#439 – Grow A Superbrain

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• Chris will be dealing with everything after KiCon
• Cadence Allegro
• The downsides of someone showing you how to do things
• The Feynman method
  • Pointer example
• Current through a capacitor
• Building up intuition first
• 100 page debate Walter Lewyn lecture on kirchoff
• Electroboom built a device to test the theory (which started the debate on the forum)
• Big Clive nearly put himself in the hospital!
• Dave had a Nobel Laureate — Barry Marshall — over to the lab
• Testing it on himself
• Article discussing the signal integrity decisions of the BeagleBone Black
• Eric Bogatin on The Amp Hour
• 1 in a million problems
• Dave’s example of a best case board
  • gnd
  • signal
  • gnd
  • signal
  • gnd
  • signal
  • gnd
  • signal
  • gnd
  • power
• Choice of termination might matter more
• Blind and buried is better than whole vias
• Chris made a video about what blind and buried vias look like
• PCB Shopper
• Getting coupons for PCB reviews
• Dave has been on YouTube for 10 years!
• There will be a KiCad course at Microchip Masters
• Latchup Conference is happening the first weekend in May in Portland
• Former guest Bil Herd is doing a video series testing high speed PCB 
• Ring of Chronos high speed cameras
• Former guest David Kronstein and his company Krontech are coming out with new v2.1, they did a teardown of the camera
• Great Scott did a video about battery management
• Solar plus storage costs are under $0.10 per kwh
• Are the costs actually coming down?
• There’s nothing better than lithium ion coming soon
• South Australia installation Saved $40M already
• Chris has been listening to a book/lecture series about energy generation and storage
• The KiCad banana!

Thanks to lady traveler for the brain mechanics picture