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World Trade Futurity (WTF)

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  • Donald Trump is the president elect of the US. Dave (and Chris and the rest of the world) is asking "WTF?"
  • Tesla500 ponders whether NAFTA being repealed would impact sales of a device from a Canadian to the US.
  • Chris has been hanging out with Tony from adafruit who is working on MicroPython tutorials
  • Dave got a large format poster of the Spectrum printed in his latest mailbag
  • Chris got to hang out with Brent and Bryce from FaradayRF at SuperCon last weekend.
  • More about SuperCon
    • Akiba was there!
    • Alan Yates gave a talk abut the Valve LightHouse. He also talked about this on a recent episode of Embedded.fm.
    • Ken Shirriff from Righto.com
    • Steve Collins from JPL
    • Chris skipped Electronica, which is going on now.
    • Two more acquisitions
      • Qualcomm acquires NXP
      • Lattice Semi was acquired by a private capital firm.
      • Dave wrote old programs for Lattice devices. Chris started out with FPGAs using Altera's Quartus.
      • Muntzing technique
      • EMI app note from TI
      • One way to reduce EMI is to slow down the slew rate. Dave talked about this and more in an older bypassing video.
      • Chris wants some kind of "Evernote for datasheets" that locally syncs datasheets over time. Does anyone know of a service like this?
      • The satellite that came back online (back in 2013).
      • Dave stayed up late for the European Mars landing but hoped for more pomp in the presentation. You can watch some of the archived videos here.
      • Chris recalls XKCD's depressing comic about Spirit on Mars (695).
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