Something's Serially Wrong Here

Feb 5, 2016 · 1 hr 12 min · Episode 285 · 70.0 MB

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Dave was asked to be an expert witness...no way! Past guest Jack Ganssle has done this many times, as has Michael Barr.
Dave's rebranded multimeter is up for sale soon and he has been struggling with WooCommerce.
Both Chris and Dave have put out unintended public links/posts.
Security in general on IoT is terrible, you can now search webcams that are just open on the internet.
Up until the late 70s, the Nuclear launch codes in the US were 000000.
Bunnie is crowdfunding a new book about electronics in Shenzhen. Both bunnie and Akiba have been on the show in the past talking about this topic (as have others!)
Chinese new year is coming up! Beware! Shouldn't we just make it an (electrical) engineering holiday?
Chris has been working with Class D Amplifiers as part of Contextual Electronics. It's a new field for him.
FTDI is back at it, bricking chips with their interface software in new and innovative ways.
Dave makes the comparison in PR to the Fine Brothers, who recently had a drastic turnaround in their asshattery.
If you need an alternativeUSB to serial, try the MCP2200.
Jonathan is launching the beta for PCB.ng, a new assembly service that is priced by the area of the circuit board.
The Hackaday square inch contest would do well pricing their assembled boards in this way. Dave had a project called the uRGB.
Dave is hoping to start assembling his pick and place machine kit (on a cart?)
The Aeroscope is a new wireless with impressive specs. We'll need to wait on the cost and the actual performance.
Bluetooth Smart can talk to both BLE and BT classic.
The dean of MIT graduate education is leaving to start a new school with no degrees, majors.
Udacity has been announcing a lot of interesting things like Nanodegrees and paying students back for finishing in 12 months.