#261 – Recycle All Your Microcontrollers

Shark Tank had an episode where one of the entrepreneurs talks about the issues they had with shopping cart and website woes!
http://blog.reddressboutique.com/beyond-the-tank-the-rest-of-the-story/


So how are Vagrant scripts written? Seems like an interesting idea, but does it only work for installing from git/sourceforge/etc? Or can it be setup to install any software.. Microchip Mplabx, Xilinx Vivado, etc?


Regarding Blue+/BLE-Stack 2/etc, I'd love to see a development kit for NON-BLE 250kbps rubbish... something that's going to be plugged in to wall and uses bluetooth classic, I haven't been able to find any bluetooth 2.1 EDR module for example, for a high thruput bt wireless application (FTP profile).

Those professional spacemouse devices looks awesome! Does it help with xDX Designer?

... surprised that no one has chimed in yet on disposal of unwanted electronic items.

Dev boards, PCBs, etc, fall in to a broad category of electronic waste (or E waste) that has only recently been starting to get managed separately by the solid waste industry. Unfortunately, lots of old cathode ray tube monitors made their way into the trash before local and state governments caught up and set up their E Waste programs. By 2015, most counties and cities in the US should have somewhere to take this stuff. Often, it will be part of the household hazardous waste collection center.

These sorts of programs are typically free to residents, but businesses are often on the hook for their wastes.

Like you mentioned in the program, there are some folks that engage in "sham" recycling and plenty of US operators just fill shipping containers and send the stuff back to china. I really don't know of a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff.

This website has info on a certification program for ewaste recycling that looks promising:

http://www.electronicstakeback.com/how-to-recycle-electronics/

In my area, they suggest taking e-waste to Staples, so that sounds simple enough.

For me, an easy way to think of buck smps, is just think of the ratio to vin>vout, that is your PWM duty cycle and then since you want a solid voltage, not a pulsing one you put an inductor and a capacitor to filter it. - not 100% accurate but close enough.