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#460 – Rubber Ducking
- Chris has been reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, among other things
- Debugging with GDB
- Jay Carlson on Embedded.fm
- The Amazing $1 Microcontroller
- EEVblog2 video with David, using volatile inside interrupt routines
- Rubber ducking
- Keeping notebooks
- A scan of an engineer’s notebook from 1978 while designing the Atari 400 and 800
- Grass Valley Group, later merged with Tek
- Chuck Peddle interview
- Dave’s video about engineering notebooks
- What are modern versions of lab notebooks? Evernote? One note?
- Feature Phone from Germany (CCCamp)
- The $8.70 “mystery item” was in fact a Process Meter (DMM with a constant source built in)
- Boston Dynamics is now commercially selling their Spot robot
- Buying industrial robot
- Former guest James Bruton
- Re-using stuff you know
- Former guest Jeri Ellsworth is crowdfunding the Tilt5 project. She talked about this on episode 394, specifically how CastAR burned out and how she was buying the assets to restart as Tilt5.
- Being disciplined during troubleshooting
Thanks to evarinaldiphotography for the rubber ducky photo