The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

• Chris got to hang out with Jeff Keyzer while in Seattle (he was on the show!)
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• There were other podcasts recording at ToorCamp. Past guest Alvaro of the Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast was recording and the Darknet Diaries were also there.
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• Dave has been working on Custom LCDs. They were delivered and Dave got them tested.
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• Scotty from Strangeparts visited the JLC board house
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• PCBshopper is where we normally point people to find a good board house.
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• Dave made a “How to panelize” video
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• KiCad has an append tool
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• Chris tried out a gerber based tool called FAB3000
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• There’s a tool that is open by a company called “This is not rocket science”
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• Chris will be using the NeoDen4 at mHUB
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• Chris will be giving a KiCad workshop at the Hardware Hacking Village at DEF CON
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• This will be similar to the 4.0 version of Getting to Blinky
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• eMeter teardown by YouTuber called “Play with junk”
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• KiCad 5 is on the way
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• It is able to read in EAGLE files, Chris was discussing OBD++
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• Altium crippling Circuit Maker with a random sleep timer?
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• Looks like Upverter will be taking over in the future anyway
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• Adafruit released CircuitPython 3 
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• The US tariff on Chinese electronics and equipment went into effect on July 6th.
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• This was partially in response to stolen IP from Micron technologies
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• The Macrofab podcast had a good discussion on it and an article explaining how it might affect you.
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• Past guest Bunnie Huang also wrote about how this will impact hardware designers
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• Want to learn more about digital logic? Play the NAND game!
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• There’s a new hacking game out called ExaPunks, made by the company of former guest Zach Barth (makers of Shenzhen I/O)
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• Zork
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• Mel Chua wrote about education for deaf engineers and the difficulties of teaching engineering in sign language
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• The Hackaday Superconference was announced! Submit a proposal to a great hw con
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• Arm may have been playing dirty with a site about the RISC-V instruction set. It has since been taken down and was hopefully a misunderstanding.
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