EP#78: No Guru Here

No Guru Here

• Parker
  • Gave a presentation at the MacroFab Engineering meetup about how to turn on your Electronics Project.
    • Removal of power source
    • Physical Power Switch
    • Soft Power Switch
    • Details about MCU sleep modes
    • Will be an article soon.
• Stephen
  • Science Museum project part 2 - Logger project will be *done* tonight and delivered tomorrow.
  • Sure Step stepper motor driver STP-DRV-80100. RJ11 port for programming the driver. The RS-232 to USB converter Stephen bought from Fry's was counterfeit.
  • The matched transistor IC ladder filter chips FINALLY arrived. Shipped from Germany.
• Pick Of the Week (POW)
  • ElectroCard
    • Designed by Michael Teeuw
    • OLED business card
    • Used a ATTiny84 but used a SOIC-8 footprint instead of a SOIC-8 Wide
• Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
  • Roomba’s Next Big Thing - Selling your house layout to the highest bidder - Gizmodo
    • Data mining your house.
    • Cute robot is now a sinister spy machine
    • Furniture positioning/Home automation
  • The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market - Hack A Day
    • Whats an Arduino 101?
    • Supposedly had bad documentation.
    • Did Intel have any availability guarantee?
  • Intel is now number 2 - electronics weekly
    • In silicon chip manufacturing
    • After 24 years as the No.1 chip company, Intel slipped below Samsung in Q2 with revenues of $14.8 billion.
    • Inflated memory prices push Samsung
    • Ti currently holds the longest hold as No 1 semiconductor manufacture (1959-1984)