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Welcome back, Mike Harrison of Mike’s Electric Stuff!
This week Mike joins Dave to talk about LEDs, low cost parts and tiny tiny components. The links below (links contributed by Mike). Chris is away on vacation and will return next week:
UK electronics shows :
Engineering Design show UK
Southern Manufacturing show
7-segment displays for ants
Image from twitter
Product page ( bottom of page)
0.8mm high digits :
Needs a wire-bonder to use
Used for head-up displays etc. for military ( can’t use OLED due to limited temp range)
News :
Jitx “Autorouter”.. I think (Hackaday article)
Pricing of Jitx
World’s shortest scheduled flight to go electric
Apple iphone warranty fraud
$3.7 Billion…!
Boston Dynamics at it again!
Parkour
Dancing dog will kill us and dance on our graves
James Bruton’s openDog project
Useful stuff :
Online gerber viewer
LCSC (low cost parts site from China, part of JLCPCB)
DC-DC converter with chip buried in PCB
Mike’s Ethernet decoding scope add-on
Mike’s recent installations, as seen on his consulting site page Whitewint