• Dave had some strife switching his workstation over to Win10. Chris had some strife with…talking this week.
• The 121GW Kickstarter is live! (wasn’t during recording). It uses the Hycon HY3130 multimeter chipset.
• Psychology of crowdfunding campaignsHackaday is putting out a new journal
• Autodesk just laid off 13% of their workforce
• Digikey releases an atomic footprint library for KiCad!
• The dangers (and historical context) of “bottom view” of footprints
• KiCad 5.0
• There’s a room at FOSDEM 2018 for Open CAD projects
• Colin Furze AMA
• List of Electronics youtubers over on the EEVblog forum
• Coin cell challenge
• Amazon announced their version of FreeRTOS at the Re:Invent conference
• Jack Ganssle (Embedded.com? EEtimes? Can’t find a link with Jack talking about it) has done RTOS surveys and a large percentage “roll their own”
• Tesla unveiled a large truck. How the hell will they charge that thing?
• Silicon is “Unforgiving,” Says Apple’s Chip Chief Johny Srouji (duh)
• An internet of things flop means some connected lights won’t work anymore
• Solid state battery technology from uTexas, with R&D lead John Goodenough (great name!) Thunderf00t did a video about the “perfect battery”
• An interview with a toy designer.

Thanks to the manchester library for the picture of magazines