EEVblog 1619 - Mailbag: Featuring Don McKenzie

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More Mailbag!

00:00 - THE Don McKenzie! and a bonanza of embedded history
https://www.dontronics.com/jump-list.html
https://www.dontronics.com/First-pc.html
08:44- PBUFF prototype
18:38 - Photon, the world's longest battery life camera (Open Source)
https://toaster.llc/photon/index.html
29:19 - Sanyo ICC-811 Mini Calculator from 1972
37:33 - Japanese Gadgets: USB to Bluetooth converter + USB Cable Tester
https://bit-trade-one.co.jp/
43:28 - Professional Electronic Design Best Practices Book
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Electronic-Design-Best-Practices/dp/B0C1J56V97/
51:08 - Hoppes Brain  MT-200 package adapter
https://hoppesbrain.com/

[thm_w]

The camera app is somewhat detailed (attached), lets you choose settings. So I guess either the FPGA is writing directly to the SD card, or its using apple specific file system (APFS). Then the USB driver itself is proprietary as well? Wasn't really clear.

It is slick but I would be more of a fan of:
- Generic mass storage device driver
- exfat or whatever universal filesystem sd card, with the .raw image files
- A settings.ini file that anyone could modify easily

Cool product though.

[EEVblog]

The camera app is somewhat detailed (attached), lets you choose settings. So I guess either the FPGA is writing directly to the SD card, or its using apple specific file system (APFS). Then the USB driver itself is proprietary as well? Wasn't really clear.

It is slick but I would be more of a fan of:
- Generic mass storage device driver
- exfat or whatever universal filesystem sd card, with the .raw image files
- A settings.ini file that anyone could modify easily

Cool product though.

Agreed.