A Keyzermas Story

Welcome back, Jeff Keyzer (@MightyOhm)!

• Jeff has been selling the MightyOhm Geiger Counter Kit and other products on Amazon
• He has also been consulting lately, helping clients with hardware certifications, regulatory compliance and EMC.
• These are separate tasks from product safety
• RyanAir is buying 737-MAX airplanes
• ESD is part of EMC
• UL testing
• CE combines EMC and product safety
• Radiated emissions testing
• Worst case testing
• We have had experts on EMC on in the past
  • Howard Johnson
  • Henry Ott
  • Eric Bogatin
• Near field vs far field
• H field and E field are separate
• Standards are changing for LiIon
• IEC60950 was the main standard for a long time
• IEC 62368 is replacing some of these standards
• Polluted rivers in Cleveland caused the Nixon administration to start the EPA
• Head tax in Seattle
• Chris and Jeff have both been living in/near the civil unrest happening in the wake of George Floyd's murder. The news plays up what's happening during protests, which are mainly peaceful.
• The Chaz
• Economic impacts of COVID
• Jeff has been working with older versions of Altium
• Mentor changes its name to Siemens EDA
• The Fusion / Eagle integration continues
• The KiCad dev conversation that happened at "KiCon 2020" talked about the features coming in v6
• We wanted to ask Jeff about abunch of the RF components we didn't understand in Episode 520
• The main one was the power transistor and how it is tuned to particular frequencies
• Miller capacitance between gate and drain
• "Cut and try engineering"
• Chris is still reeling from the Adrian Tang episode, with all the things he talked about.
• Jeff was working on devices that went into WLAN and the now-defunct WiMax
• All of the designs Jeff worked on were Gallium Arsenide
• Former guests/sometimes co-host Piotr Esden-Tempski is running a new crowdfunding campaign for the Glasgow Interface Explorer (rev C)
• Mark Rober is running a paid engineering course. Does it cost too much?
• "Sounds like MBA projects"
• Jeff has taken Tufte's visualizing information class
• Joe Barnard on the CE Podcast
• Starting real projects
• Looking to relax? Watch Nick Offerman drink scotch in front of a fire in a "Yule Log" style video (for 10 hours!)

Many thanks to our Patrons, for this and all the other episodes throughout 2020! We would be nothing without them. Check out Patreon.com/TheAmpHour if you’d like to join the crowd. A special thanks to our corporate sponsor Binho, who now distribute the Sensepeek PCBite.

That’s a wrap on 2020! Thank you for listening!!