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#528 – New Year, New Gear

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This week Chris and Dave discuss a wide range of new equipment, including soldering irons, USB scopes, active loads, and retrofitted DMMs. Also discussion around new boards and chips from Raspberry Pi and Seeed.

#527 – Measuring Current with Matt Liberty

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Matt Liberty, creator of the Joulescope, joins Chris to talk about measuring current in low power devices, including IoT devices that have high current RF pulses. Matt explains how to optimize low power designs and how he created the Joulescope.

#526 – Why IoT Is Difficult with Jonathan Beri

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Jonathan Beri of Golioth joins Chris to talk about the difficulty of standing up an end-to-end IoT solution, including working with web providers, dealing with firmware updates, interfacing with different business organizations and more.

#525 – Open FPGA Toolchains and Machine Learning with Brian Faith of QuickLogic

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Brian Faith, CEO of QuickLogic, joins Chris to talk about implementing the Symbiflow open source toolchain for QuickLogic FPGAs and how they are using that tool chain alongside the SensiML platform to create flexible, low power devices for machine learning applications.

#524 – LEDs and EVs with Mike Harrison

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Mike Harrison of Mike’s Electric Stuff join Chris and Dave to talk about new development projects, working with old parts and tinkering under the hood of an EV.

#523 – A Keyzermas Story

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Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm.com joins Chris and Dave for our annual Keyzermas episode! Jeff updates us on what he’s been working on, answers some questions about RF and discusses the state of the electronics world, as he sees it.

#522 – High Current Power Supplies with Fredrik Kensander

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Fredrik Kensander of KraftPowercon joins Chris to talk about creating very high current output power supplies used for things like plating copper onto circuit boards (and many other industrial applications). They discuss firmware, processors, power output stages, system architecture and more!

#521 – Outdoor Laser Projection & Object Mapping with Daryl Tewksbury

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Daryl Tewksbury joins Dave to talk about his work on laser projects at Laservision and how he has continued building hardware and software.

#520 – Inductance and Stuff

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This week Chris and Dave dive into RF…and promptly turn around and walk away from the topic. Also firmware, training repetitions, PCB stackups, satellites, Linux modules and much more!

#519 – Simulating Embedded Hardware with Michael Gielda

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Michael Gielda of Antmicro joins Chris to talk about simulating embedded hardware, from the microcontroller core all the way out to multiple units communicating on a mesh network (and beyond). Their open source tool (Renode) enables better firmware testing and more reliable systems.

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