MEP EP#175: Are Projects Really Useless?

Are Projects Really Useless?

MacroFab Design Contest: Useless Machine Sponsored by Mouser Electronics

• Four cash prizes!
  • First Place: $1000
  • Second Place: $500
  • Third Place: $250
  • MacroFab Podcast Favorite: $1000 and a Useless Trophy
• Contest runs 8 AM CST June 1st, 2019 through 8 AM CST August 10, 2019
• How to Enter your Useless Project
  • Build an electronic project that is useless
  • Document it as a new project on Hackaday.io Tag it with “MacroFab Design Contest: Useless Machine”
• More rules and information on the blog

R.F.O.

• Arm gives up control of IP to China
  • Softbank, sold the 51% share of Arm China to the Chinese

• Major Google Services Outage
  • Nest was down. No A/C and Doors couldn’t be unlocked
  • Services rendered YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat
  • Google Cloud on the backend

• Squirrels and Security — It’s a Thing!
  • They’re cute, they’re fuzzy, and they pose a major threat to our cyber-infrastructure.
  • “Frankly, the No. 1 threat experienced to date by the U.S. electrical grid is squirrels”
  • This map lists all unclassified Cyber Squirrel Operations that have been released to the public that we have been able to confirm.

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