3 Cent Micros And 1000s of LEDs

Welcome back, Mike Harrison of Mike’s Electric Stuff!

This week Mike joins Dave to talk about LEDs, low cost parts and tiny tiny components. The links below (links contributed by Mike). Chris is away on vacation and will return next week:

• UK electronics shows :
  • Engineering Design show UK
  • Southern Manufacturing show
• 7-segment displays for ants
  • Image from twitter
  • Product page ( bottom of page)
  • 0.8mm high digits :
  • Needs a wire-bonder to use
  • Used for head-up displays etc. for military ( can't use OLED due to limited temp range)
• News :
  • Jitx "Autorouter".. I think (Hackaday article)
    • Pricing of Jitx
  • World's shortest scheduled flight to go electric
  • Apple iphone warranty fraud
  • $3.7 Billion...!
  • Boston Dynamics at it again!
    • Parkour
    • Dancing dog will kill us and dance on our graves
    • James Bruton's openDog project
• Useful stuff :
  • Online gerber viewer
  • LCSC (low cost parts site from China, part of JLCPCB)
    • DC-DC converter with chip buried in PCB
  • Mike's Ethernet decoding scope add-on
• Mike's recent installations, as seen on his consulting site page Whitewint