EP#48: I.O.H. Internet of Howitzers

Podcast Notes

• The dashboard on the MacroFab website is new and improved! Will now show all the stuff you have going on at MacroFab. Check it out here. See Figure 1.
• Stephen finished up talking about the big resistor or doom project.
• Cherry Switches and Sensors are to be sold under the  ZF brand name. The switches we love in our keyboards should be unaffected.
•  Extracting data from a mask ROM IC using acid to etch away the epoxy cap and then using UV to flip the read protect bit.
• Danger Close: Fancy Bear Tracking of  Ukrainian Field Artillery Units. A howitzer that uses an Android app?
• Why the  United Nations Must Move Forward With a Killer Robots Ban. "If we don’t get a ban in place, there will be an arms race. And the end point of this race will look much like the dystopian future painted by Hollywood movies like The Terminator”
• Flip-Pins. Add DIP Chip like pins to PCBs for use in breadboards.
• Police Want  Alexa Data; People Begin to Realize It’s Listening.  Murder investigation leads to a warrant against Amazon to release recordings made from a Alexa IoT device.
• Name our two conference rooms! Hopefully it will be better then Conference McConference Face.

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!