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#370 – Alternate Info Sources
- Dave had some strife switching his workstation over to Win10. Chris had some strife with…talking this week.
- The 121GW Kickstarter is live! (wasn’t during recording). It uses the Hycon HY3130 multimeter chipset.
- Psychology of crowdfunding campaignsHackaday is putting out a new journal
- Autodesk just laid off 13% of their workforce
- Digikey releases an atomic footprint library for KiCad!
- The dangers (and historical context) of “bottom view” of footprints
- KiCad 5.0
- There’s a room at FOSDEM 2018 for Open CAD projects
- Colin Furze AMA
- List of Electronics youtubers over on the EEVblog forum
- Coin cell challenge
- Amazon announced their version of FreeRTOS at the Re:Invent conference
- Jack Ganssle (Embedded.com? EEtimes? Can’t find a link with Jack talking about it) has done RTOS surveys and a large percentage “roll their own”
- Tesla unveiled a large truck. How the hell will they charge that thing?
- Silicon is “Unforgiving,” Says Apple’s Chip Chief Johny Srouji (duh)
- An internet of things flop means some connected lights won’t work anymore
- Solid state battery technology from uTexas, with R&D lead John Goodenough (great name!) Thunderf00t did a video about the “perfect battery”
- An interview with a toy designer.
Thanks to the manchester library for the picture of magazines