“Ask an Engineer” TONIGHT – Saturday 10pm EDT 7/31/2010. What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week. Mosfet the cat stops by too. Previous chats can be viewed at http://www.adafruit.com/ask

Topics tonight include:

• For two hours 10pm ET to 11:59 pm ET you can pre-order the MintyBoost (new version, works with iPhone 4G, 3Gs…)
• EPLIOG laser reports a record month and year, DIY community
• DEFCON badges (Amanda w0z) designed!
• Adafruit projects on github (there’s more)
• Thermocouple Amplifier (MAX6675) breakout board, Thermocouple Type-K Glass Braid Insulated – K
• New enclosure for Arduino! And how it was made!
• New tutorial Ice Tube Clock + low cost GPS (discussing GPS vs atomic)

Testing the MintyBoost at the iStore, all testing was perfect!

Chat details!

• Visit our new “Ask an Engineer”section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
• Or visit our Ustream page
• For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
• We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
• Watch the show with an iPad, iPhone or Android phone!

See you there!