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Dave and Chris discuss format changes to the show, engineering education and robotics competitions.
#33 – Bob Widlar, Electronic Design, FIRST Robotics – Monday, Meta Monday
#32 – Cores, Digikey, Electronic Design – The Commercial Competitor Commencement
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Dave and Chris talk about the new DigiKey/DesignNews radio show and give some (hopefully) constructive feedback.
#31 – Freescale, Hackerspaces, Printable Electronics – Publish Popular Parts Please!
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Dave and Chris want chip manufacturers to let us know which are the most popular chip in order to design to parts that won’t become obsolete as quickly.
#30 – Agilent, Analog, Cold Fusion – Funding Fusion Is Not Futile
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Dave and Chris talk about funding issues in the US and the importance of science research in future product development.
#29 – DJ and Jazzy Jeff
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Dave and Mightyohm Jeff Keyzer join forces to talk about conferences, packaging and IPC footprints
#28 – Bowie and The Brown Note
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The 555 contest continues onward! Everyone is getting excited! Dave’s classic 1976 vintage Signetics 555 timer chip (which he destroyed! RIP).
#27 – 555 Contest, Computer Museum, Octopart – The Green Pen Hornswoggle
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Dave and Chris talk about the upcoming 555 design contest and stories from listeners.
#26 – The Ben & Jeri Show
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Chris and Dave ended up talking about Element 14, Ben Heck and Jeri Ellsworth enough that they decided to name show 26 after them.
#25 – NASA, WOTW & Modular Design – The NASA Nostalgia
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This week we didn’t get much beyond WOTW but managed to have a good discussion about modular design and the mistakes of NASA.
#24 – Solar Cells, SparkFun, TSMC – The Detroit Debunking
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Shoutouts Sparkfun has a new “grab bag” program for all their pick and place cast off parts. Could be some good pickins! Rants Why does the IEEE still charge membership fees to unemployed engineers? And why does the cutoff for waiving the fee occur […]