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#500 – Two and a Half Orders of Magnitude
500 episodes of goofing around, including during our only in person meeting
Episode 500! About 10 years in! (our first show was August 10th, 2010)
- Dave consolidated a BOM on a recent video
- Analog Discovery 2’s are out of stock just about everywhere: a mixture of sourcing problems and high need for schools
- Dave noticed a mistake while doing a breadboard class
- James (Baldengineer) goes over the Miller Plateau
- Dave watches some ahem…interesting…movies on Amazon Prime
- Motivation of school/gym
- The Skywater PDK was announced. Tim Ansell (past guest) will return next week to discuss more.
- Dave predicts Apple will buy a semiconductor company
- “Cheap as chips”
- DIN now has an OSHW standard. Read the actual standard here.
- DIN connector
- DIN is a German standards agency
- Okie Dokie Dr Jones
- ESP32 s2 review by Andreas Spiess
- Former guest Sam Zeloof shows off how he does photolithography in his home semiconductor lab.
- The Coming Chip Wars of the 21st Century (Steve Blank)
- Capacitor factory video
- Chip printer (we all knew that was coming)
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Anton Petrov channel explaining papers
- RF PCB simulation cookbook
- The Navy Electricity and Electronics Traning Series
- “IoT in 5 Days” eBook (from 2015)
- Alan Wolke has been putting out videos about VNAs (that Chris wish he had access to a few months ago!)
- The Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations
- Chris has been reading “Ultralearning”
- Want to win a dev board from QuickLogic? They are running a Crowd Supply campaign for the “QuickFeather”. Answer the questions below for a chance to win:
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