555 Contest, Computer Museum, Octopart - The Green Pen Hornswoggle

[display_podcast]

• Shoutouts
  • Thanks to Mitch (@mitpatterson) for linking to us from his site!
  • Alexander linked here too and asked about what to do when family and friends might not be interested in hearing about your latest project.
  • Octopart now indexes Digikey as well!
  • Electronics porn! Hi res photos of an old Microchip part.
    • Light can get into lots of parts and mess them up, not just the ones that are supposed to get erased.
• WOTW
  • Kibi
    • Workbench (clean)
    • Computer desk
    • Workbench (messy)
    • Current source
  • Darren Landrum
    • Bench Overview
    • Some tools
    • Under the bench
    • The audio bench
    • The YouTube guided tour!
• Discussion
  • Stories of audiofools: Green pens to "increase the audio fidelity" of CDs? Ha!
  • Jeff from Mighty Ohm posted some awesome pictures of the computer museum down in Austin
  • Chris and Jeri Ellsworth started a 555 design contest! Check out the contest site for more details and be sure to start your designs! The deadline is March 1st.
  • Zombie magazines! Is Popular Electronics coming back to life? Many veterans remember it fondly, Dave included!