17 years.
It’s less cooked than yours by the sounds of it.

https://cybercitycircuits.com/2025/12/31/retro-electro-the-untold-stories-of-electronics-history/

Stephen Colbert’s guest, John Dickerson has what looks like Eric’s Index 01 Ring on his right index finger.

Haha, I love it. If it was a video doorbell, could even have an “Eye of M’door”

…did we just create a BILLION dollar product??

Service model was such an odd breath of fresh air in the space, I really loved it. Also, I’ve never heard such a good narration from an author before, Adrian is frustratingly talented 😀

Will definitely check out Doors to Eden, thanks for the rec!

Vibe Coding seems like a good idea, but in the cheesy ’50s scifi film _The Invisible Boy_ the computer had slowly suggested minor code changes over a twenty-year period until it was ready to take over the world. IIRC It started by promising to save 2ms on each vector calculation, but the humans didn’t care until it promised to raise the stock price 15% per year.

But for a *good* movie about a computer taking over, watch _Colossus: The Forbin Project_ (1970)

Yes, I tried that out this time. Relistening, I can see how it changed things. Will try to get an unmodified episode up later today. Thanks for the feedback.

– https://tonies-wiki.revvox.de/
– https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11993-toniebox_reverse_engineering (talk in german)

(The Dollop is two comedians… uhm, explaining all about different people and events from American & Australian history.)

I dunno man, I think you’d be an unstoppable force if you got one, how would any of the rest of us compete?? 😀

(This is past guest Orkhan, for anyone paying attention to handles)

I’d be interested in hearing you elaborate on “Dave is far more on it […] The fact he isn’t dragged down by the BS surface politics / semantics / conformity-driven groupthink”.

What do you think about X and how they claim to be for freedom of speech, yet silence people who think otherwise about the H-1B visa issue?

Thanks. Enjoy your day.

Yeah, you could be right that I’ve had a condescending tone and that Dave and I’s long history together has some snark that pops out after 14 years, but if you’re only hearing my tone, you ain’t listening with open ears. I’d wager you’re just used to hearing his tone more.

> The fact he isn’t dragged down by the BS surface politics / semantics / conformity-driven groupthink actually makes his perspective pretty valuable

Dave has lots of valuable perspectives, but his devotion to Elon and the X brand is not one I will ever agree with.

That being said, I admire you both for the energy and effort you bring to the community and hope the podcast (and importantly your relationship as co hosts) lives on for a long time!

If you want to get into woodworking for not very much $$$, there are a ton of projects you can make with a pocket hole jig, a clamp on saw guide, and a bench sander. Oh and a circular saw, but you already have one, right? Buy an aftermarket blade for it. Dust collection is a thing, but if you move outside to do your cuts and sanding, then nature will take care of it!

Thanks and best regards,
ingo.

Was too eager! Realised it’s easy to get from amazon au!

Thanks for the clarification!
I’m sorry that I made your wave function collapse (both of the episode exist until you specifically look for them :D).

Wow, I think it doesn’t actually exist and I’m just mapping the embedded.fm episodes onto TAH! Jeeeeez, my brain isn’t firing on all cylinders! These are Jay’s appearances on the embedded:

https://embedded.fm/episodes/226
https://embedded.fm/episodes/303

You have referred now in multiple shows the second interview with Jay Carson, where he talked about his embedded linux SBC journey during COVID. I’d like to ask, what episode is the first interview with Jay? I presume in this show he talks about his 1$ MCU project, but I cannot find this show in the episode index.

Thanks and regards,
Mate

Why yes there was a lot of purchases of small crocodile clips, and 2k2 resistors, from the local electronics store, though it would often work simply by using wet toilet paper across the 2 bare sections of phone line conveniently by the phone itself. Note these phones were right outside the security offices, with 24 hour visibility to the guard commander as well.

I may or may not have made my own butt set, using an old carbon mic phone, as there is a lot less to contain in there if you do not need to have a ringer, and knew where the base incoming lines were. Lots of 212 area code New York lines that you could call for free, as those lines could dial internationally. Way too many special intel people in the camp that us normal trainees interacted with, and they in some cases had no visible rank, but outranked the base command for some reason.

Sure! If it hasn’t been discussed already, I can create a post. First, I’ll have to create a reddit account!

Btw, Chris, I got to check out some of your live designs on Golioth. I had to be a little sneaky because it’s during work hours, but totally worth it. Great content!

Love your podcast, always something interesting. However, I must take a minute to correct some of the incorrect assumptions that I heard on this one. For context as a young man, I produced PCBs for several years in the 70’s and 80’s. So, when I heard that they rolled solder on the boards and that’s why it was all wrinkly under the solder mask. I thought I should explain how it’s done. The solder was electroplated on as tin/lead (From a tank that contained Solder anodes. But it was plated as elemental tin and lead in the proper ratio). This was then used as an etchant resist and protected the copper from the etchant. After etching the boards are fluxed between flux soared rollers on the way into a reflow oven where the tin and lead are melted into the solder alloy. Goes in dull and gray and comes out bright and shiny. I skipped past the resist application and copper plating before the tin/lead plating and the resist removal prior to etching, but, my point wasn’t to explain the entire process, but if you would like me to follow up, I can bring it from the beginning to the end. I have done every process.

Now as far as electrical test we did it very differently back in the day. None of this flying probe nonsense. Which by the way I believe is a netlist generated process. We used to use “Bed of Nails” test machines that had a .1″ x .1″ grid of spring-loaded test pins. A translating fixture would map these pins to another set of pins that lined up to all of the component holes. (None of this Surface mount rubbish.) Then a thoroughly inspected board would be used to program the the matrix with everything that should show as a short. The tester would then compare every point to every other point and if something was shorted that shouldn’t have been or something that should have been shorted wasn’t the machine would stop testing and display the coordinates in question with an error code (Short or Open).

Anyway, there’s my $0.02,
Glenn

Interestingly, there’s no direct handling of ASCII characters on the STM32 code!
So, it reads a serial data stream intended for a VFD controller, intercepts it, and processes the data to display on an SSD1322 OLED. It takes each packet of incoming data, unpacks the character bitmaps and annunciator flags, and stores them in a frame buffer. The code then scales and converts these bitmaps for the SSD1322 OLED’s pixel format, handling both the main and auxiliary display lines. Finally, it sends the formatted frame buffer data to the OLED, updating the display in real-time based on the intercepted VFD data.

The consultant forum is a quasi private section for consultants on the Contextual Electronics forum. Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYmuF7i3FyxY1j5sR72OSXqLI3j4UUAzIMsIL6Vn49HTXDYQ/viewform

Even the article in the link makes this distinction:

“And don’t get us wrong: we love comments that help improve a project. There’s a not-so-fine line between “why didn’t you design it with trusses to better hold the load?” and “why did you paint it black, because blue is the superior color”. You know what we mean. Constructive criticism, good. Pointless criticism, bad.”

(which, coincidentally, is the exact same example that Chris and Dave gave for pointless nitpicking).