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#545 – Fear of Banjos
- Dave has been dealing with a hard drive failure
- They were set up in a RAID5 configuration, but it’s still risky for data loss/corruption
- SMR, CMR
- Macrofab took investment from Altium recently
- The Macrofab Engineering Podcast had the head of ecosystem partnerships on the show talking about manufacturing data.
- Dave was surprised to learn that chip manufacturers pay for search rankings on distributor sites
- Ex macchina (movie) portrays AI
- Chris believes there would be benefis to opting in to some data stuff from distributors
- Chris is moving to the Research Triangle (RTP) area of North Carolina from Chicago. He currently lives a few blocks from Big Willie (The Willis Tower)
- Eli The Computer guy is down in Asheville (2.5-3 hours away from RTP), as well as past guest and friend of the show Martin Lorton
- Wendover Productions on why there are so many shortages
- The “Research Triangle” area is near Raleigh (NC State), Durham (Duke), and Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill) and their associated Universities.
- You can roughly translate 10 square feet to 1 square meter. Chris found a garage/lab that had a 1200 sq ft lab/garage/shop with an apartment above it
- Dave shows off other peoples’ labs during mailbag videos
- Jeff Keyzer has been rehabbing old HP gear. Chris sent his 8753D to be cared for during the move.
- Matterport scans do a 3D capture of real estate for sale. Check out the “dollhouse view” for maximum effect.
- Chris has started working with Golioth, a new IoT startup by Jonathan Beri. Jon was on episode 526 talking about what makes IoT difficult, where he hinted at Golioth. Chris joined after some discussions around helping out.
Thanks to Wikipedia for the images of the banjos