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#482 – Shine A Light
Today’s episode is sponsored by Screaming Circuits, who can place the newest and smallest pitch parts, even on low run, quick turn assembled boards (their specialty)
- Dave will be taking his new BlackDiamond spot 325 headlamp when he goes canyoning
- Lithium battery can be 4.8V out of the pack
- Forum on mfg
- Chris Church was on the Macrofab Engineering Podcast talking about the Coronavirus effects on manufacturing
- Bill Gates in documentary about viruses
- Zoom stock really taking off due to coronavirus
- DO NOT USE THIS CHIP
- NAS in the Trash (eevblog video)
- Intel C2000 atom processor bricks devices
- LPC clock 0
- Errata on C2000
- Episode next week will be with a designer who does 300 GHz + designs (?!)
- Chip of the Week: The Tibbo Plus1. It’s an all-in-one SOC that runs Yocto Linux.
- Chris has been challenged with board clearances and is hoping KiCad v6 DRC improves some features.
- Morse Blinkies as a Service: a web program by Ian Ross that generates circuits on demand…to make morse codes.
- It uses SKiDL, which is a text based netlist plugin for KiCad written by former guest Dave Vandenbout. Dave gave a keynote about SKiDL at KiCon 2019
- EEVblog JTAG video / Boundary Scan
- Tag Connect
- Making a toaster from scratch
- How we record the amp hour
Thanks to Simon Scarfe for the picture of the headlamp scariness