- Wired stuff still wins for reliability...especially if it's fiber! Wifi continues to be unreliable for most things.
- Chris has an Amazon Echo in the AirBnB where he's staying. He's been talking to Alexa.
- Dave recently did a Sigilent Teardown.
- While in the Bay Area, Chris finally got to try out the CastAR.
- The HTC Vive is a true VR platform Chris got to try. It was designed by former guest Alan Yates and the controllers partially by regular guest Jeff Keyzer.
- UBM sold all of the assets around EETimes, EDN and more to Arrow.
- Newark/Element 14/Farnell was sold to a Swiss holding company.
- Intel's web/TV series "America's Greatest Makers" has a winner...a toothbrush.
- The makers of the ESP8266 have released a new model that has integrated flash.
- Chris started working at the same place that Bob Widlar started at (in Cleveland!). If you've never seen it, you can download the poster here.
- Tools that arean't used that often, but imporant to have on the bench.:
- Network analyzer
- IMTTI eye prober
- USB to RS485
- Chip of the Week: TPS54A20
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