Autorouter, Datasheets & Obscure Chips - Cloddish Collegiate Conversations

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• Daniel Garrido linked here from his project site. Some great projects over there! (sorry if I butchered your name!)
• Open Hardware Summit is on again this year and are looking for entries for presentations.
• Bre Pettis of Makerbot will be on The Colbert Report. Fun interviews, Chris liked the Dean Kamen interview.
• Dave re-worked the EEVforum because he was not allowed to start a forum with 'Altium' in the name.
• Are Autorouters getting any better? Dave has seen the post from 'Silicon Farmer' before, comparing autorouters vs manual.
• Windell from ESML told Chris about Toporouter. It looks 'wiggly', but apparently works well.
• Australia and the US seems to have quite a few differences culturally when it comes to higher education. What is college/Uni like in your part of the world?
• Peter Thiel is offering $100K to 20 students if they drop out of school and start a business.
• Another way students to get $100K: Win the DARPA DIY Drones competition.
• Chris and Dave correct their silliness about a camshaft vs. a driveshaft.
• And even though we don't know much about cars, Top Gear and Car Talk are some of our favorite shows!
• Dave has an offer to ride in an iMiev next week. Cool!
• Chris talked to another Aussie last week and he mentioned a board in 2x3". The metrification of Australia took more than 10 years to complete!
• Dave spent several days looking through 22 different manufacturers web sites and almost 400 devices for a suitable Lithium Ion charger chip!
• Would be much easier for reading datasheets with something like this. S0 cool!
• COTW: The AD633 is an analog multiplier and has a great application section of the datasheet. How did Chris not know about these??