Love Robots and Pantyhose Screens

Due to time constraints this week, we’re going to try going back to a mostly link-based page. If you find yourself really longing for silly and extraneous commentary encapsulating the links, be sure to let us know in the comments! Curious about the title of the episode? Now you have to listen to the show!

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• • The Pantyhose Screen!

• Events
  • Chris will be at ESC Boston
  • And the Open Hardware Summit!
  • Dave is going the BrizTube!
• Shoutouts
  • Shoutout from Jason! Thanks!
  • Thanks to Jon from Freetronics for the Arduino kit! Having tons of fun with it!
• Tech News
  • Hynix will begin production of the HP memristor
  • Digikey is huge! One billion dollars!
• Tech Discussions
  • Jim Williams: Analog Badass
  • Modularity in practice at Buglabs
  • Talking SPICE simulators and mentioned the experience of Flying Flux
• Rants
  • Iranian walking robot
  • Clay Shirky's book about Cognitive Surplus
  • Dave's followup to the calling out the IEEE about their Kindle review
  • Dave's experience with Digikey reminds him of the Tenacious D song The Government Totally Sucks!

They're not in order, but hopefully all of the links are included that we mentioned. If we're missing any, please let us know in the comments.

And finally, thanks to the folks over at The Conversations Network; The Levelator seems to have cured ALL of our sound woes! Holy moly was it easy and effective at making us sound good! Many thanks to George Graves for giving us the heads up!