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#382 – The Toggle Boggle
- Dave has been dealing with an over-zealous, “over-unity” power…person.
- Ring was bought by Amazon. It was on Sharktank as DoorBot.
- Our Survey is still open and we have had some great responses. You can win a 1000X if you take the survey. Results will be posted later.
- Dave’s wondering how people prefer to control power supplies.
- Maplin is finally shutting down. They have taken the slow nose dive behind Radio Shack and Tandy.
- Toggle the bot
- Chris has a soft goal of “no longer saying he’s bad at software“. He’s been using the educational JLink debugger from SEGGER.
- State of Electronics keeps posting nice videos lately
- Visiting the LIFX bulb factory
- Machine plastic
- Microchip is looking to buy Microsemi. (after the show was recorded this was confirmed).The latter makes FPGAs and was always jockeying for the number 3 or 4 position with Lattice (who make the parts described by Clifford Wolf when he was on the show)
- Amazon also bought a company making chips that are used in low power video monitoring equipment.
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- Update: Dave’s testing with Toggle may have been all for naught!