The Spark Gap - Episode 51

Karl and Corey talk about projects they've been working on in their spare time.  Corey discusses his ping pong scoreboard's progress and challenges.

Karl and Corey discuss how to work with development kits, specifically on how to best transition from a dev kit to a custom design.

Karl and Corey talk about various ways to protect a design from other devices that can pull too much power, reverse voltage polarity, and otherwise cause damage.

Karl and Corey discuss various means of user input: buttons, rotary encoders, and resistive and capacitive touch sensing.

Karl and Corey talk about their trip to Portland, Oregon and the 2016 Open Hardware Summit.

Karl and Corey are back to talk about design choices you can make when creating schematics and PCB layouts that will make board bring up and debugging much easier.

Karl and Corey discuss the issues with heat in an embedded design, how to prevent it, how to detect it, and how to deal with it.

Karl and Corey discuss the CANbus protocol and the new CAN-FD specification.

Karl and Corey talk about some of the lessons Karl learned (and remembered) at the Signal Integrity Boot Camp at DesignCon.

Karl and Corey air some grievances about Raspberry Pi, "Hoverboards", and PCB layout practices in this grab bag/Festivus episode.