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#516 – Thermions Aren’t A Thing
- Chris has been diving into work (to ignore the US elections). He has also been enjoying OTA DFU with Nordic parts
- 1K video on EEVblog. There was also a Hackaday 1K contest.
- BLE112 module
- USB PD
- Vishay Thermal jumper
- Thermal design
- Pick and place heat sink
- “Thermion”
- “Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong” by Tony Kordyban
- Customized heatsink
- 345 KV / 34.5 KV videoes from 2 weeks ago
- Rolling blackouts
- Helicopter maintenance of power lines
- FE exam
- Delta and Wye configurations
- Dave is wrappin up his lab move. He made a video about his custom storage for under bench.
- Chris is also moving his desk home from mHUB (while staying a “shop” member) since COVID in the US is spiking (again)
- Sparkfun introduced the A La Carte (ALC) service for creating PCBs with a point and click menu. This is similar to the Gepetto service from Gumstix. We expect to see more of these “non-layout based PCB tools” in the future.
- AMD is buying Xilinx for $35B
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Thanks to Wikipedia for the picture of thermion(ic emission)