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- Wired stuff still wins for reliability…especially if it’s fiber! Wifi continues to be unreliable for most things.
- Chris has an Amazon Echo in the AirBnB where he’s staying. He’s been talking to Alexa.
- Dave recently did a Sigilent Teardown.
- While in the Bay Area, Chris finally got to try out the CastAR.
- The HTC Vive is a true VR platform Chris got to try. It was designed by former guest Alan Yates and the controllers partially by regular guest Jeff Keyzer.
- UBM sold all of the assets around EETimes, EDN and more to Arrow.
- Newark/Element 14/Farnell was sold to a Swiss holding company.
- Intel’s web/TV series “America’s Greatest Makers” has a winner…a toothbrush.
- The makers of the ESP8266 have released a new model that has integrated flash.
- Chris started working at the same place that Bob Widlar started at (in Cleveland!). If you’ve never seen it, you can download the poster here.
- Tools that arean’t used that often, but imporant to have on the bench.:
- Network analyzer
- IMTTI eye prober
- USB to RS485
- Chip of the Week: TPS54A20
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Dave – I know that you are down on CHIP computer, but you should get one and tinker with it. It needs a mouse, keyboard, USB hub (powered) but it has OS and file space already built in and has WiFi and Bluetooth. It supports composite video (both NTSC and PAL and with the addition of an OS upgrade, a connector and a bunch of resistors, it will support VGA.
Hi all,
You talked about content and design, but in fact you all are giving for many of us the directions, showing what and where to go in design so in some way you make part of many decisions that people that are developing in their jobs in professional development not only the hobby development.
I really like the teardowns (I do mines and repairs in old equipment’s that I have just to know how the old masters did that equipment)and critics about the products because, in my opinion, many times it takes us from some misunderstood or give us new ideas for some problems.
Your work are very important to industry development, and more important in places that don’t have the conditions to people that wants that knowledge.
Bests regards from Brazil.
Dave, Chris,
thank you so much for your work. It is interesting, it is funny, it boosts my maker-motivation and EEnthusiasm each time I hear your voices. Thank you!
Just wanted to stop by and say that. Your podcast is the greatest, so please please please keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland! Trzymajcie sie 🙂
There was a great Freakonomics episode on how Malcom Gladwell kind of mis-reported the original 10000 study:
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/
Would love to visit the Packard EE building at Stanford someday!