Cheap Respins And A Time Machine - Multiscience Mercenary Marketplace
- Dave wrote a post about the economics of hardware.
- Chris now is part of the Google Helpout program. You can rent time with him.
- A previous program Chris was part of was Maven. He didn't like that it was just surveys.
- A version with actual engineering tasks is Proto Exchange, which is specifically for electrical engineers. CircuitHub is also setting up a marketplace for electronic work as more people want to get into hardware.
- The Embedded podcast recently had a show about hiring.
- Contextual Electronics had some (unintential) issues during the build, including a wrong footprint and a couple of reversed signals.
- Dave's advice for a checklist? Double check everything.
- Two things you need to get a great product
- Cheap respins
- A time machine
- eFabless is a new service for sharing a wafer and getting low cost custom chips. The low cost is the result of excess capacity.
- It uses an online compiler called Yosys, the author of which was on our subreddit.
- We assumed it was all digital as it is defined with verilog, but it might do mixed signal.
- Others deal with excess capacity by converting the fabs to grow lettuce.
- The ISEE3 satellite has been reclaimed!
- Elon Musk has been driving amazing companies, such as SpaceX. The recently announced Dragon V2 looks amazing. It reminds Dave of the ship in the film version of Contact.
- NASA is apparently planning to send people to Mars by 2035.
- Dave is reminded of the 40 day report.
- Watson (the computer that won Jeopardy!) will now be doing medical diagnosis.
- Google announced a self driving car that they are planning on manufacturing.
- Mentioned last week, manufacturing is moving from China to Mexico due to cost, logistics, agreements.
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