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#563 – Grumpy Collaboration
- CM4 vs CM4-Lite
- The connector for a board implementing a CM4 is the Hirose DF40C-100DS-0.4V(51). Unsurprisingly, these are very hard to find right now.
- Complaints
- There is a new site for commercial Raspberry Pi stuff (now a .com domain)
- Apex Electronics in LA
- Tempo Automation is going public via SPAC
- Flux (a new online CAD tool) raised $12M
- This seems similar to Upverter, which was acquired by Altium and is still around in a slightly modified form
- Advanced designs
- Collaborative design work
- KiCad lost control of the kicad-pcb [dot] org domain name when it was sold by a former team member, everything should be directed to KiCad.org
- Dave insists that Wordstar pioneered the use of ctrl+c, ctrl+v
- Acrylic vs Silicone conformal coat
- Dave is looking at building his own microphone pre-amp using the THAT4320, an analog front end chip for audio systems
Thanks to freesvg.com for the Grumpy Cat image