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Welcome back, Jeff Keyzer AKA Mightyohm!
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This is now our 5th Keyzermas! Check out the past ones here:
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Last year Jeff had just quit his job but has since re-joined Valve as a contractor
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Overhead
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Jeff has not joined Chris’s Consulting Forum. You can join here if you’re interested (now 100+ strong!)
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Jeff has been focusing on Signal Integrity
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It’s helpful to “Be the signal“, a visualization popularized by Eric Bogatin
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Dave things Jeff should get a video game maker to make a simulation. Maybe former guest Zach Barth of Zachtronics?
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“The Terminator”
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In his new SI role, Jeff is checking things like
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Learn your Z transforms, kids! They’re important!
- We’ve had some great signal integrity guests on the show:
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Howard Johnson (though Chris completely forgot)
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The Seattle scene for hardware has been growing. Jeff isn’t a NIMBY yet.
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The effect of recessions on new company creation
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Things that have or haven’t happened
- TS80
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New bandwidths – 60 GHz
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Hiber and other low earth orbit satellite offerings
- Looking at the 2018 hype curve
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CES trends
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Connected home
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Autobiography of Tek (think it’s “Winning with people: The first 40 years of Tektronix”)
Thanks to Mrs Mightyohm for the picture of Jeff and my sister’s instagram account for the picture of the elf on the shelf 😀
Come on, Dave! Those claims on 3d printers were being made when the cheapest systems were thousands of dollars! Of course they aren’t in every home yet. But now they’re reaching the point where buying a kit is less expensive than buying the individual parts. Now, its finally in the price range of a consumer product, not an industrial product.
With my experience this Christmas, what you’re really forgetting is kids: they break things. It starts with that new toy they sent down a flight of stairs, then that knob on the dryer that they broke, or that drone your brother flew into a tree, and I’m sure eventually there will be that thing they need for school that they’re supposed to have tomorrow. The thing pays for itself!
3d printers will also be in every school before they are in every home. I’ll bet that rubber band car project we all did in school is going to change. I think that’s how they will seep into the home. There will certainly be no excuse for every mech/civil/etc. engineering student not to have their own, it costs less than a textbook already.
We are still a long way off from a simple click-to-print, no-fuss experience for perfect, aesthetic results every time, right out of the box. The point where it becomes easy enough for the general population, that’s not 10 years out, maybe not even 20 years out. But as more people use them, they will be developed more and become easier to use, and the model libraries will grow.