The Amp Hour

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  • There was a large electrical fire where Chris lives in Chicago.
  • Chris is launching a new course for Contextual Electronics making a board with Bluetooth and cellular.
  • This lead to Quectel sending him a development board for the EG91
  • DB9 is still alive! It was paired with a RS-232 chip on the dev board Chris got
  • Dave is doing a 5 part series about programming the 3 cent micro
  • The first one is about making the programmer
  • Dave wants to call out the "$0.01 linear regulator", the SSP6206
  • The cheapest regulator on Digikey is the NCP115, but it has a PITA package to solder (1mm x 1mm!)
  • Carl Bugeja calls out a haptic driver (meant for the buzzer on your cell phone) that can be used as a small motor driver.
  • Chris has been dealing with smaller pitch parts using his new microscope. This model was recommended in a recent Voltlog video about microscopes.
  • XC6206 is another low cost linear regulator.
  • CE forum post about microscope recommendations
  • HEPA fume extractor video
  • Alvaro explains his part setup at home
  • Review of a $100 handheld scope
  • Dave has also done a cheap handheld scope review
  • Flux removers
  • Working with magnet wire
  • Ripping caps off of a board
  • "Are we the baddies?"
  • KiKit panelization tool in KiCad
  • Limor from Adafruit panelizing boards in EAGLE
  • Knocking parts off of a board with a chisel (eWaste Ben)
    • Thanks to Mark Ittleman for the image of the pita on a conveyor
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