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

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This week it’s back to just Dave and Chris…almost feels weird without more people! We’ll get more guests on soon.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the episode and anything we might have missed! Thanks!   PS. To be clear, no puppies were hurt in the taping of tonight’s episode.

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  1. Thanks for the shout out guys! This was a great show! Two EEs talkin shit, joking, laughing, poking fun like a couple of nerds. YES!! This is the kind of show I like!! 🙂

    Best quote: Dave – “Would you like a penis enlargement? ”
    LMAO!!!

    … now to send out that invoice. 🙂

  3. Hoarders and collectors: this is why we can’t find decent surplus places in Oz. Pianos huh?
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    The Intel – Microsoft relationship seems to have been strained recently with Microsoft talking about versions of windows running on ARM. Is Intel trying to keep Microsoft on side with mobile offerings with some x86 compatibility?
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    LT3080 looks handy and verstaile but you’re right, it’s a little expensive.
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    I wouldn’t worry about topics that get people riled up. I think last week had the most comments since the show started.
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    JD

  4. Concerning ham radio events, the thing to search for is “Radio Rally”. From spring to autumn here in the UK, there are usually these sort of events most weekends. these are mostly flea-markets rather than active radio use. Having said that, a lot of them got turned into computer events, which is inevitable but nevertheless sad. Some of these new-comer “open source” Arduino type “Makers” should visit one and see that the stuff they think is new has really been going on for decades. UK people look here: http://www.rsgb.org/events/ US people look here: http://www.arrl.org/hamfests-and-conventions-calendar (just click SEARCH). Aussies look here: http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/events/

  8. chris and dave, not sure if you guys new this but Mythbuster’s Grant Imahara was on the Battle Bots show all the time!!!

  10. I live near a neat “flea market”/surplus store called The Reuseum it is in Boise, Idaho. They have a website with an online store at http://www.reuseum.com and always have neat stuff and just expanded. I am not sure how many people that live in the area listen to the show, but if they do and have not heard of it they should go.

    • Correction it is in Garden city, Idaho but it is just a suburb of Boise for all intent and purposes.

  11. Now I knew two Blokes with multimeter fetish, Dave Jones and Excavatoree.
    Do you guys Crack a fat on the sight of a multimeter?? : )

  12. Chris, The theme song is awesome.
    Also why is are Dave’s fishes on the left panel up side down ?

  13. Never been there – I live in CA, and go to the San Jose and Los Angles surplus stores that you guys have already mentioned – but I hear that the Mit Flea Market is good… http://www.mitflea.com/

  15. Dave: “(…) the Apocalypse.”
    Chris: “Speaking of bif companies…”

    lol

    Also, computers in cars, Microsoft’s car would probably feature Clippy: “I see you’re driving a sports car. Would you like a penis enlargement?”

  17. Hey Dave, I have a solar install, i signed up for the normal rate of payback on my panels (18c). When they upped the rate to 3 times (60c), 6 months later I knew this would cause the death of home solar in australia. They made it clear that the rebate program would only last as long as the money in the budget remained. So they wasted it and the program finsihed early. I won’t be signing up to the class action. I was only promised a normal rate and am happy with that.