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#322 – World Trade Futurity (WTF)
- Donald Trump is the president elect of the US. Dave (and Chris and the rest of the world) is asking “WTF?“
- Tesla500 ponders whether NAFTA being repealed would impact sales of a device from a Canadian to the US.
- Chris has been hanging out with Tony from adafruit who is working on MicroPython tutorials
- Dave got a large format poster of the Spectrum printed in his latest mailbag
- Chris got to hang out with Brent and Bryce from FaradayRF at SuperCon last weekend.
- More about SuperCon
- Akiba was there!
- Alan Yates gave a talk abut the Valve LightHouse. He also talked about this on a recent episode of Embedded.fm.
- Ken Shirriff from Righto.com
- Steve Collins from JPL
- Chris skipped Electronica, which is going on now.
- Two more acquisitions
- Qualcomm acquires NXP
- Lattice Semi was acquired by a private capital firm.
- Dave wrote old programs for Lattice devices. Chris started out with FPGAs using Altera’s Quartus.
- Muntzing technique
- EMI app note from TI
- One way to reduce EMI is to slow down the slew rate. Dave talked about this and more in an older bypassing video.
- Chris wants some kind of “Evernote for datasheets” that locally syncs datasheets over time. Does anyone know of a service like this?
- The satellite that came back online (back in 2013).
- Dave stayed up late for the European Mars landing but hoped for more pomp in the presentation. You can watch some of the archived videos here.
- Chris recalls XKCD’s depressing comic about Spirit on Mars (695).