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- We have a sponsor and a new form of advertising this week. Here are some of the links mentioned:
- Dave may be moving back to his old office park.
- Working in constrained space
- Chris mentioned that in Skunkworks they pushed to declassify some of their work because it was such a hassle.
- The SR71 was actually the RS71 but it was written poorly and they worked to just change the designation.
- Some videos of him teaching:
- Chris had previously confused Dave's friend Doug Ford (the microphone maker) with Doug Self (an author about audio principles)
- They have lots of events at CERN, including an upcoming one on analog computing.
- Astra is a new low payload, high frequency rocket startup out of the bay area.
- Former guests have worked there, but weren't able to mention it previously.
- Chris just finished the Elon Musk Biography
- We heard from our listeners about Starlink and were pointed at this fantastic animated video showing how it all will/might work.
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- Is it technically a DIP? Since it has staggered pins
- 2500V RMS
- Designing for transients
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- Putting a slot can help increase the creepage spec.
- Creepage and clearance changes with altitude
- Task switching
- Chris was on Embedded.fm talking about firmware, it will be out later this week.
- Former guest Ron Quan has a new book out about Troubleshooting. His past books were:
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