B Plus Boards and D Minus Cities - Uneath Urban Ubication

• Chris went to Detroit with the Hackaday guys for the Red Bull Create competition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYtahfsS0M
• The population in the 60s was about 2 million people, it's now below 600K.
• The art culture in Detroit is great, encouraged by low priced living and a variety of urban landscapes to work with.
• Previously Chris had been at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for recruiting. Dave doesn't understand how big companies chase graduates.
• Chris really enjoyed Backyard Brains, who make kits for measuring brain activity. They were controlling cockroaches and scorpions.
• Another company they visited was Pinocc.io, a mesh based connected device platform: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLER2I1r2-U
• Another connected platform, Spark just raised $5M after having going through the HAXLR8R program and raising $600K on Kickstarter.
• Not all crowdfunding projects work out so well though, a $3.5M project failure has disappointed their backers and shown that hardware is not guaranteed.
• An article about embracing hardware on O'Reilly is probing the idea of why hardware has become more prevalent and what we'll do with the data.
• Our cousin podcast, Embedded.fm was talking about IoT as pet rocks last week...it's novel but mostly sits there after the fact.
• The Sydney Maker Faire is coming up again, less than a year out from the last one. It will be held at the Powerhouse again.
• Chris got to visit the Ford museum in Dearborn and see the massive power generation capabilities.
• The Raspberry Pi B+ was just announced the other day, it has improvements and fixes over the original version.
• These are being produced by/with Element14, who also recently started offloading manufacturing of the Beaglebone.
• The BeagleBone has been integrated into lots of commercial projects, which makes it difficult to keep them stocked.
• Dave has been searching through old magazines to find mentions of the 74 series logic mentioned last week. See below for some shots of the magazines.
• Next week on the show we'll have Nadya Peek, who works at the Center For Bits And Atoms on reconfigurable, custom CNC machines. Very cool!

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