The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

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#567 – The Rodeo Drive of Electronics


  • “Time is a (flat) circle“
  • Dave has been making videos about jellybean components, the latest about references and regulators
  • PCB requirements
  • Pricing pressures
  • There was a fire in the Eurocircuits Hungarian factory. Chris was told about the DFM tool from past guest Joris
  • Digikey was mentioned in a recent episode of Planet Money talking about the runway in Thief River Falls
  • Wendover Productions talks about How Ocean Shipping Works
  • Digikey location on a map
  • Chris recently took a train to Washington DC
  • Dave warned Chris about doing electronics on public transport, as someone was recently arrested for messing around with a vintage camera
  • Adrian Studer from episode 450 makes an AIS receiver
  • Differential front end for AD2
  • Analog Discovery Pro
  • What kind of scope can I get for $30k?
  • Rochester Electronics
  • Most expensive component? Molex tool for 1.8M
  • New part from Renesas, a low logic size FPGA
  • Shared on Twitter from former guest, Steve Leibson!
  • Hard logic cores inside of FPGAs? Chris talked with Brian Faith of QuickLogic about this
  • Dave getting a Digikey catalog in a Swiss Air mail sack
  • This amazing mechanism:

https://twitter.com/BellTreeNursing/status/1457953376025526280

  • Sting operation where they manufactured their own smartphones
  • Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 
  • Thunder Below by Gene Fluckey (recommended on the Smarter Every Day sub series, which was awesome)


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 November 22, 2021  1h6m