Tracking Generator? For example, if you could only have one on the bench which would you choose for an “IoT” development project?
I picked up an iClever IC-JD31 power bank that uses USB-PD to get charged, charges USB-PD devices from the same USB Type C port, and also has USB Type A ports which support QC 3.0 to run my TS80. It also has a 12V barrel jack that I’ve used to power a fan to blow solder smoke away. I can’t vouch for what it looks like on the inside—the 800A 8L gas engine jump-starting spec begs the question. Might it power a uSupply someday?
What’s the name of the 50 odd cent SoC with Bluetooth in it? Thanks.
LCSC is the Jameco of Chinese distributors. One day they sell 3 cent parts that typically retails for 20cents, next day they’re selling the same part with 20008 date code (yes with an additional zero) for 30 cents.
Designing in those parts is like driving 100 miles out of the way to save 2 cents a gallon on gas.