Show Notes
Karl and Corey discuss the practice of Manufacturers charging money to unlock built-in features of Test Equipment.
They give their opinion on whether unlocking those features by means of “hacking” your equipment is actually stealing.
Alternatives to paying exhorbant sums of cash to unlock existing features are considered.
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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.