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  • Chris just got back from the Hackaday Superconference, where he got to hang out with/meet Ben Krasnow, Andreas Spiess and many others.
  • Flex PCBs
  • Scotty from Strange Parts (our guest last week) gave Chris iPad PCBs, which were pretty thin!
  • Transmission line impedance calculator
  • PCBs inside of cameras
  • Always easier to Pick and Place as a flat thing
  • 3D printing onto fabric
  • Dave and David found a thermal imaging watch project in the lab cleanup
  • Chris was impressed by a project that used a grid eye and a TI pico projector, built by former guest Robert Nelson
  • Chris was asking about off the shelf cases vs 3D printed ones.
  • This was discussed in our interview with Marcus Schappi when he talked about the  Ninja Blocks project
  • uSupply moving to 2 part die cast case
  • Video about how to do an SMD board to fit into two part cases.
  • Writing a datasheet first helps to bound the constraints of a board
  • Pleasing the last .1% of the customer
  • Chris will be doing assembly again this week and released an intro video about using the NeoDen4.
  • Past guest Piotr Esden-Tempski did a great video/stream showing how to do PCB panelization in KiCad
  • Chris didn't understand how panels were spec'd and you didn't need to put out a full panel size.
  • Mike's video about the fish installation talked about stretching what was possible with PCBs and assembly.
  • Dave's old DfM video(s) go over good practices for getting boards assembled.
  • Dave's move is going slow
  • Dave was mentioned on the Techmoan channel talking about Data Play discs
  • At the Hackaday Superconference, Chris gave a talk about common circuits that can protect designs
  • Jimmy Carter's Solar panel
  • Dave's experience with solar
  • Ergs per second are akin to kW. Do your own conversions online.
  • Check out Ben Krasnow's talk from Supercon, his deposition of electoluminescent material was particularly impressive (including the methods he used to drive them)
    • Thanks to pagedooley for the picture of the solar farm
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