AD620, DesignSpark, Instrumentation Amplifier - The Rant Rhetorical

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• Chris has a new bench!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7y-67xRo4

• New podcasts!
  • Vintage Volts is a podcast about electronics "back in the day" by Jeff Salzman.
  • The BeagleCast is a new podcast from the folks at BeagleBoard.org.
• Jaime (@jpwack) is the awesome dude who put together the text and processing behind the final Widlar poster.
• Tell your favorite chip vendor to get on Twitter!
• Dave doesn't like that Atmel uses a broken system to download programs. Shouldn't have to re-register for each download.
• Instrumentation amps are powering future applications of EEGs as a control device. One exampled discussed was the AD620.
• Why is Tyco switching to TE Connectivity? Re-branding is a waste of time!
• RS DesignSpark recently released their 2.0 software version. Also, we found out that RS = Allied.
• What will happen when the world runs out of jobs? NYT article on the falling demand for brains. Has already happened for lawyers.