The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

• Chris has decided to once again hang his shingle and do design consulting via his company, Analog Life, LLC
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• This is after a year at Hologram, who have changed directions on hardware, leading Chris to look for design opportunities elsewhere.
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• Art installation
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• Dave doesn’t like consulting
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• Startups offering equity
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• “Proof of blink”
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• Things to do when you’re stressed:
  • Write about how you’re feeling
  • Talk to (your significant other)
  • Learn something new
  • Publish something
  • Go for a walk
  • Meditate
  • Go through your contacts, reach out to people you haven’t talked to in a while
  • Read a book
  • Ponder the nature of the universe and how massive it is and how not much really matters after all
  • Think of ways to make a difference
  • Mentor younger engineers
  • Ask for advice from more experienced folks
  • Answer forum posts
  • Listen to music
  • Play some music
  • Post a funny tweet about electronics
  • Post a business idea to Twitter
  • Do a live stream
  • Create a silly piece of PCB art
  • Ask Twitter what they want to learn right now
  • Plan a training course
  • Listen to an off topic podcast or audiobook (fiction)
  • Do some pushups!
  • Drink a biiiiiig glass of water
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• Rightsizing
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• Magic smoke escape tag
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• 110 GHz scope from Keysight
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• Shahriar visited the LeCroy factory to look at a previously “fastest scope” front runner (100 GHz)
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• Forum post about the inside of the scope
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• Dave is doing another meetup Weds Sept 5th
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• IMTS is coming up in Chicago. Chris will be doing a meetup with the folks from Bolt and there is a meetup at mHUB with former guest John Saunders.
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• Dave did a Live Stream trying out KiCad again
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• Dave is looking at a learning system using KiCad
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• Olimex does high end SBC boards using KiCad
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• Eagle moving upmarket
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• Altium Nexus
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• Traps in chips (EEVBlog #1115) showcases why it’s important to read the datasheets
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• Bunnie’s talk at ToorCamp
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• Finding bugs in datasheets
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• Goodfear badge
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• Leaded Zeppelin (see below)
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• Chris just put in a talk for Supercon. You should too!
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Thanks to Tomás J. Sepúlveda for the picture of the blink man