The Spark Gap

Karl and Corey discuss how to work with development kits, specifically on how to best transition from a dev kit to a custom design.

Karl and Corey talk about various ways to protect a design from other devices that can pull too much power, reverse voltage polarity, and otherwise cause damage.

Karl and Corey discuss various means of user input: buttons, rotary encoders, and resistive and capacitive touch sensing.

Karl and Corey talk about their trip to Portland, Oregon and the 2016 Open Hardware Summit.

Karl and Corey are back to talk about design choices you can make when creating schematics and PCB layouts that will make board bring up and debugging much easier.

Karl and Corey discuss the issues with heat in an embedded design, how to prevent it, how to detect it, and how to deal with it.

Karl and Corey discuss the CANbus protocol and the new CAN-FD specification.

Karl and Corey talk about some of the lessons Karl learned (and remembered) at the Signal Integrity Boot Camp at DesignCon.

Karl and Corey air some grievances about Raspberry Pi, "Hoverboards", and PCB layout practices in this grab bag/Festivus episode.

Karl and Corey talk about how knowledge of electronics can cause headaches when looking at products and crowd-funding campaigns.

Karl and Corey finishing talking with Chris Gammell about parts.io and selecting the right op-amp for a given application. (Part 2 of 2)

Karl and Corey are joined by Chris Gammell to talk about how to pick the right op-amp.  Part 1 of 2.

Karl and Corey are back! Join them as they talk about design choices and gotchas involving connectors.

Karl and Corey depart from hardware to talk about one of the more interesting bits of firmware, pointers.

Karl and Corey talk about the gear they use to bring you this podcast.

Karl and Corey talk about designing projects with the future in mind.

Karl and Corey discuss a few submissions they liked from the Hackaday Prize 2015.  Disclaimer: Neither Karl nor Corey are affiliated in any way with the Hakaday Prize selection.

Karl teaches Corey about how cars work and how electronics fit into modern automobiles.

Karl's going to Burning Man.  Let's talk about some electronics you might want when camping in the desert.