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Dave and Chris discuss part library strategies, repairing equipment, electric vehicles, corporate buyouts, IoT teardowns, and more!
#543 – Cassette decks have browsers?
#542 – Component Management with Jan Rychter
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Jan Rychter, creator of PartsBox, talks with Chris about how to manage a personal library of components. This can help to save money, run a small manufacturing business, keep track of parts, reduce waste, and more!
#541 – Chip Shortage Denier
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Chris returns from paternity leave to more mayhem in the semiconductor supply chain. Dave jokingly doesn’t believe that it’s happening when he can’t find parts out on a distributor website.
#540 – The Space Time Continuum with Fran Blanche
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Dave talks with Fran Blanche about, well, everything including her theory on the space time continuum!
#538 – Missle Man with Bruce Simson
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Bruce Simpson from the Xjet Youtube channel joins Dave to discuss RC aircraft and creating an international incident by developing a DIY cruise missle!
#537 – Firmware Deployment and Troubleshooting with Akbar Dhanaliwala
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Akbar Dhanaliwala, Founder and CEO of Lager Data, joins Chris to talk about building out firmware testing infrastructure. His experiences deploying software to devices in the field or being manufactured in China inspired the Lager Gateway and platform.
#536 – NFT Schematics
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This week Dave and Chris discuss the value of a schematic, how chip fabs recover from shutdowns, getting started projects, 3D printing with resin, operating systems and much more!
#535 – Efinix FPGAs with Sammy Cheung
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Sammy Cheung, CEO of Efinix, joins Chris to talk about FPGAs. They discuss designing reconfigurable devices into products that do not traditionally have FPGAs, but will benefit from enhanced capabilities like Computer Vision.
#534 – Firmware Update Capabilities
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This week Dave and Chris talk about putting firmware onto devices (or not), computer history, Silicon Valley, cabling and extraterrestrial flight.
#533 – Microwave measurement with Joel Dunsmore
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Joel Dunsmore is a Keysight Fellow, an engineer who worked on the HP 8753, and the author of The Microwave Component Measurement handbook. He joins Chris to explain VNAs, the increasing need for multi-port systems, and how to work in an increasingly complex RF world.