#707 – Welding with an HDMI Cable

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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