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- Dave has more computer woes. He still “shops” from the dumpster room though!
- Chris has been working with NodeJS which has so many dependencies it stresses him out
- Altium rejected a bid from Autodesk
- Jon Evans, one of the lead KiCad devs, is an upcoming guest on Chris’s other podcast for Contextual Electronics.
- Solidworks is made by Dassault Systems (who also make military gear?)
- Solidworks rebadges Altium as “Solidworks PCB”
- Past guest (and co-worker of both Chris and Dave!) Matt Berggren is one of the leading product developers at Autodesk PCB.
- The LM3914 display driver
- Past guest Philip Fredin made a “DIP conversion” package using a PCB and stamped metal
- Toyota Production System
- Stopping the line in TPS
- Continuous integration / continuous deployment
- Apparently Tesla is doing some form of this with their cars?
- Chris got to catch up with past guest Sam Zeloof, who is nearing the end of undergrad (already!). He mentioned the cost of a lithography machine (EUV) is near $100M
- Bosch has a new semiconductor plant for making sensors
- TinyML on microcontrollers
- Past guest Brian Faith talked about doing something like this using their platform SensiML
- Popping a 5000A fuse
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haha, here an excerpt from sensing monthly 😉 a new way to measure CO2 (OK, not new, but new in that size/price range), and yes, affiliated…
https://www.sensirion.com/en/about-us/company/pasensr-technology/
and TDK announced also something rather new: https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20210108_01.html
traditional CO2 sensors are NDIR, much bigger and more expensive (and not SMT compatible)
Thanks for the episode!
Bosch in Dresden: “Manufacturing of automotive microchips will be a primary focus”. Remember Germans build cars 🙂
About the lm3194, maybe you could use a micro, an ADC, and a bank of input switches to scan over a set of analog lines instead? Maybe some gain control also… Kind of silly to replace one but for a whole load maybe even cheaper?