The Amp Hour

My Kind of Town

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  • Chris has moved to Chicago, among other life changes.
  • The Steam Controller Video shows the device was manufactured in the suburbs of Chicago.
  • Sadly, we didn't talk about it much, but Dave got to see The Woz speak!
  • Chris had to leave his bench behind, but that leaves the opportunity to build a new bench!
  • The Chicago hackerspace is Pumping Station: One, where Chris got to meet other technology folks.
  • On demand making services
    • Shapeways
    • Ponoko
    • Plethora
    • MakeXYZ
    • You can get rental test equipment, it's just expensive and only really targeted at high end stuff.
    • There is a manufacturing/hwstartup space launching in Chicago called mHub
    • Dave got a 50 year old watch with early transistors
      • Here are some pictures
      • Here is how it works!
      • The machining required for clocks is amazing. Check out Clickspring's channel for amazing videos on the topic.
      • The planar process for ICs was not invented until 1959 (found here), so Dave's (1963) watch has a single transistor
      • More mergers
        • Renesas is buying Intersil
        • On Semi is buying Fairchild
        • Check out this yet-to-be-updated map of semi mergers.
        • The Ampere will soon be redefined in how it's defined. We talked about standard measures with Jon (Prof Gears) a few months back.
        • Using Amazon prime, Chris got the "Learning the Art of Electronics" book same day. Dave is beginning to use the Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) service for his multimeters.
        • The LTAOE book is amazing! It's written a different style than AoE, even more conversational.
        • The White House invited 400+ hacker/maker spaces to a one day conference; they called the spaces "A National Treasure" which was awesome!
          • If you didn't notice, we skipped last week. Sorry about that! See the first half hour of the show to explain why ;-)

          Thanks to Roman Boed for the picture of Chicago

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