#676 – Moving House (And Lab)
Dave and Chris record together after a long hiatus because Chris spent the summer moving boxes between two houses and reorganizing his lab. Also hardware livestreams, open source hardware, new battery storage, layoffs, and more!
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
September 3, 2024
Show Notes
- Chris has been moving house, which partially explains the terrible audio problems the past few episodes…
- For a lab, Chris believes in
- Lots of wire shelving (with epoxy coating)
- Everything on wheels (including shelving and workbenches)
- As much storage as you can get
- Chris has been doing livestreams of hardware design for Golioth.
- The module he is designing is called the Drachm (“dram”)
- The hardware Chris has been working on for the past 2 years is now open source
- Flox video with machine learning on a camera also featured Chris
- Altium finalized their acquisition by Renesas. The price already went up (discussed previously)
- Raspberry Pi released the RP2350 while we were away
- Inductor polarity on the RPi Pico 2
- RP2350 Datasheet
- You can choose the processors you want (Dual m33, dual RISC V)
- Microchip was offline due to …. HACKERS
- Dave has been trying out a new home battery storage system
- NMC vs LFP
- Reverse cycle
- There have been lots of layoffs in tech, including 15K (!) at Intel
- Layoffs.fyi
- Being sued for a battery review? Say it aint so