Something's Serially Wrong Here
- Dave was asked to be an expert witness...no way! Past guest Jack Ganssle has done this many times, as has Michael Barr.
- Dave's rebranded multimeter is up for sale soon and he has been struggling with WooCommerce.
- Both Chris and Dave have put out unintended public links/posts.
- Security in general on IoT is terrible, you can now search webcams that are just open on the internet.
- Up until the late 70s, the Nuclear launch codes in the US were 000000.
- Bunnie is crowdfunding a new book about electronics in Shenzhen. Both bunnie and Akiba have been on the show in the past talking about this topic (as have others!)
- Chinese new year is coming up! Beware! Shouldn't we just make it an (electrical) engineering holiday?
- Chris has been working with Class D Amplifiers as part of Contextual Electronics. It's a new field for him.
- FTDI is back at it, bricking chips with their interface software in new and innovative ways.
- Dave makes the comparison in PR to the Fine Brothers, who recently had a drastic turnaround in their asshattery.
- If you need an alternativeUSB to serial, try the MCP2200.
- Jonathan is launching the beta for PCB.ng, a new assembly service that is priced by the area of the circuit board.
- The Hackaday square inch contest would do well pricing their assembled boards in this way. Dave had a project called the uRGB.
- Dave is hoping to start assembling his pick and place machine kit (on a cart?)
- The Aeroscope is a new wireless with impressive specs. We'll need to wait on the cost and the actual performance.
- Bluetooth Smart can talk to both BLE and BT classic.
- The dean of MIT graduate education is leaving to start a new school with no degrees, majors.
- Udacity has been announcing a lot of interesting things like Nanodegrees and paying students back for finishing in 12 months.
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