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This is the first of a couple episodes that will be posted from KiCon 2019. This interview was in two parts with some of the developers from the KiCad project. We talked with Wayne Stambaugh, Maciej “Orson” Suminski, Tomasz Wlostowski, Jon Evans, and Seth Hillbrand.
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Chris and Dave discuss signal integrity, Kirchoff’s current law and building up a new base of knowledge.
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Bart Dring joins Chris to talk about CNCs, motion control and building custom robots.
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This week Chrissy Meyer of Root Ventures joins Chris to talk about DfM at large companies like Apple and Square. Also how these and other skills have translated into working with hardware startups in the venture world.
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This week Dave and Chris discuss logic analyzers, layout practice, CPLDs and how heat can stack up inside a design.
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Andreas Spiess, “the guy with the Swiss accent” on YouTube, joins Chris to talk about connected devices and the importance of rules.
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Dave and Chris discuss freezing LCDs, the cost of prototypes, swapping layer polarity in layout, designing with custom parts, and how to interface to unprotected battery cells.
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Sam Stranks is a researcher, professor, and entrepreneur focused on making Perovskites into a commercially viable solar cell. The efficiency has been climbing at a rapid pace over the past 10 years. He joins Chris to talk about how Perovskites could lead to more prevalent (and printed!) solar cells.
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This week Dave and Chris discuss designing hardware without specifications, upcoming conferences, working with software services on distributed hardware and how to measure current over a large dynamic range.
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Adam McCombs joins Chris to talk about his love of scanning electron microscopes and all things in the world of minuscule measurements. Listen as he discusses repairing, moving and troubleshooting high complexity, high voltage machines.
