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#523 – A Keyzermas Story
Welcome back, Jeff Keyzer (@MightyOhm)!
- Jeff has been selling the MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit and other products on Amazon
- He has also been consulting lately, helping clients with hardware certifications, regulatory compliance and EMC.
- These are separate tasks from product safety
- RyanAir is buying 737-MAX airplanes
- ESD is part of EMC
- UL testing
- CE combines EMC and product safety
- Radiated emissions testing
- Worst case testing
- We have had experts on EMC on in the past
- Howard Johnson
- Henry Ott
- Eric Bogatin
- Near field vs far field
- H field and E field are separate
- Standards are changing for LiIon
- IEC60950 was the main standard for a long time
- IEC 62368 is replacing some of these standards
- Polluted rivers in Cleveland caused the Nixon administration to start the EPA
- Head tax in Seattle
- Chris and Jeff have both been living in/near the civil unrest happening in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. The news plays up what’s happening during protests, which are mainly peaceful.
- The Chaz
- Economic impacts of COVID
- Jeff has been working with older versions of Altium
- Mentor changes its name to Siemens EDA
- The Fusion / Eagle integration continues
- The KiCad dev conversation that happened at “KiCon 2020” talked about the features coming in v6
- We wanted to ask Jeff about abunch of the RF components we didn’t understand in Episode 520
- The main one was the power transistor and how it is tuned to particular frequencies
- Miller capacitance between gate and drain
- “Cut and try engineering”
- Chris is still reeling from the Adrian Tang episode, with all the things he talked about.
- Jeff was working on devices that went into WLAN and the now-defunct WiMax
- All of the designs Jeff worked on were Gallium Arsenide
- Former guests/sometimes co-host Piotr Esden-Tempski is running a new crowdfunding campaign for the Glasgow Interface Explorer (rev C)
- Mark Rober is running a paid engineering course. Does it cost too much?
- “Sounds like MBA projects”
- Jeff has taken Tufte’s visualizing information class
- Joe Barnard on the CE Podcast
- Starting real projects
- Looking to relax? Watch Nick Offerman drink scotch in front of a fire in a “Yule Log” style video (for 10 hours!)
Many thanks to our Patrons, for this and all the other episodes throughout 2020! We would be nothing without them. Check out Patreon.com/TheAmpHour if you’d like to join the crowd. A special thanks to our corporate sponsor Binho, who now distribute the Sensepeek PCBite.
That’s a wrap on 2020! Thank you for listening!!