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  • Chris was at Maker Faire last weekend and will be at the Open Hardware Summit this week.
  • Jim Williams app note 28 about thermocouples
  • Dave is still investigating the LT3780 among other chips.
  • The PC/104 standard was before Arduino or other modern dev boards. Dave has been playing around with one he found in his collection. This uses the ISA bus standard.
  • The early ones Dave developed on had a 386.
  • These ran DOS programs. Dave often ran Novell DOS.
  • The best ones had "disk on chip" from m-systems
  • Chris was impressed with the shrunk down System on Module (OSD355x) that's on the Beagle Pocket.
  • We've had Jason Kridner on the show before but will hopefully chat with him again soon.
  • Gene Kranz was a NASA flight director. Gene Frantz did the Speak and Spell and helped found Octavo systems
  • Two fish were in a tank
  • Bart Dring (formerly of Inventables) built some crazy robots for a local Chicago meetup.
  • Andrew Witte (CTO of Pebble) was formerly on the show
  • Working on Pebble taught Eric Micgovsky about hardware.
  • Gerry from Civionics
  • Former guest Zach Dunham (who works at Kickstarter) has a new podcast called The Prepared.
  • AvE did a video about the BioLite charger/stove and using conformal coating on it.
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