Episode 209: Headless Units and Baseless Batteries - KiCad Kickoff Kopophobia - The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Chris recently announced that he is releasing all of the KiCad videos from the Contextual Electronics course.
There is also a new site over at KiCad.info and there is a forum to talk about KiCad at forum.kicad.info
We also still have an IRC channel! There are also channels for KiCad and Electronics on Freenode.
Dave used to own AltiumForums.com but they got antsy about him owning that.
The "Lithium Ion super cap in a battery" is being updated to say they're using homemade graphene capacitors.
The current requirements are insane, the dynamic current would be higher than most car chargers.
GE claims to have made a fuel cell breakthrough and are in early production.
Another gimmicky crowdfunding was someone claiming to have replicated Wardenclyff.
Weird Al has a new song about conspiracy theories called "Foil". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk
Dave recently got into OK Go videos, citing the Rube Goldberg as his favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
OK Go was part of the White House maker faire
Dave has camera woes after losing an entire day of footage going through old magazines.
National Instruments recently released a headless unit/multitool. The specs for the scope appear that they are using off the shelf silicon (100 MHz for 2 channels).
Dave mentioned that there is also a wireless head unit for multimeters from Agilent. It is ruggedized for field work.
Fluke also has been pushing their safety equipment.
The hard problem to solve is streaming data back across a wireless connection (especially if you expect it on a particular ).
Dave recently found that low scan rates on the RF section of MDO3000 lock up the keys on the scope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6R3uynR9Kk
A Cleveland accelerator is now looking for hardware startups.
Dave found out there is also a hardware accelerator in Sydney.
Many of our listeners will be tempted by VC/accelerator money as well. Just be sure you know why you're taking money for a company idea.
Ben Einstein of Bolt (another hardware accelerator) wrote a piece on why so much money is heading into hardware.
Littlebits released their CloudBit module, which connects their platform to the internet. Chris was interested to know that people are using it as prototyping.
Google is giving $1 million for the "Littlebox challenge". It's all about trying to get the maximum power density for a microinverter.
The EDA solver is meant to be a way to search through available components for a PCB and pick the best ones. It will be interesting to see if that kind of thing works for non-example designs.