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#403 – An Interview with Mike Szczys

Mike Szczys (“stish”) joins Chris to talk about DEF CON 26, building electronics badges for fun, other low level embedded projects and utilizing pick and place machines.

#402 – An Interview with Ben Einstein

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Ben Einstein, founder of Bolt, talks to Chris about how hardware startups can get off the ground and how Bolt helps guide them with advice, design resources, and prototyping facilities.

#401 – An Interview with Brent and Bryce Salmi

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Brent and Bryce Salmi are avionic electronics engineers who recently completed a 5 year tenure at SpaceX. They talk to Chris about designing for extreme reliability and creating open source digital radios.

#400 – Once Every Couple Months

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Dave and Chris chat again for episode 400 after a couple of weeks and many shows apart! They discuss video games, CAD tools, tariffs, LCDs and PCBs!

#396 – The Synergy Bus

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Chris and Dave discuss i2c troubleshooting, assistive technology, coding guidelines, and putting the application specificity into “ASIC”

#395 – An Interview with Luke Valenty

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Luke Valenty of TinyFPGA.com joins Chris to talk about creating FPGA devices and using open source toolchains to control them.

#393 – I’ve bitten myself

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This week Dave and Chris dive into PCB layout and how to spec soldermask relief. Also the scourge of footprints, driving LCD panels, fanning out BGAs and much more!

#391 – Only A Transmitter

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This week Chris and Dave discussed using out of spec software defined radios, how to lower the cost on production devices, the rising cost of prototyping and the threat of money laundering.