The Amp Hour

Standing With Ahmed

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  • Dave just got back from Electronex
  • Chris uses Boomerang to return emails. This is better than letting the amount of emails build up to the point of needing to "declare email bankruptcy"
  • Ahmed, a 14 year old hardware enthusiast from Dallas, was arrested when he brought his clock project to school.
  • Ahmed seems like a pretty collected individual for being a teenager. Here he talks about the experience:
  • Mike from Hackaday wrote about building clocks in conjunction with NYC Resistor.
  • Chris just got back from XOXO which was an emotional and awesome conference.
  • In order to make more connections, Chris made a blinking badge.
  • You can see past years videos on the XOXO youtube page.
  • Chris is helping put together a hardware conference in November with Hackaday.
  • The BB8 is a fantastic little robot, based on the Sphero.
  • Elecia recently did a talk about the guts of the BB8 at the Hardware Developer Didactic Galactic.
  • Chris from Bolt wrote about who is investing in hardware.
  • After hearing him speak at XOXO, Chris had a chance to talk to Bryce from Indie.vc.
  • Dave was surprised that OpenROV is taking investment. They also just launched a new Kickstarter.
  • Argonne recently announced a breakthrough in the Mott transition...OK!
  • You can write assembly language for a MIPS processor in the browser and simulate it!
  • Chris thinks that most designs these days that people will just throw more horsepower at problems.
  • Watch a talk relating semiconductor physics to Angry Birds.
  • Saar from Boldport discusses the backwards nature of the EDA industry.
    • Next week we will have Luke from yCombinator talking about the program and their new focus on hardware!

    Thanks to svofski for the picture of the nixie tube clock.

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