#441 – Motivational Speaker

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• KiCon is over! The only thing that really went wrong is Chris lost his wallet briefly.
• Former guest Chris Anderson (@Chr1sa on twitter) is no longer going to TED conferences
• Matt Foley motivational speaker
• Simone Giertz is our only past guest who has given a full TED talk (?)
• Derek Kozel
• Dave “threw a grenade”
• PCB wars
• Dave made two predictions
  • Displace the low end tools
  • There will be a commercial venture supporting KiCad at some point
• We discussed something similar in episode 188
• KiCon Developer panel
• Chris stood up a site for Reality Instruments, which is for add-ons for the Valve Index
• Open source hardware
• Names matter, don’t lock yourself in
• Trademarks and brands
• Tim Poole of Subverse
• Anki shuts down, lays off staff
• They had just done a new Kickstarter project
• Boston Dynamics’ Spot Mini showcased during a Tech Crunch event
• James Bruton
• Silicon Valley is a documentary
• The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley (documenatry about Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos)
• Mousr
• Brian Benchoff posts about the cost realities of low volume production
• A twitter thread about #badgelife and getting started with electronics

Image from the SNL Sketch “Motivational Speaker”