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#505 – Hardware Revision Control with Kyle Dumont

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Kyle Dumont of Allspice.io joins Chris to talk about revision control for hardware projects. Allspice takes Altium projects and makes it easier to see changes and do design reviews for new designs. They also discuss the nature of revision control and what makes it difficult in hardware situations.

#471 – An Interview with Matt Berggren

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Matt Berggren is a Director at Autodesk in charge of Fusion 360. He joins Chris to talk about the changes coming to EAGLE and Fusion, his history with the ECAD industry and how he used to be a co-worker of both Chris and Dave!

#404 – Proof Of Blink

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Dave and Chris discuss moving into the consulting world, high end scopes, low cost CAD and why your next LED project probably won’t involve blockchain.

#400 – Once Every Couple Months

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Dave and Chris chat again for episode 400 after a couple of weeks and many shows apart! They discuss video games, CAD tools, tariffs, LCDs and PCBs!

#358 – Mergers and People Acquisitions

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Chris announces he is changing jobs, Dave talks about threatened legal action from a shell company and we discuss a range of new mergers in the electronics industry.

#316 – An Interview with Robert Feranec

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Robert Feranec of Fedevel Academy stops by to talk about board layout, electronics design, open source hardware, freelancing and much more!

#306 – Catalyzing Change Agents

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Chris and Dave discuss the changes to the CAD landscape, how life changes can bring unexpected benefits and the proper way to approach contacting someone about a job.

#300 – Three Hundred Down, Three Hundred To Go

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Chris and Dave celebrate their 300th episode by waffling on like usual. Robots, art projects, layout, future predictions (and how they’re wrong), crowdfunding scams and more. Bingo!

#264 – The Cost Of Doing Business

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This week we discuss the implications of work culture at engineering companies. Also FPGAs, bootstrapping companies, acquisitions, the falloff of product quality and more!

#251 – Shifting Away From DIY – Pedetentious PnP Progress

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Chris recaps a visit to Maker Faire and the variety of robots seen, both pro and DIY. Dave talks about automation with new CAD software and the value of getting started in electronics.

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