I'm going out to meet the sound engineers working with #sleeptoken up at Allstate arena in #Rosemont #Illinois this weekend. They are a #heavymetal band using the #Shure #axient #digital #psm system that I have spent most of my days working on for the last few years. It's good to have a chance to go out and talk to a customer after a long time stuck in the lab.

The trip is being coordinated via #whatsapp which meant I have installed a Meta app on my phone for the first time in 10 or so years.

BREAKING: Shure Axient Digital PSM has just won an NAB Best of Show Award in the MIX category!

(I did the FPGA design.)

#axient #nabshow #shure #iem #proaudio #fpga #electronics

Internal to the #Axient #Digital #PSM Receiver (ADXR) that #Shure just shipped there is, unsurprisingly, a programming header
that exposes #serial, #JTAG, etc. It is in violation of (Murphy's)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy_Jr.] law.

This stupid cable has the same connector at both ends, but is electrically asymmetrical. It has no key feature and has no obvious polarity marking on the cable.

I will not allow this mistake to
propagate to the new design.

#electronics