EP#120: Mastery of Skills and Wonder

• Stephen
  • Moving to Denver, Colorado
  • Podcast will still go on in a remote form, similar to another popular electronics podcast
• Parker
  • Posted on his blog recently and will be doing more!
• R.F.O.
  • The Nintendo switch has been hacked – via hardware! 
    • First discovered by fail0verflow
    • Switch runs on the Nvidia Tegra X1 platform
    • Put the switch into a USB recovery mode by shorting out some pins on the Joy-Con Controller
    • Then trick the Switch's USB stack by sending a bad "length" argument
    • Allows homebrew and linux to run on the Switch
  • Say Hello to Android Things 1.0
    • Enables you to build and maintain Internet of Things devices at scale.
    • Provides hardware, rich dev api’s, and back end infrastructure
    • System-on-Modules (SoMs) - 3 year “long term support”
    • Raspberry Pi 3 Model B support for prototyping only
  • Listener email: "A topic I'd be interested in hearing you guys discuss is how you go about intentionally improving your engineering skills. I've been thinking a lot recently about the idea of achieving "mastery" of a skill and I'm quite interested in other people's take on the topic."
• Announcements
  • Twitter Chat Info 
    • May 18th Friday at 1PM CST
    • Use #MacroFab to join the conversation
  • MacroFab Monthly Electronics Meetup
    • May 23rd 6PM at MacroFab HQ in Houston
    • Brandon Satrom from Particle. Going to give a talk about IoT fundamentals.
  • Houston Hardware Happy Hour
    • June 7th at Slowpokes
    • Bring hacks and hang out

Tags: electronics podcast, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Podcast