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#642 – Sad Violins for Superconductors
- Chris is developing a booming “dad” voice, perhaps?
- Memorizing modem sounds
- The Amp Hour turned 13 years old (episode 1 went out Aug 12th, 2010)
- The Fluke 87 is 35 years old
- Everyday DMMs
- Chris enjoyed Dave and Toby discussing the DMM a lineman uses
- Bryman
- Dave will be giving a talk at a University sooon…should he dress up like Bob Pease, the Czar of Bandgaps?
- Dave made a video about one of the LK99 groups
- What are the practical limits of superconductors?
- Meissner effect is how superconductors levitate
- Maglev trains
- Trains on YouTube
- Chris is working on a new board, the first time in a while
- Abandoned scooters around Seattle have RPi4s in them
- How did the 2n2222 get its name?
- A new group of semiconductor companies (Bosch, Infineon, Nordic, NXP, and Qualcomm) join forces on RISC V
- Former guest Mike Engelhardt releases a new spice version with Qorvo called QSPICE