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