#137 -Mars, System Design & NAND – Mercurial Mars Mission

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This post was meant to post the evening of 3/19 (EST) but for some reason it didn’t post until this morning.

• Dave has lost a bunch of footage because of camera problems.
• They’re looking for volunteers to live (and die) on Mars. What kind of electronics would you bring?
• Dave has been reading, “The Case for Mars” by Robert Zubrin
• System design is important. Could they design with enough interchangeable parts to avoid the square air filter in the circular air filter hole problem like on Apollo 13?

• When big projects are on the line, different groups hear different things and have different prorities, like on this tree swing.
• A new part from Microchip called the BodyCom allows you to use your body as the communication medium.
• The NAND computer looks complex! Is it worth it for you to build one too?
• The lightning detector breakout module from Tautic.
• Perhaps the needed new DfX item will be DfS? Design for Sharing!
• Chris has been troubleshooting SPI recently and fighting with the different modes.
• A new site called CircuitLava hopes to be a marketplace for designs? Sign up to be an early contributor.
• If you’re making boards at home, you can check out the new $2K PickNPlace called Board Forge, powered by a Raspberry Pi.
• Ian from Dangerous Prototypes has a different PnP he picked up in China.

• Bunnie Huang released his book, “Hacking The Xbox” for free in honor of Aaron Schwarz.

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Thanks to TJ Blackwell for the CC Mars Mashup picture…awesome!