MEP EP#67: Don’t get Analyticized

Podcast Notes

• Parker
  • Space Echo Facebook live Calibration. Tuesday at 4PM CST.
  • Particle Photon IoT work.
  • There needs to be an IoT for Hardware Engineers. If anyone has suggestions, send us a tip!
• Stephen
  • Pat Hensley who is the Mainstream Sales Manager over at Tektronics/Keithley and a listener of the podcast has let us borrow a Keithley DMM7510 multimeter.
  • DMM7510 multimeter Specs:
    • Voltage Sensitivity: 7.5 digit sampling (10nV min)
    • Current Sensitivity: 1pA
    • Resistance sensitivity: 0.1u OHM
    • 14 ppm 1-year DC volt accuracy
    • 60 ppm 1-year DC current acccuracy
    • 24 ppm 1-year resistance accuracy
    • Calibration of the Electronic Development Corporation (now Krohn-Hite)
  • 501J DC voltage standard:
    • Repair: Bought the unit dead and found two bad power supply regulators
    • Raytheon RC4194TK
    • ST Micro L7806C-T
• Rapid Fire Opinion (RFO)
  • Reverse Engineering Space Invaders Sound Chip – HackADay
    • Ken Shirriff
    • 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip
  • SiFive raises $8.5 million for licensable custom microprocessors – venturebeat
    • RISC-V, a free and open instruction set architecture for modern microprocessors.
    • They monetize it through customization and support, much like Linux companies do with their open source operating systems.
    • HiFive1 development board sells for $59. Arduino format.
  • Crashed Advertising sign reveals facial recognition command line logs – Twitter
    • Anonymous Video Analytics (AVA) by Karios.
    • In-Store Analytics, Live Heat Map of your store, VIP treatment for customers Intelligent Digital Signag.
    • Analyze metrics like gender, age or mood to target ads relevant to specific demographics. Change displays in real time to fit different customers’ needs.