419: Fission Chips

Episode description

Eric Schlaepfer and Windell Oskay are the authors of Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components. We discussed the inner beauty of a number of electronic components as well as cameras, photography, writing, preparing samples, and terrible title puns.

You can pre-order the physical book and get a digital early release copy at NoStarch.com/Open-Circuits

Windell is co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratory (@EMSL). He and Eric have collaborated before on several projects:

• The Three Fives Kit: A Discrete 555 Timer 

• The 555SE Discrete 555 Timer

• The XL741 Discrete Op-Amp Kit

• The 741SE Discrete 741 Op-Amp

Eric is also known for the Monster 6502, a 6502 processor made up of individual transistors. Eric also writes on tubetime.us and is on Twitter as @TubeTimeUS

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• The Three Fives Kit: A Discrete 555 Timer (two)

• A copy of Open Circuits (one)

Transcript

A lovely reject from the book, this is the base of a neon bulb from GE.