The Ben & Jeri Show

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WOTW
- None! C'mon people! But we did hear that some people have been building benches, such as John S. Can't wait to see them!
- Chris is planning a new bench as well! And has been doodling in Google Sketchup to get an idea of what he wants:
Shoutout
- Many well wishes to any listeners in Brisbane (CRAZY flooding videos if you hadn't seen it). If your lab got hurt and we can help find you some new gear, please give us a shout.
- There's a new site in town that gathers together engineering bloggers, similar to ScienceBlogs.org. The site is called EngineerBlogs.org and is looking for writers if you meet a small set of criteria.
Discussion Points
- One of our listeners Mike Cowgill was venting on his site about The Ben Heck show and that it's not more inclusive of a larger viewing audience.
- He also wondered why someone like Dave or Jeri (and her new video series) weren't picked up by Element 14.
- But Jeremy Blum was recently tapped to do a new video series with Element 14.
- Element 14 is starting to sell Arduino's from their store. The beginning of price wars?
- Arduino? Open Source? Stop talking about them! Glossywhite from the EEVblog forum wrote about how he's sick of those terms.
- TI is trying (and possibly succeeding) in busting into the market though...with all their free stuff!
- And back to the debate about printing chips, why not use lasers instead (once they perfect the board cutting version)? Much more accurate than printing.
- Analog Devices and the Analogue Dialogue is still turning out great content. This month, there's a helpful article about choosing capacitors for linear regulators.
- Other resources from ADI suggested by listener Carmen were the Op Amp Applications Handbook and the Data Conversion Handbook (both awesome and free).
- US President Obama has been talking about Engineers, whereas past presidents have lumped them in with scientists.

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