Chris is selling a "Bodge" shirtDave has a new outro on his latest repair video.Chris just got back from SXSW down in Austin. They used to have lots of chip companies, some of which remain:AMD sold to Global FoundriesSilicon Labs is still there.Freescale and IBM are somewhat reduced.The panel Chris was on included former guest of the show Scott Miller of Dragon Innovation. The topic was DFM for getting to scale. Chris focused mostly on making designs robust.Another trend at SXSW was IoT and ways of controlling the software layer. The physical interfaces to these devices still leaves something to be desired.Chris mentioned the industrial HART standard as a possible analog to the problem that connected light switched need.Artificial Intelligence just beat a world Go champion 4 games to 1. Dave likes the Numberphile video explaining the math of chess.Chris has been making 2 minute videos trying to explain problems that beginners don't know much about when starting out. Things like electron flow vs current flow, what ground means. Dave has made a video asking, "Does current flow through a capacitor?"This may end up becoming a book some day, titled Top down electronicsThe Hackaday Prize 2016 was announced! It's new judges and new structure this year. The Keysight scope contest is having lots of legal woes giving away scopes.What would happen if The Amp Hour started a political party? What does it look like if an engineer was in charge of legislation? What do they optimize?Dave mentioned the TED talk about Basic Income. Chris said this is an eventual solution to "what happens when robots take all of our jobs?".The BeagleBone organization is participating in the Google Summer of Code and you can help out!Great bumper sticker, "The cloud is just someone elses computer"Another interesting BBB project, the Bela works for super low latency audio. Mike's video about the layers of a PCB was awesome! He machined each layer at a time to expose the copper. The 1953 Transistor documentary by Bell is a great retro look at the early days.A user posted some fun pictures of the Shenzhen markets. 
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