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#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!

#485 – An Interview with John Day

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John Day is a technical fellow and one of the top FAEs at Microchip. He has spent over 25 years working in various parts of the business and helping their customers design devices for the automotive, commercial, and industrial sectors (and many more!). John joins Chris to talk about microcontrollers and pinball.

#469 – An Interview with Craig J Bishop

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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.

#413 – A House of FR4

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This week Dave and Chris discuss micros going in and out of style, building electronics for philanthropy, bogus water harvesting techniques, spy chips and much more!

#309 – An Interview with Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith

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Stefan stops by to talk with Chris about High Voltage power supplies, conductive paint sensors, field testing solar chargers and working on HUGE art installations.

#298 – Don’t Turn It On, Don’t Take It Apart

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Chris and Dave discuss why engineers join startups, how to decide how open source a product should be, the role of modules and ego in design, sourcing decisions and more!

#287 – Pull The Trigger

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Dave and Chris talk about cash flow, scopes, online dev tools, early microcontrollers, bodge wires, revision control, 3d modeling and more!

#52 – An Interview with Jeri Ellsworth – Carnassial Chip Chemicals

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Jeri Ellsworth returns to talk home made chips, software defined radios, companies giving the warm fuzzies and how not to spill HF acid.

#44 – BASIC, Chip companies & Robots – Pernicious Projects, Puppies in Peril

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Dave and Chris talk about the perception of chip companies, robots and corporate silliness

#43 – An Interview with Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum – Audacious Arduino Arguments

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Dave, Chris, Jeff Keyzer and Jeremy Blum discuss the latest in electronics news, including Google’s decision to use the Arduino.

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