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Deposition - adding materials

Adding Materials to a Silicon Wafer

By Bryon Moyer | June 8, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Building chips starts with a silicon wafer. From there you add and remove material with the assistance of photolithography.] This week’s piece is about what we called deposition in last week’s edition. “Deposition” actually means something more specific when processing silicon wafers, so, for the moment, […]

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Sensors and actuators

Sensors and Actuators

By Bryon Moyer | May 25, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Amazon just had a glitch that sent a random conversation to a random contact.] This week we start our look at sensors and actuators. There’s lots of technology to talk about in order to make sense out of this. Before we get into that, why are […]

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Alexa bug

Is Someone Listening In? An Alexa Bug

By Bryon Moyer | May 24, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We looked at a review of what we’ve talked about since the beginning of the year.] Today we do an off-cycle posting due to a late-breaking story that relates to our recent discussion of the Big 3 – notably, Amazon. They’ve had a rather embarrassing problem […]

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IoT Review

Review and Summary

By Bryon Moyer | May 18, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: ISPs also have various strategies for the IoT, with some including smart-home offerings.] We’ve covered a lot of ground since our last review and summary, which was at the beginning of the year. We’ve looked at items generically affecting the IoT, and we dug a more […]

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The Big 3 smart-home providers

The Big 3 Smart-Home Companies

By Bryon Moyer | May 4, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: Devices need to talk to other devices using the correct form of the API for the devices receiving commands. Profiles may help with this.] Now that we’ve had a of background on why devices can or cannot talk to each other, let’s look at the Big […]

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