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Proof Of Blink

Episode Ep 404 August 27, 2018 1 hr 7 min

Proof Of Blink

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

Chris has decided to once again hang his shingle and do design consulting via his company, Analog Life, LLC
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This is after a year at Hologram, who have changed directions on hardware, leading Chris to look for design opportunities elsewhere.
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Art installation
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Dave doesn't like consulting
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Startups offering equity
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"Proof of blink"
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Things to do when you're stressed:
- Write about how you're feeling
- Talk to (your significant other)
- Learn something new
- Publish something
- Go for a walk
- Meditate
- Go through your contacts, reach out to people you haven't talked to in a while
- Read a book
- Ponder the nature of the universe and how massive it is and how not much really matters after all
- Think of ways to make a difference
- Mentor younger engineers
- Ask for advice from more experienced folks
- Answer forum posts
- Listen to music
- Play some music
- Post a funny tweet about electronics
- Post a business idea to Twitter
- Do a live stream
- Create a silly piece of PCB art
- Ask Twitter what they want to learn right now
- Plan a training course
- Listen to an off topic podcast or audiobook (fiction)
- Do some pushups!
- Drink a biiiiiig glass of water
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Rightsizing
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Magic smoke escape tag
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110 GHz scope from Keysight
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Shahriar visited the LeCroy factory to look at a previously "fastest scope" front runner (100 GHz)
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Forum post about the inside of the scope
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Dave is doing another meetup Weds Sept 5th
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IMTS is coming up in Chicago. Chris will be doing a meetup with the folks from Bolt and there is a meetup at mHUB with former guest John Saunders.
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Dave did a Live Stream trying out KiCad again
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Dave is looking at a learning system using KiCad
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Olimex does high end SBC boards using KiCad
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Eagle moving upmarket
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Altium Nexus
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Traps in chips (EEVBlog #1115) showcases why it's important to read the datasheets
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Bunnie's talk at ToorCamp
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Finding bugs in datasheets
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Goodfear badge
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Leaded Zeppelin (see below)
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Chris just put in a talk for Supercon. You should too!
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Thanks to Tomás J. Sepúlveda for the picture of the blink man

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