Fake it till you make it

A lot of design chatter this week! We obviously must be faking it!

• Dave is creating a new PCB for his Nixie project, Chris recommends they shop on PCB Shopper
• At the shared workspace Chris is at, Twisted Traces is doing bundled assembly.
• For a new industrial board Chris is looking at, he's considering an RS485 physical layer with an RJ45 connector and using Cat5 cabling.
• For a single master, multi slave configuration on a bus, he'll need to use DIP switches.
• Dave has used 1 wire Unique ID (UID) chips in the past, such as the DS2401.
• The Tiko 3D printer failed.
• CNLohr had some good war stories about making 2000 wifi/blinky badges for MAGfest
• Is something like the Chipeasy a requirement for your lab? It's still funding on Kickstarter.
• There are other tools that manage your in-lab inventory with software like PartsBox.
• Keysight will be giving away a bunch of scopes in March...and we're judging!
• Chris wanted to give some insight to people starting to freak out about the EE job search (hint: build stuff)
• Zachtronics apparently aren't the only ones making Hardware design video games. Is this a trend?

Thank to Ian Kennedy for the fake sign photo.