Amazon Moves In, Dave Says Run
- Amazon is getting into the IoT cloud business.
- Chris views this similarly as Electric Imp with the server and the client (the small battery powered device). Brandon was on the show talking about it.
- It's not always just pushing commands down to a battery device. Sometimes the devices publish to graphing services like analog.io/imp.guru.
- Adafruit and Sparkfun also have publishing services, which Dave thinks will be hopeless against a service like Amazon.
- Amazon has a set of development boards that already work with the service.
- While Dave doesn't think the second place people will work, he has uploaded videos to Daily Motion (vs YouTube) as a hedge in case they ever usurp the big dogs.
- Pirate Electronics is a nice electronics educational program online. However, they recently wrote about why they chose Python for microcontrollers (which aren't actually micros), which seems like they are optimizing for the wrong thing.
- National is making some older parts EOL, though it may be that it's only certain versions of chips (packages, lead free, etc). The LM567, a tone detection chip, is on the list of EOL.
- Dave asks about how a die shrink works at a fab.
- Analog and Maxim Integrated may soon be....integrated. What will we call them, Maximalog?
- There have been over $110B in mergers so far this year.
- Dave remembers how Maxim released new databooks consistently. Referencing the parts contained within required the cross reference in the index.
- Parts.io is now fully open to the public, no registration required. Chris was also on The Sparkgap Podcast talking about how to find op amps (and Parts.io as an extension of that).
- The conference that Chris is helping set up (The Hackaday Superconference) is now open for registering for tickets.
- There will soon be a 19 hour flight from Perth to London. Dave recalls traveling 48 hours (with time changes) to get to Europe.
- You can communicate with the Amsat Fox-1, which is now in orbit.
- Chris is back on the robots train. What won't automation and robotics do into the future?
- The Skarp had funding suspended on Kickstarter. What does this say about future projects that have a "prototype".
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