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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#404 – Proof Of Blink
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:07:03
	Publish Date:		2018-08-26 23:15:18
	Description:		Chris has decided to once again hang his shingle and do design consulting via his company, Analog Life, LLC 0:00 This is after a year at Hologram, who have changed directions on hardware, leading Chris to look for design opportunities elsewhere. 0:01 Art installation 0:02 Dave doesn’t like consulting 0:12 Startups offering equity 0:17 “Proof of blink” 0:17 Things to do when you’re stressed: Write about how you’re feeling Talk to (your significant other) Learn something new Publish something Go for a walk Meditate Go through your contacts, reach out to people you haven’t talked to in a while Read a book Ponder the nature of the universe and how massive it is and how not much really matters after all Think of ways to make a difference Mentor younger engineers Ask for advice from more experienced folks Answer forum posts Listen to music Play some music Post a funny tweet about electronics Post a business idea to Twitter Do a live stream Create a silly piece of PCB art Ask Twitter what they want to learn right now Plan a training course Listen to an off topic podcast or audiobook (fiction) Do some pushups! Drink a biiiiiig glass of water 0:24 Rightsizing 0:26 Magic smoke escape tag 0:27 110 GHz scope from Keysight 0:28 Shahriar visited the LeCroy factory to look at a previously “fastest scope” front runner (100 GHz) 0:30 Forum post about the inside of the scope 0:31 Dave is doing another meetup Weds Sept 5th 0:35 IMTS is coming up in Chicago. Chris will be doing a meetup with the folks from Bolt and there is a meetup at mHUB with former guest John Saunders. 0:36 Dave did a Live Stream trying out KiCad again 0:38 Dave is looking at a learning system using KiCad 0:44 Olimex does high end SBC boards using KiCad 0:45 Eagle moving upmarket 0:46 Altium Nexus 0:47 Traps in chips (EEVBlog #1115) showcases why it’s important to read the datasheets 0:51 Bunnie’s talk at ToorCamp 0:56 Finding bugs in datasheets 0:58 Goodfear badge 1:01 Leaded Zeppelin (see below) 1:02 Chris just put in a talk for Supercon. You should too! 1:05 Thanks to Tomás J. Sepúlveda for the picture of the blink man
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