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  • Dave is having more microphone troubles.
  • Dave had to record earlier so he could go catch the first showing of The Martian
  • Back to the Future is only licensed with one theater in Australia??
  • Dave got a Fluke 8060, reminding him of our interview with Dave Taylor.
  • OSHWA came up with a new license, which caused a stir
    • EMSL wrote a response.
    • As did Boldport.
    • Can online education work for EEs? AMU is trying (with $12K of 'home equipment' required)
    • Dave has been looking at a new space but decided against it. His wife told him to "Be tidy" upon leaving.
    • Dialog is buying Atmel.
    • Johngineer mentioned on twitter how chip companies seem to halve every 18 months.
      • https://twitter.com/johngineer/status/645775176848797696
    • Microchip has a much larger number of SKUs than Atmel, simply based upon the PIC16 family. Also, they used to be called "Arizona Microchip".
    • The Volkswagon emissions scandalv is interesting because of how few engineers impacted so much. There was also a single engineer that discovered the mishap.
    • The documentary (about electronics in Australia) we have been mentioning for a long time (by Karl) has finally started being released in parts.
    • Seeed launched a new kickstarter for the RePhone.
    • Quirky is bankrupt. Bolt wrote about why they failed.
    • Chris is helping set up a conference for hardware along with Hackaday. If you'd like to apply to speak, use this link: http://bit.do/had_conf
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