Layout, CAD & Raspberry Pi - Kedogenous Kinetic Knowledge

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• No, the US will not be building a death star.
• Nor will they be moving to the metric system (aside from the fact that metric is already the official system)
• Chris highly recommends this (free!) book on analog system design.
• Dave references the Aussie classic, Young Einstein. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEL_BT_Z6Yg
• This Kickstarter project selling a dev board and started by a commercial company rubs Chris the wrong way.
• Congrats to the Raspberry Pi team for selling over 1 million units! Check out our interview with Eben Upton, the creator of the RPi, for more info.
• Patent trolls have been roaming the lands. One claiming they invented podcasts, many years past the date of their inception; another continually growing and shedding corporate shells (Intellectual Ventures) in order to avoid action against the larger company.
• Learning takes a long time. Listener Jope suggests this article about learning programming.
• Learning about chip layouts also takes a long time. This blogger reverse engineered an ST 24C02 sector 17 clock.
• If you're into learning about RF, check out this database of circuit designs and start building!
• Chris is geeking out about his new mill. He'll continue to make videos like this first one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ni-bSP-JZE
• We need a new slogan! Email your ideas to [email protected]
• Next week we'll have the CEO and the VP of Engineering from Touchstone Semiconductor. Keep an eye out for the post asking for your questions!