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Once Every Couple Months

Episode Ep 400 July 23, 2018 1 hr 3 min

Once Every Couple Months

From The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

Chris got to hang out with Jeff Keyzer while in Seattle (he was on the show!)
- 0:01:00
There were other podcasts recording at ToorCamp. Past guest Alvaro of the Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast was recording and the Darknet Diaries were also there.
- 0:02:00
Dave has been working on Custom LCDs. They were delivered and Dave got them tested.
- 0:03:00
Scotty from Strangeparts visited the JLC board house
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PCBshopper is where we normally point people to find a good board house.
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Dave made a "How to panelize" video
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KiCad has an append tool
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Chris tried out a gerber based tool called FAB3000
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There's a tool that is open by a company called "This is not rocket science"
- 0:14:00
Chris will be using the NeoDen4 at mHUB
- 0:15:00
Chris will be giving a KiCad workshop at the Hardware Hacking Village at DEF CON
- 0:17:00
This will be similar to the 4.0 version of Getting to Blinky
- 7/18/2018 5:51 PM
eMeter teardown by YouTuber called "Play with junk"
- 0:19:00
KiCad 5 is on the way
- 0:21:00
It is able to read in EAGLE files, Chris was discussing OBD++
- 0:21:00
Altium crippling Circuit Maker with a random sleep timer?
- 0:22:00
Looks like Upverter will be taking over in the future anyway
- 0:25:00
Adafruit released CircuitPython 3
- 0:28:00
The US tariff on Chinese electronics and equipment went into effect on July 6th.
- 0:29:00
This was partially in response to stolen IP from Micron technologies
- 0:31:00
The Macrofab podcast had a good discussion on it and an article explaining how it might affect you.
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Past guest Bunnie Huang also wrote about how this will impact hardware designers
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Want to learn more about digital logic? Play the NAND game!
- 0:44:00
There's a new hacking game out called ExaPunks, made by the company of former guest Zach Barth (makers of Shenzhen I/O)
- 0:46:00
Zork
- 0:49:00
Mel Chua wrote about education for deaf engineers and the difficulties of teaching engineering in sign language
- 0:51:00
The Hackaday Superconference was announced! Submit a proposal to a great hw con
- 0:58:00
Arm may have been playing dirty with a site about the RISC-V instruction set. It has since been taken down and was hopefully a misunderstanding.
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