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  • The 555 contest continues onward! Everyone is getting excited!
    • Dave's classic 1976 vintage Signetics 555 timer chip (which he destroyed! RIP). Can anyone beat it?
  • WOTW
    • William
      • L-shaped bench photos
      • Laurence White
        • Photo tour of the workshop
        • Mr. J from Boston
          • Home workbench
          • Radio gear
          • Rants
            • Dave doesn't like how all those cupcakes he's sending to US Senators have been blasted with high energy rays!
            • Shoutouts
              • Dino Segovis linked here from his site!
              • MAKE has a new live show! Great production value!
              • Discussion Points
                • Dave plays the lotto!
                • Plastic transistors are improving in the lab...could help for future printable electronics.
                • Using lasers in board/chip construction followup:
                  • @chrisindallas alerts us to PBeam technology for chips
                  • And laser board cutters are already available for £80K
                  • Cherish notes there are external forces pushing new methods to reduce chemicals in processing
                  • Perhaps the economy is picking up? NI plans to increase headcount 19% next year.
                  • ADI and NI have a free SPICE package that is pretty fancy. Bloated software but Chris liked it at first glance.
                  • Microchip still charges $900 for open-source software you can download and compile for free.
                  • Intel had a bit of a snafu with one of their latest chips. Time for heads to roll? Or is it a $700 million lesson like at IBM back in the day? (thanks to Eduardo for the link!)
                  • Videos
                    • David Bowie's Space Oddity
                    • The Brown Note (Noise) episode on South Park
                    • Mythbuster's investigation of  the (busted) brown note theory
                    • Super Awesome Sylvia
                    • WTF, mate?
                    • Another Gammell on YouTube has some cool soldering videos
                      • ...more
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