Standing With Ahmed

• Dave just got back from Electronex
• Chris uses Boomerang to return emails. This is better than letting the amount of emails build up to the point of needing to "declare email bankruptcy"
• Ahmed, a 14 year old hardware enthusiast from Dallas, was arrested when he brought his clock project to school.
• Ahmed seems like a pretty collected individual for being a teenager. Here he talks about the experience:
• Mike from Hackaday wrote about building clocks in conjunction with NYC Resistor.
• Chris just got back from XOXO which was an emotional and awesome conference.
• In order to make more connections, Chris made a blinking badge.
• You can see past years videos on the XOXO youtube page.
• Chris is helping put together a hardware conference in November with Hackaday.
• The BB8 is a fantastic little robot, based on the Sphero.
• Elecia recently did a talk about the guts of the BB8 at the Hardware Developer Didactic Galactic.
• Chris from Bolt wrote about who is investing in hardware.
• After hearing him speak at XOXO, Chris had a chance to talk to Bryce from Indie.vc.
• Dave was surprised that OpenROV is taking investment. They also just launched a new Kickstarter.
• Argonne recently announced a breakthrough in the Mott transition...OK!
• You can write assembly language for a MIPS processor in the browser and simulate it!
• Chris thinks that most designs these days that people will just throw more horsepower at problems.
• Watch a talk relating semiconductor physics to Angry Birds.
• Saar from Boldport discusses the backwards nature of the EDA industry.

Next week we will have Luke from yCombinator talking about the program and their new focus on hardware!

Thanks to svofski for the picture of the nixie tube clock.