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episode 67: EP#67: Don’t Get Analyticized
Don't get Analyticized
- Parker
- Space Echo Facebook live Calibration. Tuesday at 4PM CST.
- Particle Photon IoT work.
- There needs to be an IoT for Hardware Engineers. If anyone has suggestions send us a tip!
- Stephen
- Pat Hensley who is the Mainstream Sales Manager over at Tektronics/Keithley and a listener of the podcast has let us borrow a Keithley DMM7510 multimeter.
- DMM7510 multimeter Specs:
- Voltage Sensitivity: 7.5 digit sampling (10nV min)
- Current Sensitivity: 1pA
- Resistance sensitivity: 0.1u OHM
- 14 ppm 1-year DC volt accuracy
- 60 ppm 1-year DC current acccuracy
- 24 ppm 1-year resistance accuracy
- Calibration of the Electronic Development Corporation (now Krohn-Hite)
- 501J DC voltage standard:
- Repair: Bought the unit dead and found two bad power supply regulators
- Raytheon RC4194TK
- ST Micro L7806C-T
- Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
- Reverse Engineering Space Invaders Sound Chip - HackADay
- Ken Shirriff
- 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip
- SiFive raises $8.5 million for licensable custom microprocessors - venturebeat
- RISC-V, a free and open instruction set architecture for modern microprocessors.
- They monetize it through customization and support, much like Linux companies do with their open source operating systems.
- HiFive1 development board sells for $59. Arduino format.
- Crashed Advertising sign reveals facial recognition command line logs - Twitter
- Anonymous Video Analytics (AVA) by Karios.
- In-Store Analytics, Live Heat Map of your store, VIP treatment for customers Intelligent Digital Signag.
- Analyze metrics like gender, age or mood to target ads relevant to specific demographics. Change displays in real time to fit different customers' needs.
- Reverse Engineering Space Invaders Sound Chip - HackADay
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!