Keyzermas Vacation

Hip hip hooray for Keyzermas Vacation!

• Jeff has been attending a lot of events in 2019
  • CES
  • DesignCon
  • IEEE EMC in New Orleans
  • Chaos Camp
  • Teardown
  • Superconference
• Jeff is no longer at Valve, since February of 2019.
• He's been spending his time learning Solidworks and updating his Altium knowledge/license.
• Why Solidworks vs Fusion?
• The new normal of using different tools within companies, especially with groups inside of companies acting like startups
• David is moving on to greener pastures, so Dave will be doing software for the uSupply. This was the genesis behind the install video of tools.
• Sci.py is over 1 GB
• Chris was asking on twitter what people are looking to learn. What about you?
• "Jeff's Makin Widgets"
• Everyone should have a 3D printer
• Wants to work on flex and rigid flex
• Losing skills once leaving the big companies
• What is this thing subreddit
• SMA and 3.5 mm connectors
• EMC far field vs near field
• Up close is a magnetic field (H field)
• It doesn't become EMC until a certain distance from the board
• Based on the wavelength of the frequency
• CISPA
• "The antenna is just a piece of bent metal"
• Antenna we discussed
• EMC crash cart in Henry Ott's book
• At the symposium Jeff was at a session on low cost tools
• EMC society in Seattle
• Dave has been inside Australia's largest chamber_
• Using firmware to reduce EMC issues
• Minimum pieces of flair
• If you design it not to emit, you are not going to be susceptible
• Keeping loops tight
• Qi charging
• Jeff working on cars
• Metal casting
• Bob Simpson on The Amp Hour talking about converting his BMW
• Sinclair C5
• Tom Lee
• 2019 was the year of long lead time for components
• How long will through hole components stick around?
• Find Jeff on various parts of the internet:
  • Twitter
  • Mightyohm.com
  • Instagram
  • See all of Jeff's appearances on The Amp Hour on our special category for him on the website!