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Welcome Michał Zalewski, AKA lcamtuf!
- The lcamtuf Substack is where Michał is writing most these days
- Chris first found and geeked out about the CNC guide on the lcamtuf original site (discussed many times here)
- Michał is interested in the craft of teaching electronics
- He recently published The Secret Life of Circuits with No Starch Press
- Use the code AMPHOUR26 for 30% off The Secret Life of Circuits valid from June 1st through June 30th
- It was announced on his blog here
- Deriving fomulas from basic trigonometry sometimes bugs people who think electronics should only work with calculus
- Software geeks follow the site, often getting lots of attention on Hacker News
- Row hammer DRAM
- There were no Information Security degrees in the early days, so the field was made up of folks with backgrounds in math and EEs
- Fuzzing for security
- SMBC cartoon for blming humans
- Books
- Security stuff (including books on the subject) ages over time, as opposed to electronics
- On the subjects of Calculators (and Michał's collection)
- Calculators are a footnote in the history of computing, but still intriguing
- Dead ends in calculators
- CRT displays on calculators
- Nixie tubes
- Discrete moving into logic gates into processors
- Mechanical calculators are rare and get a high price online
- Working with transistors
- The Secret Life of Circuits start with FET based transistors vs BJT
- BJTs are often right after diode chapter because of the multiple junctions in an NPN, but that doesn't make it easier to understand
- Projects