#682 – Your Mind Is The Tool

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

• Chris has been troubleshooting a PCB with a dead short on inner layers (put in by board house by mistake)
• Don’t Touch My Gerbers shirt
• “Is there an AI tool that will fix this for me?” … No
• Chris dumped a bunch of current in the board and looked at it with this thermal camera
• 6.5 digit DMM to track down shorts
• Etching problems in the old days
• 100% etest
• Adding rails to PCBs for production
• Reddit discussion thread: why not work on a product? That is, Dave, the wise one.
• Videos
• Live stream issues
• Post from Twitter: Is 2 layers all you really need? This person thinks so, or is trying to convince themselves as much.
• Armchair quarterbacking
• Ian Johnston replacing the display on an 8.5 digit DMM
• Jack Ganssle has posted his final newsletter (The Embedded Muse)…happy retirement! Jack has been on the show twice:
  • Episode 54 (!)
  • Episode 489
• Ward Christensen, Inventor of BBS and XModem, (and former listener of the show!) has passed away
• Dave is interviewing Lee Felstenstein for our next episode