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would you believe looking at this sign that it was only seven months ago that

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cron technologies having raised over half a million dollars for their kronos

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1.4 affordable high-speed camera on kickstarter moved from the founder's

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garage into what could probably be best described as the

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founders much more bigger much more

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better garage well it was so things are a little rough around the edges in this

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group of seven or eight somehow they weren't exactly

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sure when i asked them of big

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nerds basically

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hey it's true it's true and you know it

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as i was saying this group of big nerds hasn't got the place

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fully set up yet in a conventional sense but

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in some ways that's what's really exciting about it

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come with me and take a peek behind the curtain of a real startup the silicon

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valley vibe is definitely real and this place is seriously cool

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the place looks like a typical office that is at least until you actually poke

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your head into any of the actual workspaces so this is

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loyal's cubicle where in addition to a

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laptop on a stand and an extra monitor he's got

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another extra monitor and he's got an oscilloscope for measuring

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electrical signals off of probes as well as a gorgeous piece of microscopery here

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that he uses to hand solder badges which are

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sort of last minute quick fixes to bad boards or

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bad batches of boards or the very very delicate leads that you

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see on a board like this which are required to probe CPU functionality or

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RAM signaling so it was actually through this board here that cron technologies

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was able to get two sticks of memory working bumping their maximum capacity

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to 32 gigs that is double what similar

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competitors can offer but how did we get here

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to enter that we're going to take a look at the museum a collection of

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development board pcbs screwed to pieces of plywood sitting on a boardroom table

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that was clearly along with the chairs around it acquired from some other

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company's bankruptcy auction so this this is the first chronos it was

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built and programmed single-handedly by cron technologies founder david

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kronstein he loved the cool stuff that

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mythbusters was doing back in the mid 2000s but as a student he couldn't

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afford even the inexpensive olympus that he found on

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ebay for 3 500 bucks so he went

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you know what screw it imma make my own

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so this first iteration here completed in 2008 was made of

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off-the-shelf development kits that were relatively limited compared to what's

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available in the maker scene today it was only capable of 640 by 480

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resolution at 240 frames per second max

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so not game-changing but

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it worked and it only cost him 500 bucks

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that is to say if you don't count time the second gen refined the original

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design it wasn't more compact but

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it could record at 1280x1024

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and add up to 500 frames per second

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so now we're getting somewhere by the third gen it was 2012 or 2015

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depending on how you count and thanks to

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a foldable board design the pcb along

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with all of the other components could be fitted into a custom 3d printed abs

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housing so this was the first one that was capable of looking like

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an actual camera then we've got some kind of prototype

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looking things 3d printed metal

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wood this was apparently for designing the feel of the grip

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and then finally the chronos 1.4 so this is the actual

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camera that shipped to kickstarter backers back in mid-summer last year

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it's not that cheap in fact i'm sure the irony of a price tag that his 2006 self

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wouldn't have been able to afford isn't lost on david but the capabilities of

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the chronos 1.4 far exceed that camera

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he saw on ebay it's got a form factor that is very similar to a

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normal stills picture camera it takes standard c-mount lenses and it can

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capture burst shots and video either raw

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or converted to mp4 at resolutions of up

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to 1280x1024 and frame rates of up to 38

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500 frames per second if you wanted something comparable from one of the big

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guys in the space you could get that and it would probably

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have more features so david's team knows that they need to continue to add

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functionality through firmware updates going into the future but it would cost

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you four to five times as much

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or more so knowing that price is one of their

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advantages david's team is building their cameras

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in this workshop here behind me right here in canada around standard commodity

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parts with careful attention to whether they or their users

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really need something fancier especially if it comes at the cost of creating or

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buying something proprietary the ARM cortex a8 based CPU that runs the user

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interface is actually about nine years old

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but in general h.264 encoders haven't

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really changed that much in that time outside of the very high end so they're

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sticking with it for now and there are a ton of examples of this kind of thing

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a lot of work was put into making it possible to pull data off the sensor at

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high speed into the RAM with a 35

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fpga by contrast the analogous fpgas in

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a phantom camera could cost thousands of

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dollars the uh the touchscreen is actually from

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a chinese manufacturer i think that yep there's one here off of digi-key or

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mouse or something like that and the RAM

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this is what actually holds the buffered video because the data rates are so high

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is just standard notebook ddr3 sodium RAM off of

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like newegg and this philosophy of openness continues in the user

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accessories so you can just use off-the-shelf laptop adapters to power

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it if you want a battery pack you just need to pick up a nikon en el4a battery

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pack and in terms of storage so once you dump off of the RAM onto something more

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permanent you can use a standard sd card you can just use a usb device you can

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use powerd SATA and coming soon they've even got Ethernet so what we end up with

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is a finished product that is surprisingly robust thanks to the thick

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aluminum machined chassis so this one

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right here actually got hit by a 300 kilometer per

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hour ice ball and survived and then this

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one was actually pulled into an industrial

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filing machine and now obviously the lcd didn't make it but the

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rest of the internals actually did survive with only minimal damage to the

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outside of the chassis so behind me here david is actually

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capturing colored water droplets at 1500

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frames per second and this

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is absolutely incredible

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now the monochrome version does give you a

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little bit higher effective resolution

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and it requires only half as much light

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which is really really important for high speed videography

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but it doesn't have quite the wow factor

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of the color one okay we gotta go find some more cool

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stuff to do so this one right here is a lot of fun this is called a caboose

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caboose kaboosh so this was actually

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uh how they created the effect in the

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stargate portals let's go have a look at it

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oh that's beautiful cool

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okay so we're all set up uh david's running at uh 1500 frames per second

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there uh sean's got 6 000 and then we've

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got a third camera here at 6 000 moment of truth time

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all right let's have a look dang that's beautiful

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of course we're not done yet though what slo-mo video would be complete without

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some destruction for that we will need what they call the

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mohammed room so in here you will find not one not two not three not four but

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five of their kronos 1.4 cameras

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a flipped over lawn mower that you can

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drop stuff in a reinforced plywood

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whatever that means cage as well as a

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mesh roof and the world's most technologically advanced

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dropping mechanism a dowel with a piece

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of string this can be fun

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oh right one last thing hit the lights

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four one thousand watt leds

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water cooled with about one third of the brightness

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of the sun so we don't miss any of the action

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let's drop them how do i turn this on

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wow is there anything protecting those cameras no not really all right next up

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we've got a fujifilm uh tape tape drive

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tape like a backup tape three two one

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something hit this door pretty freaking hard

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wow what the hell it looks like there was a

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party in here and everyone was invited

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and for our last trick the guys who put spray foam into our

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warehouse expansion destroyed

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all of our cardboard cutouts from ltx last year see they're all stained and

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stuff so i'm gonna let you the viewers vote leave

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a comment with who you want to see shredded because we're only going to do

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one Linus taryn

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dennis or luke and don't cheat

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leave a comment it really works really

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oh all right

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let's see if we can figure out how to put me into the lawnmower here

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all right i think i'd rather go in head first end

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the suffering so i'm finding your uh your workplace

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um very hightest

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i'm finding this to be a heightest workplace

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okay all right you know what i'm just going to rip this ARM off

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so that was a lot of fun and at three to four thousand dollars a pop depending on

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how long of a record buffer you want these things are actually within the

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reach of affluent hobbyists who want to load up

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an air cannon with bouncy balls and record the hilarity or whatever else

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but the main market for these and they're apparently shipping upwards of

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400 of these devices per year now at the

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current rate and this is ignoring kickstarter our research institutions

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universities the manufacturing sector i

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mean you can imagine it would be a lot easier to you know debug a faulty robot

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ARM that screws on bottle caps if you can really see what it's doing

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as well as armorers and trigger manufacturers and even rocket thrust

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researchers because they're so much

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lower cost than the other options available that you could have several of

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them giving you multiple angles on it at a time something that's absolutely

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invaluable they even support synchronizing the cameras so you can

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record stereo 3d of what's going on 6

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000 plus frames per second so i'm really excited about what these

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guys are doing i was absolutely thrilled to find out that they're in my backyard

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in burnaby british columbia and i wish them all the best apparently they're

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hiring right now what was it software and hardware engineers

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so sorry yeah software engineers with Linux kernel experience and hardware

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with fpga experience fpga experience is the big one so

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uh yeah these guys have got big plans wish you guys the best of luck because

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