Start / The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast / 652 for a couple weeks there

#652 – For a couple weeks there…

68 min • 28 november 2023

You may have noted a few weeks off in September…Chris was busy with a new kiddo!
Starship launch was awesome, but Blue Origin might beat them to market?
Chris has been troubleshooting some boards he had made recently. It was pre-baby so sleep deprivation can’t explain some of the screw ups!
PCB Carolina was a local tradeshow
TechTechPotato talks about layoffs at SiFive. Article about the layoffs.
RP1 show
RetroPie
Oversupply in the market is hitting some silicon vendors
Dr Michael Burry (highlighted in The Big Short) has been shorting the semiconductor industry
At the end of the movie the epilogue talks about how Dr Burry is watching water as well, possibly why he’s shorting semis?
Chris wondered if Steve Sanghi mentioned why they’re still in Arizona while he was on the show
Nuclear Diamond Battery video
SnapEDA
“off by one letter” error while ordering parts
PCF85063BTL vs PCF85063ATL
Scotty does a tour of the WorldSemi (makers of the WS2812B) factory, it’s awesome!
Ben Hencke of ElectroMage makes the PixelBlaze, which is a great way to drive LED strips
Dave was talking to past guest of the show, Andrea Morello, about future changes to Quantum computers
China is turning off exports of Germanium and Gallium, which could impact the upstream supply for the chip industry, including around specialty semis.
Breakdown
Bunnie writes about why the US shouldn’t put restrictions on RISC V (agree!)
KiCon has happened in Europe and China now, check out the talks on the KiCad YouTube channel.
Future (distributor) was acquired by WT Microelectronics out of Taiwan
Check out this 1975 tour of a UNIVAC manufacturing plant

Senaste avsnitt

#652 – For a couple weeks there…

Senaste avsnitt

#697 – LEDs Everywhere with Tim from Mitxela

#696 – It Works With Option Number 5

#695 – Making The Invisible, Visible with Sam Aldhaher

#694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs

#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn

#692 – Like a steam engine in your house

#691 – System Designer Lets You Try Every Part with Michael Gielda

#690 – Clap on, clap off, lights flicker

#689 – A Jumperless Breadboard with Kevin Cappuccio

#688 – The Tandy Train

#687 – The RP2350 with the Raspberry Pi Team

#686 – A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes

#685 – Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab

#684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture

#683 – Troubleshooting is the skill

#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool

#681 – Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel

#680 – Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks

#679 – Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon

#678 – All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya

#677 – Watt Is The Deal

#676 – Moving House (And Lab)

#675 – Changing Course with Shawn Hymel

#674 – Turtles as a Service

#673 – Lifelong Learning with Bitluni

#672 – Silicon Revolution with Matt Venn

#671 – NDA Sideshow

#670 – Engineering Careers with Circuit Break & James Lewis

#669 – Freelance PCB Design with Petr Dvorak

#668 – 50.0000 Ohms

#667 – Long Distance with CNLohr-a

#666 – Good Energy Citizen

#665 – Really long needle nose pliers

#664 – Simulating doors falling off

#663 – Motors on PCBs with Carl Bugeja

#662 – The non-Stinky Car

#661 – Blogging Electronics with Pallav Aggarwal

#660 – My Toothbrush Is Broadcasting

#659 – Altium…Acquired!

#658 – Uncle Al’s Eating Garbage Again

#657 – Automating the Home with Keith Burzinski

#656 – Pneumatic Tubes, Straight To The Home

#655 – The Twelfth Day of Keyzermas

#654 – Pseudo Code…Pseudo Good

#653 – Benjamin Cabé Nose Zephyr

#652 – For a couple weeks there…

#651 – Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling

#650 – Accessible ASICs with Andreas Olofsson

#649 – History of the Cathode Ray Tube with Kathy Joseph

#648 – The RP1 and beyond with the Raspberry Pi Hardware team