As expected, the ware for October 2012 was imminently guessable. Julien Lefort got it within minutes of the ware going up, congratulations and email me to claim your prize!

I thought it was noteworthy that the H.264 Pro Recorder’s mainboard has components on only one side — the designers opted to not put any components on the back side, not even decoupling capacitors (I tend to use underside-mounted decaps to minimize lead lengths to the IC die). Counterbalancing that is what appears to be blind/buried micro-via construction of the PCB itself. It’s an interesting and unique design methodology. The overall design is very clean, my guess is the hardware design team was located in a single facility in the US or Europe, and the layout was probably done in-house.

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