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#646 – Fan Fanboys

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  • Chris is out of stock on Tindie and will no longer be a seller (though he was barely one to start with). Props to all the sellers out there!
  • Media mail is a low cost post option in the US
  • Colin Mitchell allowed people to pay with stamps instead of money orders back in the day
  • There is always a struggle for hardware engineers to price a product at the value in the marketplace and not just the cost of parts
  • Teardown of DHO800
  • Heatsink testing (live during the show)
  • CFD
  • Controlled depth routing
  • We discussed Joe Grand’s thin boombox last time, Dave watched a talk where he explained more of the process
  • Scotty from Strange Parts did an awesome tour of the JLC PCB Flex factory
  • Skewed expectations
  • Dave was wondering why during the production assembly of scope that they populated caps but not silicon
  • Intel is investing in ARM, RISC V (say what now?)
  • eBay U1273A meter
  • Old stock
  • 30 year old tek chips

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