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#428 – Setting Fire To The Tracks
- Chicago was so cold (the day we recorded this episode), the train company set tracks on fire to defrost them.
- Chris asked about dev kits/platforms people are interested in
- Migen for generating FPGA code
- CH554
- Paduk – 3 cent micro
- ST Micro family Dave is using doesn’t have eeprom
- Battery back SRAM
- Wear leveling
- 4 cent external eeprom
- Higher setup cost
- NeoDen4 video from NeoDen USA
- NeoDen7 with Yamaha feeders
- Hand assembly
- Sipeed M1 board has dual RISCV 64 cores for AI applications
- Chris started the FastAI course after reading Yuval Noah Harari books over the holidays.
- ESP32 has a new camera board
- OpenCV
- Hot dog/ not hot dog
- How much power a Raspberry Pi takes
- Hackaday just wrapped up the “Circuit Sculpture” contest
- Chris first saw this from Mohit Bhoite, one of the Particle EEs
- Dave had a patent chat with his brother in law (Phil) over the holidays
- How to become an engineer
- ZGlue is not a chip printer…but it could be an interesting way to piece together chips
- A history of chipmaking in Japan
- PCB Checklist
- Former guest of the show, Bil Herd did some high speed testing for Hackaday
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