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An Interview with Dr. Kent Lundberg - Luculent Linear Legacy

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Welcome, Dr Kent Lundberg!

  • Kent has been a lecturer at MIT and now teaches at Olin College.
  • He also keeps a great blog called "Reading Jim Williams". Kent personally knew Jim through Jim Roberge
  • Kent also has a bibliography of all of Jim's publications, which were very numerous.
  • As fans of JW's will know, some of his app notes were epic. AN47 clocked in at 130 pages.
  • Kent has had one student in particular he remembers and has seen all over the place, including the cover of Wired: Limor Fried (AKA Ladyada) of Adafruit Industries.
  • In his control systems classes, he doesn't use network analyzers but uses Dynamic Signal Analyzers like the HP3562A.
  • Dave says "Bow-duh", Chris and Kent say "Bow-dee", Bode's family (but not him), say "Bow-dah". Dave has been to Bodie, California.
  • Kent is a fan of the Severed Heads, a long time Aussie band that did a lot of experimentations with synths.
  • Kent also has a bunch of synths of his own, including Moog and Dave Smith synths.
  • When he's not teaching, Kent consults for industry for analog. His company is called Keeling Flight Hardware, Ltd. "Flight Hardware" also refers to hardware that is ready off the shelf.
  • He also works at Lincoln Labs and has worked indirectly with Dr. Greg Charvat, who was a guest on show 115.
  • When he's not teaching or consulting, he also collects and repairs scopes, thanks to JW's inspiration:
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ODi7qSpYg
  • Kent has a 511, a 556 and a 7104. Great hardware! He also has one digital scope from the older era: 7854
  • Kent was the historian and editor for the IEEE Control Systems magazine and did a feature about analog computing.
  • Beyond all this, he's also an avid book collector and has hard-to-find books from the Rad Lab and the Manhattan Project (the ones that are allowed to be collected).
  • He's now developing a new class along with students to teach EE Prototyping. We can't wait to see how that turns out!
    • Thanks again to Dr Kent Lundberg for being on the show! Find him on Twitter at @DoctorAnalog or at the variety of sites linked above.
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