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Secret Squirrel

Oct 2, 2017 · 1 hr 11 min · Episode 362 · 68.6 MB

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Chris was at Maker Faire last weekend and will be at the Open Hardware Summit this week.
Jim Williams app note 28 about thermocouples
Dave is still investigating the LT3780 among other chips.
The PC/104 standard was before Arduino or other modern dev boards. Dave has been playing around with one he found in his collection. This uses the ISA bus standard.
The early ones Dave developed on had a 386.
These ran DOS programs. Dave often ran Novell DOS.
The best ones had "disk on chip" from m-systems
Chris was impressed with the shrunk down System on Module (OSD355x) that's on the Beagle Pocket.
We've had Jason Kridner on the show before but will hopefully chat with him again soon.
Gene Kranz was a NASA flight director. Gene Frantz did the Speak and Spell and helped found Octavo systems
Two fish were in a tank
Bart Dring (formerly of Inventables) built some crazy robots for a local Chicago meetup.
Andrew Witte (CTO of Pebble) was formerly on the show
Working on Pebble taught Eric Micgovsky about hardware.
Gerry from Civionics
Former guest Zach Dunham (who works at Kickstarter) has a new podcast called The Prepared.
AvE did a video about the BioLite charger/stove and using conformal coating on it.

Image courtesy of Rick and Morty, s03e08