An Interview with Jeff Keyzer - Comical Keyzer Comes a-Callin'

Apr 13, 2011 · 1 hr 6 min · Episode 38 · 32.0 MB

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Jeff Keyzer of Mightyohm.com joins us this week to talk electronics and his new comic book!

Jeff Keyzer and Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren just put out a comic book called "Soldering is easy!". Great resource for those just starting out and a preview of a book to be published later this year.
Jeff will be at the Bay Area Maker Faire next month, teaching classes.
He also will be at the Choas Communication Camp in Germany later this year (the place where the Hackerspace was born).
Chris found out about all this from the Hackerspaces Mailing List.
Dave is unabashedly asking people to vote for him in the Tektronix Scope Contest! Dave's video is about the piezoelectric effect in probes.
Henrik (@hspalm), one of our WOTW alums, writes in about his new project to characterize DIY shipping costs. Could be a good launchpad for a wiki-type site and drive some change at these organizations.
Digikey has a new community that seems destined to flop right out of the gate.
Instead, they should try to be more like AVRfreaks or BeagleBoard, which are more targeted and detached from the company.
Electric Vehicles
- Chris had the opportunity to hear Bob Simpson, of EVdrive.com, talk about his conversion and upcoming business venture.
- New idea is V2G or Vehicle-2-Grid, uses cars as load balancing while they are parked in the garage. Don Tuite has a good rebuttal to the practicality of this in a recent Electronic Design article.
- Why doesn't the Toyota Prius have plug-in capability?
Dave is putting up new lighting in the lab. LED for total lumens needed is still impractical. Dave went with fluorescent to cost and light output.
And finally, in the WTF column, the US Navy is working on a new lighting scheme: a laser weapon! Good gravy!