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Melbourne, Hackerspace & Calibration - Vacuuous Vortex Verification

The Amp Hour · 12 Feb 2013 · 1h 13m · Episode 132

What this episode covers

Dave Jones, host of the EEV blog, recounts his trip to Melbourne, where he visited Agilent's mobile calibration lab (the 'Voskow') and the Australian Synchrotron. Chris Gammell discusses the new Raspberry Pi camera module and the challenges of PCB bring-up, while both hosts critique the lack of practical context in traditional engineering education.

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makers and hobbyists

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Companies
Agilent, Freetronics, FlipTronics
Products
Raspberry Pi
Also
Australian Synchrotron, Pioneer 10, Matt Richardson, Kent Lundberg, Olin, MIT, Coursera, Columbia University, Case, Bob Pease, Larry Sears, Philip Frieden, Jonathan Oxer, Alex, Andy, OpenCV

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