The Custodial Arts

Aug 21, 2022 · 1 hr 7 min · Episode 600 · 68.6 MB

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Chris and Dave reflect on the joys of having children, despite illness
Dave's latest Scope winner is a young person developing PCBs for the Framework laptop
Dave recently posted a debugging video with Sagan
What's your "daily driver" scope?
- Chris - Analog Discovery 2 (portable, very low needs)
- Dave - National Instrument virtual bench (flexible), but has many many more options.
Chris's boards were featured on the adafruit blog for using the Feather standard. These were the demos he worked on for Golioth.
Jared Wolff makes one of the nRF9160 feather boards, he has been on the show.
Chris likes that the Actinius Icarus has a higher voltage input pin to power from the thing you're plugging into (instead of only from the USB cable)
Adafruit Feather specification
Nordic Semiconductor recently announced their new Wi-Fi product, the nRF7002
The nRF9160 has a GPS modem, but it's time sliced with cellular.
Low tech is more Dave's speed
Dave prefers working with a decade counter like the CD4026 for clock projects
Dave showcased his clock build from his teenage years
Carl the Janitor
Submitted by community member unmanaged615, the TPIC6595 is a shift register that can deliver 250 mA per pin.
Not recognized at first, but Dave designed a variant into his Nixie tube design series
Matt Keeter from Oxide Computer Company (same place that past guest Laura Abbott works) showed how they debugged UDP packets direct from an QSGMII pair.
Will an 8 bit computer run Doom?
Logic probe
Logic pulser