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#646 – Fan Fanboys
- Chris is out of stock on Tindie and will no longer be a seller (though he was barely one to start with). Props to all the sellers out there!
- Media mail is a low cost post option in the US
- Colin Mitchell allowed people to pay with stamps instead of money orders back in the day
- There is always a struggle for hardware engineers to price a product at the value in the marketplace and not just the cost of parts
- Teardown of DHO800
- Heatsink testing (live during the show)
- CFD
- Controlled depth routing
- We discussed Joe Grand’s thin boombox last time, Dave watched a talk where he explained more of the process
- Scotty from Strange Parts did an awesome tour of the JLC PCB Flex factory
- Skewed expectations
- Dave was wondering why during the production assembly of scope that they populated caps but not silicon
- Intel is investing in ARM, RISC V (say what now?)
- eBay U1273A meter
- Old stock
- 30 year old tek chips