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Documentation Is A Waste Of Time

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  • Travel and potential meetups!
    • Chris will be traveling in April to Europe.
      • Berlin for 2 days
      • London for 2 days
      • If you can help set up a meetup for The Amp Hour, please email [email protected]
      • Chris will be giving a talk at Hackaday Belgrade and attending Resonate.io
      • There may be an Australia trip and subsequent road trip with Dave in August. Maybe we could see the telescope in Canberra and listen to Voyager.
      • Chris will also be in Austin at SXSW next week at the Hardware House.
      • Bunnie was on embedded.fm talking about design culture in China. You can still preorder the book here.
      • There is fidelity loss in documentation, especially if you're relying on key designers. Dave has once been told "Documentation is a waste of time".
      • Cut and paste in documentation used to be just that. It was all stored in A3 folders (in Australia). 
      • The Rasberry Pi 3 was just released! They are still focused on education (as Matt Richardson told us about on the show), but are continuing to integrate more features like wifi and bluetooth.
      • Dave just got a high speed camera (1000 fps) and is looking for things to film. He did a test shoot looking at a VFD (that Chris used to work on!).
      • The Gates foundation put out their letter about energy and time. Energy stuff does't usually square with super heroes.
      • Chris thinks photosynthesis (or general biological conversion) is an interesting way to eventually harvest energy.
        • Thanks to phobia for the shot of the fail documentation
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