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  • Dave has been dealing with an over-zealous, "over-unity" power...person.
  • Ring was bought by Amazon. It was on Sharktank as DoorBot.
  • Our Survey is still open and we have had some great responses. You can win a 1000X if you take the survey. Results will be posted later.
  • Dave's wondering how people prefer to control power supplies.
  • Maplin is finally shutting down. They have taken the slow nose dive behind Radio Shack and Tandy.
  • Toggle the bot
  • Chris has a soft goal of "no longer saying he's bad at software". He's been using the educational JLink debugger from SEGGER.
  • State of Electronics keeps posting nice videos lately
    • Visiting the LIFX bulb factory
    • Machine plastic
    • Microchip is looking to buy Microsemi. (after the show was recorded this was confirmed).The latter makes FPGAs and was always jockeying for the number 3 or 4 position with Lattice (who make the parts described by Claire (nee Clifford) Wolf when she was on the show)
    • Amazon also bought a company making chips that are used in low power video monitoring equipment.
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    • You can now get an "on demand" Amp Hour T-shirt (instead of bulk buying through teespring) and a Widlar poster if you'd like.
    • Update: Dave's testing with Toggle may have been all for naught!
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