Martin Lorton is thinking about selling off his stack of gear. Chris is excited for the opportunity serendipidy might bring.Dave got an email about how to find a new job. One way is to just email, using a tool like Email Hunter. However you should be very cognizant of the person's time you are emailing.Louis Rossman made a cryptic video about the future of his channel. It might turn out ok. Chris hadn't heard of him until Louis did a popular AMA.The Juno probe has gotten to Jupiter and was successful!The Megaprocessor is awesome. 43.2K transistors. Should people learn processors? Maybe. But there probably isn't time for the general EE audience.Rudolf Kalman has passed away. If you don't know, Kalman Filters are present in many sensor applications these days.EAGLE was bought by Autodesk (for an estimated $20M, no official numbers). Autodesk has a large suite of tools now:FusionInventorTinkercadCircuits.ioAdafruit did an interview with Dave and Chris's former co-worker (worked with both of them individually!). Matt didn't answer all the questions.Chris thinks a CAD tool is like Religion. You're not changing without a "Catalyzing Change Agent"Circuit Maker continues to lack features, but Altium finally reduced the price on Circuit Studio, which puts it into competitive territory.Surprisingly, Chris still recommends learning KiCad (using something like Getting to Blinky)Our episodes will start uploading to The Amp Hour youtube channel. This will allow deeplinking of the audio.Dave has been releasing videos of his chat with Karsten about space electronics.We will be having a call in show next week! Email [email protected] if you'd like to join in on Skype. Chris will be in Chicago from the 15th to the 17th! Get in contact if you'd like to hang out ([email protected]) Limor did an interview with the CEO of Digikey.The Daredevil Camera is a fantastic use of paralleled signal processing!Dave had forgotten he already made a video about orders of magnitude back in video 286!Thanks to CGPGrey for the image of the bottles
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