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#424 – An Interview with Julia Truchsess

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Julia Truchsess, founder of Pragmatic Designs, joins Chris to talk about consulting, the audio industry, toy production and creating products that end up in popular music and millions of households.

#423 – Open FPGA Toolchains at 35c3

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In this special episode recorded at Chaos Communication Congress (35c3), Piotr Esden-Tempski, Clifford Wolf and Dave Shah talk about the state of open FPGA toolchains and the recently announced nextpnr toolset.

#422 – Stick ‘Em On Whales

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This week Chris joins Elecia and Chris White of Embedded.fm to talk about the state of the electronics/embedded world and to recap favorite episodes of the year.

#421 – The Legend of Keyzermas

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Jeff Keyzer (Mightyohm) joins Dave and Chris to celebrate the state of the electronics world and to chat about what’s on the horizon.

#420 – An Interview with Joe Long

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Joe Long joins Chris to talk about subscription boxes of electronics (Hackerboxes.com), learning through project based education and working as an IP attorney writing high tech utility patents (Long Tech Law).

#419 – Feels over reals

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This week Chris and Dave discuss letting magic smoke out of transformers, building with highly integrated SIPs, the ethics of scooters and how to craft a layout contest.

#418 – An Interview with Josh Datko

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Josh Datko joined Chris to talk about embedded security, military contracting and to tell stories about his time on nuclear submarines and as a naval officer in the middle of Afghanistan.

#417 – Cash Is King

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Dave and Chris talk about the ins and outs of running product and consulting businesses and dealing with cashflow. Also Chris announces that KiCon 2019 will be taking place in April 2019 in Chicago IL

#416 – An Interview with James Bruton

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James Bruton, xrobot creator and YouTuber, joins Chris and Dave to talk about robots, video documentation and the challenges of carrying your 40 kg robotic dog up the stairs.

#415 – Ergs Per Second

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Chris and Dave catch up about conference talks, designing PCBs into cases, thin PCB design and solar panels fading into the background.

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