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  1. Chris, you mentioned a new podcast but Dave kept interrupting you with “one last thing”. Can you guys share the link?

  2. Just a comment about IoT.

    Some sizable investments are being made on the industrial side where, for example, process controller providers have customers asking about sending packets up to a compute cloud for analytical processing and rendering of insights into their data. The demand is being seen across aerospace, chemical, and military sectors. So while this tech may not amount to much in the consumer space, it has attracted some serious interest on the part of those with deep pockets.

  3. “This week’s show will have a very simple set of links due to the nature of the show. If there are any “must have” links that you think will benefit your fellow community members, please let it in the comments. Otherwise, we will update the notes on 8/13.”

    What?

  5. If someone hacked Nest and turned everyone’s heater on at exactly the same time, could you overload the grid and cause widespread power cuts?

    605,000 2kW heating elements turning on at once is 1.21GW of sudden load.

    • Think you’d probably need to do that with AC units, most people use natural gas (at least in my area). Plus it would be more impactful as the AC kicking on is an inductive hit (due to compressors kicking on) vs a slow ramp like most heating elements would be.

  7. Autorouters – I have used them. Some are terrible. Some are less terrible. Most do not 100% complete. Leave the hardest routes for you to rip up and re-route. Most of my boards are extreme mixed circuits (digital, signal analog, HV high power analog) and it easier to hand route than to create complex enough routing rules to satisfy design requirements. The autorouter I was using did not support six layer PCB with blind via.