• Chris was at Maker Faire last weekend and will be at the Open Hardware Summit this week.
• Jim Williams app note 28 about thermocouples
• Dave is still investigating the LT3780 among other chips.
• The PC/104 standard was before Arduino or other modern dev boards. Dave has been playing around with one he found in his collection. This uses the ISA bus standard.
• The early ones Dave developed on had a 386.
• These ran DOS programs. Dave often ran Novell DOS.
• The best ones had “disk on chip” from m-systems
• Chris was impressed with the shrunk down System on Module (OSD355x) that’s on the Beagle Pocket.
• We’ve had Jason Kridner on the show before but will hopefully chat with him again soon.
• Gene Kranz was a NASA flight director. Gene Frantz did the Speak and Spell and helped found Octavo systems
• Two fish were in a tank
• Bart Dring (formerly of Inventables) built some crazy robots for a local Chicago meetup.
• Andrew Witte (CTO of Pebble) was formerly on the show
• Working on Pebble taught Eric Micgovsky about hardware.
• Gerry from Civionics
• Former guest Zach Dunham (who works at Kickstarter) has a new podcast called The Prepared.
• AvE did a video about the BioLite charger/stove and using conformal coating on it.

Image courtesy of Rick and Morty, s03e08