Hardware Podcasts

No One Even Missed Us?

The Amp Hour · 20 Nov 2015 · 1h 17m · Episode 275

What this episode covers

Chris Gammell of Contextual Electronics and Dave Jones of EEV Blog discuss the recent Superconference, highlighting the innovative badge mods and the influence of media like Mythbusters on STEM education. They detail Dave's struggles setting up a live streaming bench, specifically dealing with HDMI capture issues and monitor scaling problems, before analyzing the consolidation in the semiconductor industry, including the On Semiconductor acquisition of Fairchild and the decline of legacy brands like Dialog and Intersil. The conversation concludes with a critique of the Prometheus PCB milling machine Kickstarter for its redundant custom CAD tool and a discussion on the future of embedded programming languages like Go and Rust.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Contextual Electronics, EEV Blog, Hackaday, Mouser, TI, On Semiconductor, Fairchild, Dialog, Intersil
Products
Mythbusters, Togano microscope, Mantis Elite cam microscope, Dell monitor, Prometheus
Chips
ESP32, ESP8266
Tools
Upverter

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