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The Amp Hour · 13 Apr 2020 · 1h 13m · Episode 488

What this episode covers

Dave Jones and Chris Gammell discuss the challenges of home electronics storage, highlighting the difficulty of finding specific components like high-current surface-mount inductors and the trade-offs between component size and current rating. They analyze the 'myth of three capacitor values' for bypassing, explaining why simple rules of thumb often fail in high-speed designs due to parasitic inductance and resonance, despite being necessary for practical engineering. The hosts also announce the launch of a patron Discord server and global virtual hardware meetups to maintain community connection during lockdown, while reviewing free simulation tools like Micro-Cap and essential industry application notes from Texas Instruments and Microchip.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Formlabs, Medtronic, Texas Instruments, Microchip, Tektronix
Tools
KiCad, Micro-Cap, LTspice, Falstad Circuit Simulator
Also
PartsBox

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