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Capacitors go pop on Dave’s audio setup, the Presonus monitors
Ground loops causing HDMI cable sparking
Chris was watching Jetman videos and got an ‘Is that real?’ from the kid. We find ourselves asking the same with all the AI generated video these days.
Fight between mehdi/electroboom and walter lewin about KVL
Arduino bought by Qualcomm! They also released the Arduino Uno Q, a single board computer running Debian that also has a beefy microcontroller running Zephyr
Daves post on X about the purchase
Arduino switched to Zephyr
A new enabler of this complex mix of embedded, linux, AI, and ML is a software offering from Arduino called App lab
Spacey
Hardware meetup – ACES
Veritasium is PE owned now
Chris will be going to a Tektronix event for new gear and past guest Alan Wolke (W2AEW) is giving a class
Chris has been rebooting his website to follow the ideas of the Small Web
Follow #electronicscreators on YouTube to not be subject to algorithmic steering
Chris has been getting into gridfinity after discussing it a few shows ago.
Altium changed their pricing again…but it might be lower? Hard to tell
Check out the features coming to KiCad in v10
YOLO = “You Only Look Once”, Chris learned about it from OpenMV

Friday 31 October 2025 Evening Prayer for Friday in Ordinary Time