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  • Dave has been hacking the 1000x scope (in two parts!): part 1, part 2
  • The bandwidth is tied to Claude Shannon's Information Theory.
  • Dave did a monster survey! Over 10,000 respondents. Chris thinks that there might be a slight cult of personality going on.
  • The Vault 7 was a huge CIA leak to Wikileaks.
  • Chris has been loving The Idea Factory (which he just finished). It was very interesting learning about the personal nature of a lot of the big names. Claude Shannon was a huge tinkerer who built flame throwing trumpets and rocket powered frisbees and Chess playing automatons
  • The AWS outage affected a bunch of IoT devices. Jon from Superhouse.tv made a video about how some devices went down.
  • There were some super fancy electronics created that can survive on the surface of Venus.
  • Elecia and Chris from Embedded.fm are doing March Madness for Microcontrollers
  • Dave has used the Basic Stamp in the past. It's actually a layer programmed on top of a PIC part.
  • There is an IoT Teddy Bear that was insecure and leaked a bunch of messages and images onto the internet.
  • We can speed up terraforming Mars if we (somehow) install a huge magnetic field.
  • Chris only understands terraforming from watching Firefly.
  • The Martian has been released in a "classroom friendly version".
  • Electric meters are reporting 6 times lower than normal, but Dave thinks it's likely just power factor.
  • Chris wanted to talk about the dangers of hooking signals directly to platforms like a Raspberry Pi.
    • Thanks to volvob12b for the picture of Millford Sound
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