EE Movies, Part Rants and SPICE.

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Shoutouts
- Solder Smoke is back! Bill is out in the HAM shack, broadcasting podcasts for all. Go catch the latest one!
- A podcast about DIY Drones, check it out and hear the most about the developing industry of unmanned personal drones!
Rants
- Chris loves the Webench tool from National Semiconductor...he just wishes there was a "prototype option".
- Dave was right, and not a bit afraid to tell everyone. Open Source Hardware (not just "Open Hardware") is the correct terminology...it's on the license!
- Why can't Amazon pay people globally? It's preventing Dave from retiring sooner! And if you live in Colorado, North Carolina or Rhode Island you are screwed.
Discussion Points
- What do you say? .001uF or 1nF? Not getting into another 555 timer debate, but still it's interesting.
- How much time should be put into simulating in SPICE?
- Apparently Oman needs electrical engineers that can speak Mandarin. Guess China is doing some work there?
- Free energy schemes are only free to those that run them, don't get fooled (no link, they don't deserve the press).
- Lots of component talk around Dave's video about designing for manufacturability.
- Jeff from Mighty Ohm found that if you call the IEEE, they'll stop sending worthless insurance offers and junk mail.
- There's a new movie about an electrical engineer to be done by the guy that directed "The Blind Side".
- The story of how Nathan Seidle got started with Spark Fun. A great read and similar to the Apple guys and how they bootstrapped their first products.