The Amp Hour

Prototyping, Machining & Accelerators- Mugwumps Mulling Milling

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  • Welcome to our new sponsor, Club Jameco! Be sure to check out http://ClubJameco.com/TheAmpHour to see the kit we discussed on the show today!
  • Cleveland got a bit of a drubbing from Sandy, but not nearly as bad as NY
  • The storm puts electronics and electrical system reliability into sharp relief.
  • What kind of redundancies need to be built into systems? Especially systems that are always online?
  • In Brooklyn, they're dealing with outages by charging with a fire-fueled charging device.
  • Congrats to Chris Anderson who has decided to work on DIY Drones full time. We're excited to see what they develop next!
  • Chris (Gammell) just finished Chris (Anderson's) new book, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution.
  • From Dangerous Prototypes, someone has deadbugged a BGA part in his prototype! Impressive!
  • And from their 7400 series competition, the discrete FPGA project is a cool look at how LUTs work!
  • Does the internet prevent people from deeper knowledge about systems (out of necessity)?
  • Dr Greg Charvat, guest on episode 115, told us about a new video that helps visualize electromagnetics waves. Awesome!
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=calCoF4cmkE
  • Tony Long, guest on episode 107, is working on building a kit along with Greg to get more people interested in microwave.
  • Chris now has a Raspberry Pi, but hasn't fired it up yet.
  • The RPi foundation is one of the first that will be open sourcing the ARM/GPU stack.
  • ARM is now licensing and building 64-bit ARM-based server processors, including the A-53 and A-57 cores.
  • Which US Presidential Candidate will be better for engineering?
  • If you're in deep to the statistics of the election, check out the 512 Paths To The Whitehouse.
  • Chris is getting overzealous about CNC Machining, based on a great document found at the /r/hwstartups subreddit. This guerrilla guide to CNC Machining is awesome!
  • The machines Chris is looking at are nothing compared with the 5 axis machines that can rapidly cut crazy stuff:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnIvhlKT7SY
  • Would you pick a CNC over a 3D printer?
  • Paul Graham wrote an article about the Hardware Renaissance.
  • Ben Einstein of Bolt wrote a rubuttal mentioning that the mentorship isn't as strong.
  • And if you're interested in hardware accelerators, HAXLR8R is looking for their next round of candidates!
  • The podcast that Chris mentioned is called Innovation Hub from WGBH. Great show!
    • Thank you to Jameco for sponsoring the show! And to Nottinghack for the CNC picture!
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