October 22, 2012

Kickstarter, Open Source RC & Modelsource - Facinorous Financial Foulness

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For those interested, there is also now a transcript available for episode 118

This week Chris and Dave get talking about the intersection of money and electronics and all the craziness that can ensue.

Yes, Chris still has far too many web sites, many of which are dormant.

Chip Report TV is going strong, there's a new one available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uOmNP-J4e8

ChrisGammell.com just got a refresh, though is the same content.

Engineer Blogs is dying, much to Dave's disappointment.

Chris's other podcast, The Engineering Commons, is going strong and has new episodes every 2 weeks.

And if that weren't bad enough, Chris is talking about starting a kickstarter! What a nutjob.

Would you start your own Kickstarter? Why or why not?

The Open Source RC project is not going to continue development.

A123 has also declared bankruptcy and sold its assets to Johnson Controls. There's an article detailing what went wrong there.

Solyndra also folded, but more likely due to designing for the wrong variable: the price of polysilicon.

The Altium Founder and CEO has gotten the boot from the board of directors.

Boards of directors are in it for the shareholders, no one else. NXP is pondering splitting the company. Hope it doesn't affect our designs!

Design Spark did a website refresh and has a (new?) feature called Modelsource that allows you to download footprints for a variety of CAD software.

There are other paid systems that are out there, like Ultra Librarian from Accelerated Designs, but is it worth it?

James Dyson has invested $8 million in a student incubator. Would you spend your fortune on something like this?

Do you need to remain a CTO to make it as a nerd, even if you start your own company? Is Bob Dobkin (from LT) able to survive because he's kept doing the tech stuff he loves?

adafruit has bootstrapped their own space and it looks huge and awesome! Photos by @bekathwia. Congrats!

Amazon rumored to be looking at buying the OMAP line from TI? Does this make sense?

Cool BGA routability guidelines from Xilinx. Looks like artwork!

Dave had never heard of a Rorschach Test. Chris had really only known about it because of The Watchmen :-)

What kind of Myers Brigg personality are you? Take the test here and then let us know below.

Thanks to espensorvik for the picture of the money, phone and coke.

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October 22, 2012

Kickstarter, Open Source RC & Modelsource - Facinorous Financial Foulness

Listen Later

1 hour 10 minutes

[display_podcast]

For those interested, there is also now a transcript available for episode 118

This week Chris and Dave get talking about the intersection of money and electronics and all the craziness that can ensue.

Yes, Chris still has far too many web sites, many of which are dormant.

Chip Report TV is going strong, there's a new one available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uOmNP-J4e8

ChrisGammell.com just got a refresh, though is the same content.

Engineer Blogs is dying, much to Dave's disappointment.

Chris's other podcast, The Engineering Commons, is going strong and has new episodes every 2 weeks.

And if that weren't bad enough, Chris is talking about starting a kickstarter! What a nutjob.

Would you start your own Kickstarter? Why or why not?

The Open Source RC project is not going to continue development.

A123 has also declared bankruptcy and sold its assets to Johnson Controls. There's an article detailing what went wrong there.

Solyndra also folded, but more likely due to designing for the wrong variable: the price of polysilicon.

The Altium Founder and CEO has gotten the boot from the board of directors.

Boards of directors are in it for the shareholders, no one else. NXP is pondering splitting the company. Hope it doesn't affect our designs!

Design Spark did a website refresh and has a (new?) feature called Modelsource that allows you to download footprints for a variety of CAD software.

There are other paid systems that are out there, like Ultra Librarian from Accelerated Designs, but is it worth it?

James Dyson has invested $8 million in a student incubator. Would you spend your fortune on something like this?

Do you need to remain a CTO to make it as a nerd, even if you start your own company? Is Bob Dobkin (from LT) able to survive because he's kept doing the tech stuff he loves?

adafruit has bootstrapped their own space and it looks huge and awesome! Photos by @bekathwia. Congrats!

Amazon rumored to be looking at buying the OMAP line from TI? Does this make sense?

Cool BGA routability guidelines from Xilinx. Looks like artwork!

Dave had never heard of a Rorschach Test. Chris had really only known about it because of The Watchmen :-)

What kind of Myers Brigg personality are you? Take the test here and then let us know below.

Thanks to espensorvik for the picture of the money, phone and coke.

...more

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