Be Tidy

Oct 2, 2015 · 1 hr 6 min · Episode 269 · 63.8 MB

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Dave is having more microphone troubles.
Dave had to record earlier so he could go catch the first showing of The Martian
Back to the Future is only licensed with one theater in Australia??
Dave got a Fluke 8060, reminding him of our interview with Dave Taylor.
OSHWA came up with a new license, which caused a stir
- EMSL wrote a response.
- As did Boldport.
Can online education work for EEs? AMU is trying (with $12K of 'home equipment' required)
Dave has been looking at a new space but decided against it. His wife told him to "Be tidy" upon leaving.
Dialog is buying Atmel.
Johngineer mentioned on twitter how chip companies seem to halve every 18 months. https://twitter.com/johngineer/status/645775176848797696
Microchip has a much larger number of SKUs than Atmel, simply based upon the PIC16 family. Also, they used to be called "Arizona Microchip".
The Volkswagon emissions scandalv is interesting because of how few engineers impacted so much. There was also a single engineer that discovered the mishap.
The documentary (about electronics in Australia) we have been mentioning for a long time (by Karl) has finally started being released in parts.
Seeed launched a new kickstarter for the RePhone.
Quirky is bankrupt. Bolt wrote about why they failed.
Chris is helping set up a conference for hardware along with Hackaday. If you'd like to apply to speak, use this link: http://bit.do/had_conf