Listen to your hosts Dave Jones & Chris Gammell talk about electronics design and the electronics industry in general. If you have any interest in electronics at all, from hobbyist/hacker/maker to engineering professional you'll find something of interest here.
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#447 – Voltnuts for Flashlights
- Dave is sick! (it’s winter in Aussieland)
- Toy switches
- DC arc over
- Dave’s home solar system failed
- Louis Rossman has been dealing with water ingress on mac connectors
- Saturn PCB toolkit
- CR123A. Previously used for camera flashes, now used in torches/flashlights
- Specify battery packs in Wh
- AAAA batteries
- Could electronics folks be trusted to do a design on its own?
- Design For Hackers (book)
- “Specialization is for ants”
- Designers taking apart a Tesla
- Alerting cost problems in the design phase
- Selective solder
- Scotty (Strange Parts)’s tour of PCBway
- Wave solder
- Maker Media, owners of Maker Faire and MAKE magazine shut down
- Silicon Chip has 1/10th of their magazine numbers
- EMSL did a nice retrospective
- So did Mightyohm
- Branding
- Infineon buys Cypress
- Backing for RISC V chip companies
- Rabbit 2000
- Chris will be at Teardown next week, hopefully recording.
- Dave…might start a conference?