The Spark Gap
Karl and Corey talk about projects they've been working on in their spare time. Corey discusses his ping pong scoreboard's progress and challenges.
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Karl and Corey discuss how to work with development kits, specifically on how to best transition from a dev kit to a custom design.
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Karl and Corey talk about various ways to protect a design from other devices that can pull too much power, reverse voltage polarity, and otherwise cause damage.
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Karl and Corey discuss various means of user input: buttons, rotary encoders, and resistive and capacitive touch sensing.
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Karl and Corey talk about their trip to Portland, Oregon and the 2016 Open Hardware Summit.
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Karl and Corey are back to talk about design choices you can make when creating schematics and PCB layouts that will make board bring up and debugging much easier.
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Karl and Corey discuss the issues with heat in an embedded design, how to prevent it, how to detect it, and how to deal with it.
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Karl and Corey discuss the CANbus protocol and the new CAN-FD specification.
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Karl and Corey talk about some of the lessons Karl learned (and remembered) at the Signal Integrity Boot Camp at DesignCon.
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Karl and Corey air some grievances about Raspberry Pi, "Hoverboards", and PCB layout practices in this grab bag/Festivus episode.
info_outlineKarl and Corey explore the analog world a bit by discussing Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog Converters.