EP#78: 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)

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