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#565 – Here for a reason
- Great Scott has a new video about synchronous switching converters that was great!
- Chris was hanging out with a friend in the chip industry, talking about power converters. Past guests at chip companies
- Matt Duff (ADI)
- Hank Zumbahlen (ADI)
- Mike Engelhardt (LT)
- There was a presentation by Werner Johansson about doing a digitally controlled power circuit using Atmel parts
- Should Dave be programming in Aussie++? It is now “officially endorsed” by Dave
- In Dave’s 1024th video, he got really old code working
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has been released and is “the most efficient”
- Mentoring exercise talking to a student looking to get hired, Chris mentioned the student should get lots of tools in their toolbelt
- Dave expanded on us talking about Flux.ai last week in a video on EEVblog2 about tools
- Chris is now looking for an engineering laptop, but it really doesn’t have to be that different from a normal laptop
- The Framework laptop is modular, but how often will you use those features?
- Chris has been trying out the Sparkfun Micromod system, but thinks it will have limited usefulness
- Are modular standards doomed to fail over the long term? What are some good examples of a truly modular system? PC/104 is an older modular system discussed before (and is still around)