The Amp Hour

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  • Dave was asked to be an expert witness...no way! Past guest Jack Ganssle has done this many times, as has Michael Barr.
  • Dave's rebranded multimeter is up for sale soon and he has been struggling with WooCommerce.
  • Both Chris and Dave have put out unintended public links/posts.
  • Security in general on IoT is terrible, you can now search webcams that are just open on the internet.
  • Up until the late 70s, the Nuclear launch codes in the US were 000000.
  • Bunnie is crowdfunding a new book about electronics in Shenzhen. Both bunnie and Akiba have been on the show in the past talking about this topic (as have others!)
  • Chinese new year is coming up! Beware! Shouldn't we just make it an (electrical) engineering holiday?
  • Chris has been working with Class D Amplifiers as part of Contextual Electronics. It's a new field for him. 
  • FTDI is back at it, bricking chips with their interface software in new and innovative ways.
  • Dave makes the comparison in PR to the Fine Brothers, who recently had a drastic turnaround in their asshattery. 
  • If you need an alternativeUSB to serial, try the MCP2200.
  • Jonathan is launching the beta for PCB.ng, a new assembly service that is priced by the area of the circuit board.
  • The Hackaday square inch contest would do well pricing their assembled boards in this way.  Dave had a project called the uRGB.
  • Dave is hoping to start assembling his pick and place machine kit (on a cart?)
  • The Aeroscope is a new wireless with impressive specs. We'll need to wait on the cost and the actual performance.
  • Bluetooth Smart can talk to both BLE and BT classic.
  • The dean of MIT graduate education is leaving to start a new school with no degrees, majors.
  • Udacity has been announcing a lot of interesting things like Nanodegrees and paying students back for finishing in 12 months.
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