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- WeWork problems
- Chris is gearing up to buy a boat anchor (VNA) discussed in episode 462
- Leaving stuff on the bench
- Dave thinking about downsizing, possibly starting “The Tiny Lab Movement”
- You have to focus on one thing in a small space
- Mr Carlson’s Lab has a bunch of Patreon-only videos for learning about electronics
- Dave talked about flex PCBs this past week. It’s not a flex tutorial, but one might be on the way eventually.
- Former guest Dan Hienzsch has started a site called Manufacturing Reports, where he reviews PCB fabrication houses. Dan was also recently on the Macrofab podcast.
- TG-130 vs TG-180
- Former guest Ted Yapo expanded on the 8 GHz scope he discussed on the show during his talk at Supercon
- Select on test
- Chris gave a talk on RF at Supercon
- A highly automated warehouse in the UK burned down after a rogue robot lit on fire
- Comparing logic elements between part vendors
- Reasons to put FPGA into a product
- Goofing TX and RX
- Dave and David are trying to fit everything into 32K chip on STM32
- Mike Harrison’s talk about LEDs
- GreatScott explaining USB C (and USB PD)
- Yageo is buying Kemet
Thanks to Ales Kladnik for the image of his father’s cramped lab
Regarding goofing up TX/RX: On the STM32 MCUs (at least the newer ones) you can swap TX/RX in software (there’s a SWAP bit in the USART control register).
Is that Chris in the grey shirt (hunched over) at the 2019-hackaday-superconference-badge?
https://hackaday.com/2019/11/29/a-fantastic-frontier-of-fpga-flexibility-found-in-the-2019-supercon-badge/
BTW, is the event always in Pasadena, and are there videos of the presentations?
Also , there was a great Planet Money podcast (#943: Unicorn Cowboy) on the whole WeWork story!
That’s actually not me in the gray shirt, I’m in the black jacket two seats to the left of that person though!
The event has been in Pasadena the past 4 years, it was in SF the first year. Videos are found on the Hackaday youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/hackaday