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#595 – Trade Show or Conference?
- Chris just got back from Embedded World in Nuremberg where he was showcasing stuff for his company Golioth. Embedded World is happening again in March 2023.
- Electronica is another German trade show happening in November in Munich (above image is from 2014 Electronica)
- Are there any good remaining US based trade shows? Or outside the US?
- Howard Johnson episode
- DaveCon
- Browsing at trade shows is one of hte main benefits
- Dave’s son is taking an online cosmology course
- “AI layout” company raises $25M
- Freight DHL
- RS-449 has um…a lot of pins
- VT100 “Dumb terminal”
- EIA
- IEEE1394 (which was branded FireWire for Apple’s implementation)
- Chris has been reading Tony Fadell’s book Build
- New Raspberry Pi Pico W is $6 and has an RP2040 and WiFi
- Dave is interested in the PIO. The Embedded RPi team talked about PIO on the show.
- The net effect of shortages
- Inside Curious Marc’s lab (Daniel from Keysight hosts tour)
- Former guest Zach Barth has decided to shut down Zachtronics (maker of ShenzhenIO) to pursue other projects.
- Turing Tumble