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The Amp Hour #439 – Grow A Superbrain
- Chris will be dealing with everything after KiCon
- Cadence Allegro
- The downsides of someone showing you how to do things
- The Feynman method
- Pointer example
- Current through a capacitor
- Building up intuition first
- 100 page debate Walter Lewyn lecture on kirchoff
- Electroboom built a device to test the theory (which started the debate on the forum)
- Big Clive nearly put himself in the hospital!
- Dave had a Nobel Laureate — Barry Marshall — over to the lab
- Testing it on himself
- Article discussing the signal integrity decisions of the BeagleBone Black
- Eric Bogatin on The Amp Hour
- 1 in a million problems
- Dave’s example of a best case board
- gnd
- signal
- gnd
- signal
- gnd
- signal
- gnd
- signal
- gnd
- power
- Choice of termination might matter more
- Blind and buried is better than whole vias
- Chris made a video about what blind and buried vias look like
- PCB Shopper
- Getting coupons for PCB reviews
- Dave has been on YouTube for 10 years!
- There will be a KiCad course at Microchip Masters
- Latchup Conference is happening the first weekend in May in Portland
- Former guest Bil Herd is doing a video series testing high speed PCB
- Ring of Chronos high speed cameras
- Former guest David Kronstein and his company Krontech are coming out with new v2.1, they did a teardown of the camera
- Great Scott did a video about battery management
- Solar plus storage costs are under $0.10 per kwh
- Are the costs actually coming down?
- There’s nothing better than lithium ion coming soon
- South Australia installation Saved $40M already
- Chris has been listening to a book/lecture series about energy generation and storage
- The KiCad banana!
Thanks to lady traveler for the brain mechanics picture