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#482 – Shine A Light

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Today’s episode is sponsored by Screaming Circuits, who can place the newest and smallest pitch parts, even on low run, quick turn assembled boards (their specialty)

  • Dave will be taking his new BlackDiamond spot 325 headlamp when he goes canyoning
  • Lithium battery can be 4.8V out of the pack
  • Forum on mfg
  • Chris Church was on the Macrofab Engineering Podcast talking about the Coronavirus effects on manufacturing
  • Bill Gates in documentary about viruses
  • Zoom stock really taking off due to coronavirus
  • DO NOT USE THIS CHIP
  • NAS in the Trash (eevblog video)
  • Intel C2000 atom processor bricks devices
  • LPC clock 0
  • Errata on C2000
  • Episode next week will be with a designer who does 300 GHz +  designs (?!)
  • Chip of the Week: The Tibbo Plus1. It’s an all-in-one SOC that runs Yocto Linux.
  • Chris has been challenged with board clearances and is hoping KiCad v6 DRC improves some features.
  • Morse Blinkies as a Service: a web program by Ian Ross that generates circuits on demand…to make morse codes.
  • It uses SKiDL, which is a text based netlist plugin for KiCad written by former guest Dave Vandenbout. Dave gave a keynote about SKiDL at KiCon 2019
  • EEVblog JTAG video / Boundary Scan
  • Tag Connect
  • Making a toaster from scratch
  • How we record the amp hour

Thanks to Simon Scarfe for the picture of the headlamp scariness

Comments

  1. Erik says

    March 2, 2020 at 12:06 am

    Dave is going cocoo from living isolated in his YouTube bubble? I want more episodes with Chris and same guests.

    • Dave says

      March 2, 2020 at 5:26 pm

      How am I going cocooo exactly?

  2. Carlos Cuevas says

    March 3, 2020 at 3:48 pm

    What’s the name of the Kicad plugin that makes timelapses you talk about at 49 min 20 sec?

    Thanks!

    • Chris Gammell says

      March 3, 2020 at 5:32 pm

      https://blog.krastanov.org/2020/02/17/pcb-layout-timelapse/

      This was on the subreddit, as are most links we forget to post in the show notes:

      https://www.reddit.com/r/TheAmpHour/

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