#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool

Chris has been troubleshooting a PCB with a dead short on inner layers (put in by board house by mistake)
Don’t Touch My Gerbers shirt
“Is there an AI tool that will fix this for me?” … No
Chris dumped a bunch of current in the board and looked at it with this thermal camera
6.5 digit DMM to track down shorts
Etching problems in the old days
100% etest
Adding rails to PCBs for production
Reddit discussion thread: why not work on a product? That is, Dave, the wise one.
Videos
Live stream issues
Post from Twitter: Is 2 layers all you really need? This person thinks so, or is trying to convince themselves as much.
Armchair quarterbacking
Ian Johnston replacing the display on an 8.5 digit DMM
Jack Ganssle has posted his final newsletter (The Embedded Muse)…happy retirement! Jack has been on the show twice:
- Episode 54 (!)
- Episode 489
Ward Christensen, Inventor of BBS and XModem, (and former listener of the show!) has passed away
Dave is interviewing Lee Felstenstein for our next episode

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