A House of FR4
- Dave is negotiating a new lease for a lab space. His lab will be combined with his office.
- Dave also wants to build a mobile phone jammer for the lab, but the ACMA (FCC of Australia) might not like that... CTIC
- EEVblog video about compliance
- Chris points out the Water Abundance Xprize winner, which was apparently debunked
- Thunderf00t's video about Waterseer
- Fontus
- Bill Gates on a recent episode of Ezra Klein talking about the real needs for philanthropy (hint: not tech related)
- OLPC
- "You're not going to build a house out of FR4"
- Chris started a forum for individuals who work as consultants (currently at about 50 people). Want to join? Fill out this form. An example topic was them talking about how to take vacation as a consultant, among much more technical topics.
- Chris will be at the Hackaday Superconference next week
- Boldport Club is changing
- Sagan started soldering
- Dave enjoyed this old magazine article about a DIY chip (it was an April fools joke)
- A listener asked on The Amp Hour subreddit about "The Fall of PIC Microcontrollers"
- PIC on wikipedia
- Dave said they became the defacto because of the standard and the cheap interface
- "The horse has bolted"
- People still use PICs regularly. For example, Mike Harrison (guest host for episode 412) uses PIC32s for many of his designs
- Microchip Masters is a regular conference throughout the world for Microchip products(with the largest one in Phoenix) each year.
- There is a new Hardware Happy Hour (3H), also in Phoenix. If you're in the area, check it out!
- Chris got to chat with former guests Joe Grand and Joe Fitzpatrick about the questionable Bloomberg article about implantable spy chips.
- Both of them are (were) on a panel at BSides Portland about Hardware Implants
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