Two and a Half Orders of Magnitude

500 episodes of goofing around, including during our only in person meeting

Episode 500! About 10 years in! (our first show was August 10th, 2010)

• Dave consolidated a BOM on a recent video
• Analog Discovery 2's are out of stock just about everywhere: a mixture of sourcing problems and high need for schools
• Dave noticed a mistake while doing a breadboard class
• James (Baldengineer) goes over the Miller Plateau
• Dave watches some ahem...interesting...movies on Amazon Prime
• Motivation of school/gym
• The Skywater PDK was announced. Tim Ansell (past guest) will return next week to discuss more.
• Dave predicts Apple will buy a semiconductor company
• "Cheap as chips"
• DIN now has an OSHW standard. Read the actual standard here.
• DIN connector
• DIN is a German standards agency
• Okie Dokie Dr Jones
• ESP32 s2 review by Andreas Spiess
• Former guest Sam Zeloof shows off how he does photolithography in his home semiconductor lab.
• The Coming Chip Wars of the 21st Century (Steve Blank)
• Capacitor factory video
• Chip printer (we all knew that was coming)
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• Anton Petrov channel explaining papers
• RF PCB simulation cookbook
• The Navy Electricity and Electronics Traning Series
• "IoT in 5 Days" eBook (from 2015)
• Alan Wolke has been putting out videos about VNAs (that Chris wish he had access to a few months ago!)
• The Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
• Chris has been reading "Ultralearning"
• Want to win a dev board from QuickLogic? They are running a Crowd Supply campaign for the "QuickFeather". Answer the questions below for a chance to win:

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