August 09, 2011

Shonky Stiver Stultiloquence

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Just when you thought the names of episodes couldn’t get any weirder…

US economy seems to be diving again, hopefully it will not seriously impact the electronics industry.

If it does, Chris thinks startups will be even more reliant on Angel Investors like Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail)

Is DIY finally going mainstream, as Wired suggested recently? An article from Futurismic seems to think this is a bad thing and that money coming in will ultimately hurt the "Maker Movement".

One bad thing could be that people could license their projects as Open Source Hardware (like the Penguino) ... but then not be open!

One thing that comes with more visibility...money. And the US government is funding small startups, some of which might be OSHW. Modeled after a program at Stanford.

University of Michigan is also starting a program for burgeoning startups, granting new Masters of Entrepreneurship Degrees.

Have you ever seen an electronics-inspired license plate out on the road before?

Embedded Eric sent in the entry he submitted to the Touchstone Semi design contest that is wrapping up. A 4.4 uW 555 clone that can run at 18 Hz. Awesome!

Shoutouts:

Our pal and regular guest, Jeff Keyzer of MightyOhm, has a new OSHW Geiger Counter Kit. He'll be showing one off while he's at the Chaos Communication Camp in Berlin.

Chris's good friend Dave Young just finished running a program teaching high school kids electronics over 6 weeks. The kids have written up their impressions of the program and they are/will be posted to the Blue Stamp Engineering blog portion of the site.

Shonky Product of the Week:

First pointed out on the EEVblog forums, "Fuel Savers" for cars seem like an utter load of bunk.

Forum member oPossum did a great review of a 'popular' one and found a few passives and a linear regulator.

This Day in Nerd History:

Neville Mott passed away in 1996. He was a theoretical physicist who helped discover some key points in metal/oxide transitions in semiconductors. He won the 1977 prize in physics and the "Mott Transition" is named after him.

Video of Dr. Mott from 1985, along with many other Nobel Prize winners, is available from the BBC.

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, writes about the need for boredom to inspire creativity. Too many devices preclude boredom these days.

A writer at Gizmodo maintains that creativity is still possible and cites the design of the iPhone as an innovative product. What is the iPhone designer like though?

...more

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August 09, 2011

Shonky Stiver Stultiloquence

Listen Later

1 hour 5 minutes

[display_podcast]

Just when you thought the names of episodes couldn’t get any weirder…

US economy seems to be diving again, hopefully it will not seriously impact the electronics industry.

If it does, Chris thinks startups will be even more reliant on Angel Investors like Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail)

Is DIY finally going mainstream, as Wired suggested recently? An article from Futurismic seems to think this is a bad thing and that money coming in will ultimately hurt the "Maker Movement".

One bad thing could be that people could license their projects as Open Source Hardware (like the Penguino) ... but then not be open!

One thing that comes with more visibility...money. And the US government is funding small startups, some of which might be OSHW. Modeled after a program at Stanford.

University of Michigan is also starting a program for burgeoning startups, granting new Masters of Entrepreneurship Degrees.

Have you ever seen an electronics-inspired license plate out on the road before?

Embedded Eric sent in the entry he submitted to the Touchstone Semi design contest that is wrapping up. A 4.4 uW 555 clone that can run at 18 Hz. Awesome!

Shoutouts:

Our pal and regular guest, Jeff Keyzer of MightyOhm, has a new OSHW Geiger Counter Kit. He'll be showing one off while he's at the Chaos Communication Camp in Berlin.

Chris's good friend Dave Young just finished running a program teaching high school kids electronics over 6 weeks. The kids have written up their impressions of the program and they are/will be posted to the Blue Stamp Engineering blog portion of the site.

Shonky Product of the Week:

First pointed out on the EEVblog forums, "Fuel Savers" for cars seem like an utter load of bunk.

Forum member oPossum did a great review of a 'popular' one and found a few passives and a linear regulator.

This Day in Nerd History:

Neville Mott passed away in 1996. He was a theoretical physicist who helped discover some key points in metal/oxide transitions in semiconductors. He won the 1977 prize in physics and the "Mott Transition" is named after him.

Video of Dr. Mott from 1985, along with many other Nobel Prize winners, is available from the BBC.

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, writes about the need for boredom to inspire creativity. Too many devices preclude boredom these days.

A writer at Gizmodo maintains that creativity is still possible and cites the design of the iPhone as an innovative product. What is the iPhone designer like though?

...more

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