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Bart Dring joins Chris to talk about CNCs, motion control and building custom robots.
#438 – An Interview with Bart Dring
#437 – An Interview with Chrissy Meyer
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This week Chrissy Meyer of Root Ventures joins Chris to talk about DfM at large companies like Apple and Square. Also how these and other skills have translated into working with hardware startups in the venture world.
#436 – Downward Sloping Trace
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This week Dave and Chris discuss logic analyzers, layout practice, CPLDs and how heat can stack up inside a design.
#435 – An Interview with Andreas Spiess
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Andreas Spiess, “the guy with the Swiss accent” on YouTube, joins Chris to talk about connected devices and the importance of rules.
#434 – Use The Protection Circuit
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Dave and Chris discuss freezing LCDs, the cost of prototypes, swapping layer polarity in layout, designing with custom parts, and how to interface to unprotected battery cells.
#433 – An Interview with Sam Stranks
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Sam Stranks is a researcher, professor, and entrepreneur focused on making Perovskites into a commercially viable solar cell. The efficiency has been climbing at a rapid pace over the past 10 years. He joins Chris to talk about how Perovskites could lead to more prevalent (and printed!) solar cells.
#432 – Check The Dummy Box
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This week Dave and Chris discuss designing hardware without specifications, upcoming conferences, working with software services on distributed hardware and how to measure current over a large dynamic range.
#431 – An Interview with Adam McCombs
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Adam McCombs joins Chris to talk about his love of scanning electron microscopes and all things in the world of minuscule measurements. Listen as he discusses repairing, moving and troubleshooting high complexity, high voltage machines.
#430 – Shahriar Discusses 5G
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Shahriar from The Signal Path returns to talk with Dave about 5G and the practical implementation of new broadband technologies. This discussion ranged from phased signal arrays to the importance of processing new information via the internet.
#429 – An Interview with Charles Alexanian
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Charles Alexanian joins Chris to talk about manufacturing in the agriculture space, repairing and sourcing components for the music industry and hobbies that take you far afield.