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#477 – EcoWoke and Going Broke
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Dave and Chris have both read our Listener Survey feedback. We’re going to bring back:
- Chip of the Week (CotW)
- Call in shows – possibly by using an answering machine equivalent (leave a voice message for us)
- Starlink
- The Art of Electronics X Chapters are now available
- Chris admits he did not have Electro Magnetic Compatibility Engineering, the famous book by past guest Henry Ott
- SQ3R
- EEVblog reference – Easter egg – 9x.5
- Aircon switching on
- Coronavirus
- Chris is once again dealing with pick and place machines (NeoDen4)
- DHL are cutting back on deliveries due to the CoronaVirus
- Our Chip of the Week is the TTP223, available via LCSC
- Soft latching power circuit
- Remote troubleshooting
- When Dave sold kits in ’95, people dialed for a price sheet by polling his fax machine
- Particle is deprecating Mesh and will no longer produce the Xenon board
- Scott Miller on The Amp Hour a second time talking about Product-As-A-Service (PaaS)
- LastTissue thread on EEVblog forum
- Hasan Minaj from Patriot Act talking about Greenwashing and the Fashion Industry
- Eco-Woke
- Fry’s going broke?
- Arduino Pro announced at CES, it has a dual-core Arm Cortex-M7 and Cortex-M4
- John Teel of Predictable Designs tears down an Amazon Echo
- Looking for an editor for the podcast! Please email relevant experience to editor@theamphour.com