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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#512 – Design For Longevity
- Chris has a remote troubleshooting setup for his ABC boards
- Dave once designed PCBs over remote desktop
- Chris had to do remote chip design in college…while trying to learn Unix at the same time
- “The Best Software of PCB Design EVER” on the EEVblog forum
- Educational curriculum laziness (not wanting to make new content). We discussed this a little with Brock Lameres when he as on the show.
- CU Boulder has an IIOT learning track that looks interesting. But is it worth $500 per class? Maybe!
- Sydney / Dublin / Washington accord
- EEVblog #1175 video about accords
- Mike Engelhardt episode
- Playstation 5 (PS5) teardown
- We had a question on our subreddit about whether we get overwhelmed by learning electronics
- App note about MPPT on the BQ25895
- Past guest Dave Young has made a dev board for Voltaic that has built in MPPT directly on the charge controller chip (BQ24650)
- A DIY VNA that can go up to 6 GHz! (Chris stated the low cost VNAs can’t go past 1 GHz, which it turns out isn’t true)
- Shahriar’s Deepace review
- Charging plates
- Dave experienced the high speed charging problem on his Ioniq
- Dave reviewed electric buses and the infrastructure around them
- Luigi recommended a catch phrase for Chris at sign off