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- We had some network problems the last few weeks. If you have more problems, post them to the EEV Blog Forum thread on the topic.
- Agilent has a firmware upgrade for their 3000 series scopes, Dave is claiming a victory!
- Dave and Chris were both on the Tymkrs ZombieTech podcast. Lots of fun.
- Eric the Embedded Hardware Guy mentioned us in his article in the EE Web magazine.
- Dennis Machida, the garage engineer, mentioned us on his site. Thanks!
- Ben Rampling wrote in to let us know about a new part of reddit, /r/nicechips! It’s like a perpetual Chip of the Week! Awesome!
- How are ADCs different if they’re audio or precision? Dave explains his use of seismic ADCs.
- Part packages continue their relentless march towards infinitely small! Chris posts pictures of the parts in his Google+ album.
- New low power micro announced from ST in conjunction with MIT researchers. It has 0.54V turn on for some of the transistors…crazy!
- Hackers and DIYers are taking the matters of their electric car diagnostics into their own hands and reverse engineering the firmware.
- Dave (with the help of the EEV Blog forum) found the Micro OTP FPGA from Silego. Cool idea for a toolbox part.
- The co-inventor of C and UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, has passed away. He did a lot for the industry and the world!
- Now they have training for socially awkward students…to learn not to be so awkward.
- Chris found a new picture at the computer history museum of Bob Widlar that is fantastic.
- There is also a fun exhibit online of analog computers.
- Still one of those socially awkward nerds but want to be among others like you? Go on a Geek Cruise!
Is listening to past Amp Hour podcasts back-to-back a bad thing? Because that is what I’ve been doing about a week ago! :S
^o^ It was loads of fun talking to you guys individually. And in terms of the zombie apocalypse…if the CDC’s worried…
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
Just saying 😉
On the Silego pronunciation: Maybe it stands for Silicon Lego.
So far as I know, all UK Universities have special programmes to assist socially awkward engineering students. It is also something which cannot exist in US colleges. It is self-financing and *very* popular. We call it “cheap beer at the student union”. There is sport, video games, bloke talk, and even those female things. “Wimmin” I think they call them.
Everyone in The Netherlands and probably Germany pronounce ‘Nissan’ the way Dave does. That’s the way just about everyone seem to pronounce it. Except for those silly Japanese people. I’ve never heard ‘Nissaaaaaahn’ before…
The Amp Hour inspired my last trip to CA. Visited the HP Garage, HSC/Halted, Weird stuff, and the computer history museum. worth the trip. I went in May so I could go to SF Bay area MakerFaire.
Regarding the distinction between geeks and nerds, you forgot the link to xkcd: http://xkcd.com/747/
When Dave talked about office politics and not speaking your mind, I instantly thought about the movie Office Space from Mike Judge. If you don’t know it, do yourself a favor and watch it, it’s hilarious.
This was one of my favorite shows. I love the light discussion of ADCs. I also like the idea of a geek cruise. I’ve always thought if I went on a cruise I’d like to bring a handheld VHF high-gain yagi. There’s a picture of a guy standing on deck doing just that.
Hi Dave
RE The 100M unit sold by Silego Here is the reference link
http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-technology/programmable-mixed-signal-device-looks-to-mop-up-utility-functions/37422/
The relevant lines are about 10 lines up from Fig 2 near the bottom of the page. It’s a fantastic chip but with too many limitations to become ‘Ubiquitous’.That said it proves that there is a market for a small, easily programmed FPGA and no doubt a more user friendly package will pop up sooner or later, whether from GreenPak or An.Other. remains to be seen.
Looks like the “training for socially awkward students” link already got 404’ed. Just to let you know so you might wanna update it.
Finally fixed it, sorry about that .Thanks for the heads up!