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#494 – The Two Person Rule
- Dave has been playing with a “Mint in box” Vintage Intel dev board
- Huffing my way to freedom
- Bake in the stackup on the gerbers, and they’ll always see it in the cam program
- Chris recalls Ted Yapo doing a test coupon for his sampling oscilloscope project.
- Dave talks about using the extra space on a panel to make test coupons in his panelization video.
- It was an “Instant sackable offense” at Dave’s past company for not ESD testing before coming into the lab, because they were working on boards that cost 6 figures.
- Chris has been thinking about team size (mostly because he’s normally a team of 1 or 2)
- Dave mentioned they always had a 2 person rule for board power ups, to make sure they didn’t miss any steps.
- Matt Parker’s book “Humble Pi”
- The Hyatt Regency tragedy reminded Chris of statics class. Tom Scott made a video about this as well.
- Team size also has Dave and Chris talking about Management. Dave didn’t mention much, but there was also a thread on the EEVblog forum about software management.
- Discussing troubleshooting and being happy when you find the source of a problem.
- AC switching on
- RCS radio
- Polaroid teardown
- Vintage Soviet control rooms
- Mimic panel
- Power topologies
- An app note from past guest Eric Bogatin about the differences between a TDR and VNA.
Thanks to Wikimedia for the truck picture we expertly photoshopped…