This week Dave and Chris discuss test equipment, the Arduino acquisition, Zephyr, Altium pricing, private equity owning YouTube channels, audio circuits, and more!
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- Capacitors go pop on Dave’s audio setup, the Presonus monitors
- Ground loops causing HDMI cable sparking
- Chris was watching Jetman videos and got an ‘Is that real?’ from the kid. We find ourselves asking the same with all the AI generated video these days.
- Fight between mehdi/electroboom and walter lewin about KVL
- Arduino bought by Qualcomm! They also released the Arduino Uno Q, a single board computer running Debian that also has a beefy microcontroller running Zephyr
- Daves post on X about the purchase
- Arduino switched to Zephyr
- A new enabler of this complex mix of embedded, linux, AI, and ML is a software offering from Arduino called App lab
- Spacey
- Hardware meetup – ACES
- Veritasium is PE owned now
- Chris will be going to a Tektronix event for new gear and past guest Alan Wolke (W2AEW) is giving a class
- Chris has been rebooting his website to follow the ideas of the Small Web
- Follow #electronicscreators on YouTube to not be subject to algorithmic steering
- Chris has been getting into gridfinity after discussing it a few shows ago.
- Altium changed their pricing again…but it might be lower? Hard to tell
- Check out the features coming to KiCad in v10
- YOLO = “You Only Look Once”, Chris learned about it from OpenMV