The Amp Hour

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  • Contextual Electronics is up and running! You can still join in the "audit" tier, if interested.
  • Chinese New Year is coming, affecting production for many electronics companies.
  • Dave enjoyed the NSA gadget catalog (even though Chris and Greg Charvat talked about it 3 episodes ago!). It reminds Dave of the movie "Enemy of the State".
  • Dave's kickstarter is starting to ship out. In fact, his next round of boards is at the assembly house, run by a project backer/EEVblog fan.
  • Chris is super jazzed about the beta version of Circuit Hub Fabrication.
  • Dave got one of the first uArm Robots! Looks like a fun new gadget!
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4V1xPHL804
  • The cost of testing can impact the overall price of your project. Designing with decent tolerance parts can help remove the need to (extensively) test.
  • Google bought Nest for $3.2B. What the hell?
  • Nest actually acts as a wifi host in order to configure getting it onto your home network. New devices aim to be "point and connect".
  • Wiki paged containing a list of companies Google has bought. Nest was the second biggest behind Motorola Mobility, the cellphone division (for $12.5B)
  • Is this all just a money scheme for big VCs? It's crazy to think how much money is pushed around. And that's not all...CEOs in silicon valley conspired to keep wages down.
  • Dilbert attempts to explain why wages stagnate.
  • The new film Jobs was a bit of an dramatic exaggeration. Woz spoke out about it on Google+. He's also working on a script of the events from his perspective.
    • Thanks to Alpha for the picture of the cuckoo clocks
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