The Amp Hour

Back Into The Swing Of Things

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After a recovery hiatus, Chris and Dave are back to record a show. No, it’s not any better than it used to be. The downward trend continues.

  • Chris relaunched Contextual Electronics! There is a new site for serving up content and a bunch of new content on there with more on the way!
  • There is also a new Contextual Electronics forum!
  • The EEVblog forum was discussing a recent hackaday article about whether former guest Robert Ferenec's Fedevel course is worth it. We think so!
  • We had lots of responses on our educational loans survey, thanks! Here are the results (no identifying info included).
  • Check out the highlights from the EEVblog/Amp Hour meetup in Sydney!
  • You can see where Voyager2 is currently.
  • Check out the EEVdiscover videos about the dish we went to go see in Canberra.
  • Chris attended the (rainy!) Science March in DC.
  • Nvidia is releasing a next-gen GPU board called the Volta
  • At the Melbourne meetup, Andy Gelme mentioned that machine learning is the way forward robotics. It may obviate (or reduce) the need for Inverse Kinematics.
  • Before Dave got the BSOD, Chris was reading about Chicago's various maker spaces, amateur and pro.
  • Dave has a work experience student for a week and was dismayed at the lack of options they have at that school.
  • Dave ordered boards from Elecrow during his Nixie tube video.
  • TED -> DAVE
  • Should you build your own SMT line?
  • Chris is building the ControlLeo2 reflow oven at home.
  • Video Speed Controller plugin makes any HTML5 video faster or slower.
  • Industry news
    • Owner of MIPS is looking for a buyer
    • SiFive (who use the RISC-V architecture) raised 8.5M dollars.
    • There are efforts to make AI specific chips (outside of just GPUs)
    • Chris will be out at Maker Faire next week giving a talk (4:30 on Sunday) There are other fun events too! Here's what Chris will be at:
      • Thursday May 18th - HDDG21 featuring former guest Avidan Ross as a speaker.
      • Friday May 19th - Paella Dinner at Maker Faire (invite required, Chris is going as a speaker)
      • Saturday May 20th - Hackaday's Bay Area Maker Faire Saturday Party 
      • Sunday May 21st - OSHpark sponsored Bring A Hack party
        • Thanks to Halfrain for the picture of the swings.
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