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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#478 – Optimization Beast
- We have a sponsor and a new form of advertising this week. Here are some of the links mentioned:
- Wave sign-up link (gets bonus entry)
- The ESD Checklist
- 4 easy ways to blow up your test gear
- Can a cable electrically damage equipment?
- Impersonation scam
- Dave may be moving back to his old office park.
- Working in constrained space
- Chris mentioned that in Skunkworks they pushed to declassify some of their work because it was such a hassle.
- The SR71 was actually the RS71 but it was written poorly and they worked to just change the designation.
- Barrie Gilbert of ADI has passed away
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Some videos of him teaching:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQNJVtcFrCc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sATM6gi7bn8
- Computer History Museum
- Chris had previously confused Dave’s friend Doug Ford (the microphone maker) with Doug Self (an author about audio principles)
- KiCon 2020 will be at CERN!
- They have lots of events at CERN, including an upcoming one on analog computing.
- Fermi is a national lab outside of Chicago
- Astra is a new low payload, high frequency rocket startup out of the bay area.
- Former guests have worked there, but weren’t able to mention it previously.
- Jeri Ellsworth (her most recent show talking about CastAR’s flameout)
- Todd Bailey
- Chris just finished the Elon Musk Biography
- We heard from our listeners about Starlink and were pointed at this fantastic animated video showing how it all will/might work.
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COTW – The OnSemi (nee Fairchild Semiconductor) FSBB20CH60C
- Is it technically a DIP? Since it has staggered pins
- 2500V RMS
- Designing for transients
- Creepage and clearance
- Putting a slot can help increase the creepage spec.
- Creepage and clearance changes with altitude
- How much time do you spend in various parts of your office/lab throughout a project?
- Task switching
- Chris was on Embedded.fm talking about firmware, it will be out later this week.
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Former guest Ron Quan has a new book out about Troubleshooting. His past books were:
- Build your own transistor radios
- Electronics from the ground up
Thanks to gideon for the picture of Domokun