Back Into The Swing Of Things

After a recovery hiatus, Chris and Dave are back to record a show. No, it’s not any better than it used to be. The downward trend continues.

• Chris relaunched Contextual Electronics! There is a new site for serving up content and a bunch of new content on there with more on the way!
• There is also a new Contextual Electronics forum!
• The EEVblog forum was discussing a recent hackaday article about whether former guest Robert Ferenec's Fedevel course is worth it. We think so!
• We had lots of responses on our educational loans survey, thanks! Here are the results (no identifying info included).
• Check out the highlights from the EEVblog/Amp Hour meetup in Sydney!
• You can see where Voyager2 is currently.
• Check out the EEVdiscover videos about the dish we went to go see in Canberra.
• Chris attended the (rainy!) Science March in DC.
• Nvidia is releasing a next-gen GPU board called the Volta
• At the Melbourne meetup, Andy Gelme mentioned that machine learning is the way forward robotics. It may obviate (or reduce) the need for Inverse Kinematics.
• Before Dave got the BSOD, Chris was reading about Chicago's various maker spaces, amateur and pro.
• Dave has a work experience student for a week and was dismayed at the lack of options they have at that school.
• Dave ordered boards from Elecrow during his Nixie tube video.
• TED -> DAVE
• Should you build your own SMT line?
• Chris is building the ControlLeo2 reflow oven at home.
• Video Speed Controller plugin makes any HTML5 video faster or slower.
• Industry news
  • Owner of MIPS is looking for a buyer
  • SiFive (who use the RISC-V architecture) raised 8.5M dollars.
  • There are efforts to make AI specific chips (outside of just GPUs)
• Chris will be out at Maker Faire next week giving a talk (4:30 on Sunday) There are other fun events too! Here's what Chris will be at:
  • Thursday May 18th - HDDG21 featuring former guest Avidan Ross as a speaker.
  • Friday May 19th - Paella Dinner at Maker Faire (invite required, Chris is going as a speaker)
  • Saturday May 20th - Hackaday's Bay Area Maker Faire Saturday Party 
  • Sunday May 21st - OSHpark sponsored Bring A Hack party