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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#457 – Dotty Ernest Annty Frost
- Chris spent too much of his camp working on giving a talk
- Dave winged it when he spoke at a Renesas 2010 event
- Dave recorded at the hotel room afterwards
- At Disneyland Star Wars you can build your own droid
- James Meigs of Popular Mechanics
- RF slides
- The talk Chris gave at CCCamp is now posted as well
- Hank Zumbalen on The Amp Hour
- App note “Staying Well Grounded”
- Book on RF layout
- Scotty from Strangeparts JLC video
- Does anyone know of a standalone loss leader factory?
- Dave building the programmer for the 3 cent micro
- $10B lost to trade war so far for Electronics Manufacturers
- Tariff
- During the show we found it acts like VAT or GST, it’s added to the end product/delivery area
- ie. Dave does not get charged Tariff even though he gets parts coming from China via the US
- Chris has started seeking out tutoring
- Mentorship
- Dave learning French and German
- The term “Professional Engineer” will be a protected term in Victoria (Australia)
- Wi-Fi was invented at CSIRO
- How to to pronounce various hexadecimal numbers, incluing 0xDEAF (“dotty ernest annty frost”)
Thanks to fdecomite for the picture of “Hexadecimal in the outdoors”