Episode 130: Boeing, PCBs & Startups - Awful Airplane Aeration - The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

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National Instruments buys Digilent!
Though Chris doesn't use it much MATLAB is a nice high level math tool
Octave is the free version with less features and plugins.
Project Euler (pronounce "Oil-ehr") is a place you can practice programming by solving math problems.
Marketing expert Seth Godin says he doesn't use Twitter because he's too busy making things. Touche, marketer.
Circuit hub is a place to download parts for all different types of CAD programs using DropBox. Looks great!
KiCAD Cloud is a place to pull KiCAD specific components, made by another listener (Joe Ferner)!
Would you start a company with a stranger you met through an online site? Founder dating is the place to do it (and engineers are highly desirable! Though probably sw).
There are more and more hardware startups. There are now hardware meetups all over the place.
Boeing has had some issues with their LiIon batteries. See the discussion in the EEVblog forum for more details.
Chris has been blogging about his new CNC machine at ChrisGammell.com
Dave did a video reviewing old ads in editions of Electronics Australia from the past 30 years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgTF32aQJUo
The Hioki Calcu Hi Tester is a combination calculator and DMM!
Why can't any meter beat the Fluke 27's 1000 hour battery life?
How do you know where to draw the line on design? When to outsource and how much? Or are we all just oompa loompas?
If you want to give your boards a programatic and artistic flair, try out PCBmodE.
Akiba of FreakLabs.org, Bunnie Huang (former guest of The Amp Hour) and designers from the MIT Media Lab toured around Shenzhen visiting factories. Check out Akiba's great blogging about it!
The MeCam is a super low cost (<$50!) quadcopter with big promises. We'll see if they deliver.
Plastic injection molding is cool...and makes stuff so cheap.
Is Mexico the new China?