Alteritous Andy's Absquatulation

• Chris visited a FabLab today (not a fab!) to work on some projects and hang out with friends.
• Chris has also been reading Neil Gershenfeld's book of the same name, FAB.
• Melbourne had its first MakerFaire, though Dave was not able to go, unfortunately.
• Dr. Howard Johnson offered rewards for finding errors in his book, much like Don Knuth did for his programming book.
• Chris is officially a ham! His callsign is KD8RND! (Dave is warming up his vocal chords)
• Do you prefer calling or emailing?
• Andy--PhotonicInduction on YouTube--announced he's officially shutting down his YT channel (NSFW language possibly).
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC-IYP1xjow
• Dave got and has unboxed his MakerBot Thing-o-matic. Chris met one of the 3D printing competitors today from MakerGear.
• This American Life on NPR had a great feature on how consumer products are made, specifically Apple stuff at Foxconn.
• OpenCores is now taking donations for their development of an Open RISC processor.
• Cory Doctorow had a good speech at 28c3 about the impending closing off of electronics systems in the future.
• A process engineer managed to sneak some fun stuff out of a fab:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmrBs3BX9SQ
• Dave is building a ArduCopter currently but new types of quads keep on getting released. The AR Parrot 2.0 has a 720P camera mounted on it and is only $300!
• Friend and IT Guru Alan Garfield was miffed that MicroChip doesn't provide command line tools anymore. Are IDEs the only way, in the eyes of vendors?
• Chris is making videos for the soon-to-be-released CEE (started on KickStarter)
• Shonky Product of the Week:
  • The HojoMotor is a perpetual energy motor based on permanent magnets (how original!). The video is frigg'n hilarious! Watch it before the site is shut down! ;-)
• Chip of the Week:
  • Listener Clifford Wolfe writes in about the LMC6042 because of the 2 fA (typ) input bias current for sensitive applications.
  • Chris also likes the LMP7721, which specs 3 fA typical (Chris mispoke, the max is actually 20 fA).
  • Dave and Chris like any chip that offers an upgradable option (through binning or otherwise)!

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