Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Chris and Dave discuss electronics textbooks, computers taking over layout, writing firmware, and how to deal with test equipment addictions.
#470 – Just Add Salt
#469 – An Interview with Craig J Bishop
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Craig Bishop joins Chris to talk about a custom gaming platform built on the Xilinx Zynq, how he uses autorouters to connect chips at packaging facilities, and using more software to build hardware.
#468 – The Tiny Lab Movement
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Dave and Chris discuss downsized labs, flex PCBs, arsonist robots, PCB manufacturing, FPGA practicality and a lot more!
#467 – Stories from Supercon 2019
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Chris talks with 3 different guests about FPGAs and open source toolchains at the Hackaday Superconference 2019. Guests include Jereon “Sprite_tm” Domburg, Sylvain “tnt” Munaut and Matt Venn.
#466 – An Interview with Ryan Cousins
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Ryan Cousins is a founder and CEO of Krtkl. He talks with Chris about the Snickerdoodle, an FPGA + SOC platform, which allows users to easily design high complexity FPGA products using a pluggable board topology. Listen to the struggles with crowdfunding, building a software and hardware platform, and how FPGAs are being used by companies throughout the world.
#465 – An Interview with Ted Yapo
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
This week Ted Yapo joins Chris to talk about tritium lights, diode based logic, and optimizing network analyzers.
#464 – KonnectorPanik
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Chris and Dave discuss designing and testing antennas, production moving out of China, designing flash into products, building flex PCB based cash, hinged PCB construction, and a lot more!
#463 – An Interview with Trammell Hudson
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Trammell Hudson is a hardware and firmware security researcher who has a wide range of projects. He joins Chris to talk about robotics, firmware reverse engineering, driving vector displays, retro computers and a bunch more.
#462 – Boat Anchors
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
This week Dave and Chris discuss satellite communications, PCB milling, measuring RF, and uncertain datasheets. Please consider filling out our 2019 listener survey. We will do a drawing for DMMs, USB scopes and Amp Hour notebooks.
#461 – An Interview with Jonathan Georgino
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Jonathan Georgino is creator of the Binho (pronounced BEAN-yo), a USB host adapter that simplifies the process of creating test stands for production. He talks to Chris about his history of hardware design and how it influenced his new product.