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• Chris recently announced that he is releasing all of the KiCad videos from the Contextual Electronics course.
  
• There is also a new site over at KiCad.info and there is a forum to talk about KiCad at forum.kicad.info
  
• We also still have an IRC channel! There are also channels for KiCad and Electronics on Freenode.
  
• Dave used to own AltiumForums.com but they got antsy about him owning that.
  
• The “Lithium Ion super cap in a battery” is being updated to say they’re using homemade graphene capacitors.
  
• The current requirements are insane, the dynamic current would be higher than most car chargers.
  
• GE claims to have made a fuel cell breakthrough and are in early production.
  
• Another gimmicky crowdfunding was someone claiming to have replicated Wardenclyff.
  
• Weird Al has a new song about conspiracy theories called “Foil”.
  
  
  
• Dave recently got into OK Go videos, citing the Rube Goldberg as his favorite.
  
  
  
• OK Go was part of the White House maker faire
  
• Dave has camera woes after losing an entire day of footage going through old magazines.
  
• National Instruments recently released a headless unit/multitool. The specs for the scope appear that they are using off the shelf silicon (100 MHz for 2 channels).
  
• Dave mentioned that there is also a wireless head unit for multimeters from Agilent. It is ruggedized for field work.
  
• Fluke also has been pushing their safety equipment.
  
• The hard problem to solve is streaming data back across a wireless connection (especially if you expect it on a particular ).
  
• Dave recently found that low scan rates on the RF section of MDO3000 lock up the keys on the scope.
  
  
  
• A Cleveland accelerator is now looking for hardware startups.
  
• Dave found out there is also a hardware accelerator in Sydney.
  
• Many of our listeners will be tempted by VC/accelerator money as well. Just be sure you know why you’re taking money for a company idea.
  
• Ben Einstein of Bolt (another hardware accelerator) wrote a piece on why so much money is heading into hardware.
  
• Littlebits released their CloudBit module, which connects their platform to the internet. Chris was interested to know that people are using it as prototyping. 
  
• Google is giving $1 million for the “Littlebox challenge”. It’s all about trying to get the maximum power density for a microinverter.
  
• The EDA solver is meant to be a way to search through available components for a PCB and pick the best ones. It will be interesting to see if that kind of thing works for non-example designs.
  

Thanks to Low Voltage Labs for the picture of the pumpkin made in KiCad