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- Chris was notified (2x) that he has the opportunity to purchase Google Glass…for $1500. Dave and Chris Mims are both confused about this.
- There is news that Foxconn is planning on building them in the United States.
- Is it worthwhile to support your local economy for that reason alone? Or should the focus be on the business?
- Could Chris pay with a bag of pennies or dimes? The former would weight 900+ lbs! The latter, 75.
- Avoirdupois is a unit of measurement that neither Dave nor Chris had ever heard of.
- Chris just got back from a long weekend in NYC, where he got a tour of ITP, NYC Resistor and Adafruit. Thanks to everyone who showed him around!
- TinkerCAD is shutting down and moving on. Are other cloud apps at risk as well?
- Take a moment of silence the next time you read the Errata section of a datasheet. It’s likely that many hours were lost to discover it.
- Dave and Chris (and Jeff!) made the EE Times twitter list.
Durn shame that they’ve erected a registration wall.UPDATE: The registration wall is no longer triggering for us. - The tech content is still the best stuff on EE Times/EDN. Chris liked this article about ADCs and the specifics of ENOB/SINAD/etc, in addition to the classic articles by Bonnie Baker in the “Baker’s Dozen” series.
- Video tutorials are also a great way to promote products. Teach us and we’ll consider your product more often (the applications model). Chris enjoys the videos by Matt Duff of Analog Devices.
- Dave has seen tech videos gone wrong, specifically the over produced and expensive Altium Tech Tonight clips
- The survey results are in and the winners have been chosen (listen to the last ten minutes to hear the winners). Keep an eye out for the summary of the survey later this week. And congrats to our winners!
Thanks to Cesar Harada for the picture of the impromptu Google Glass…
Hi Guys,
How about offering the T-Shirt winners to fly either to Sydney or Cleveland (on their own expense) and purchase a shirt for 1500$ once design and manufacturing has been done?
Seems to work for google too and the amp hour is way bigger than this google stuff anyhow.
Damn, why didn’t we think of that!
Dave is sooo wrong about the google manufacturing thing – you never ever undercut/bypass your OEMs/ODMs.
Building homegrown manufacturing business would scare the shit out of all the Android phone/tablet manufacturers. They barely managed to avoid that with Motorola Mobility acquisition (layoffs, selling manufacturing facilities).
Look how much success M$ has in phone market after they forked their “partners” couple of times in a row over the years.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/06/microsofts_masterplan_to_screw_phone/
Arguing with engineers: http://bit.ly/13QV1q3
chick hosting the altium show… quite similar to booth babes
Sorry Dave, but Chris is right regarding undercutting your ODM/OEMs… The best example is ARM Ltd – no matter how much motivation to give back to the community, they will never manufacture competing devices with all their own licensees.
Also, as a foreigner engineer living in US for seven years, I have been following the visa situation closely and can side with Chris on this one: the visas are exhausted quickly and there was even some reduction in grants after the economic crisis of 2008 (not sure if this is normalized now). Also, there’s always the risk in bringing a lot of people and, after the visas expire, the expertise goes back to the country of origin. But I guess that is a risk that will always be there…
Chris, your pronunciation of some of the t-shirt winners’ names reminds me of the famous “PronunciationManual” youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJQg_NXLyxg
Your secret identity is busted!
I heard my name but no email. Was there another Stephen Hill?
Hi! Mindaugas here! Wow! Hearing Chris saying my name was such an unexpected surprise and a big fun. Sorry Chris, my name surely isn’t easy to pronounce for foreigners, but you did it quite well. So no worries. 🙂
By the way – some kind of name trivia: Mindaugas is the name of first and only king of Lithuania.
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“The Amp Hour. Show that grows balls”. 🙂
I just thought of our next T-shirt slogan.