The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#724 – All Heat, No Useful Work

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  • Chris just got back from a work trip to Madrid
  • He also got to hang out with Matt Venn (and coworker Mike Szczys) in Valencia
  • Dave has a new data center going in across the street
    • Chris enjoyed this episode of Prof G Markets where they talked about the impact of data centers on power and the rise of “behind the meter” generation
    • Dave without internet for a week. Chris has had multiday losses after fiber has been cut in his neighborhood.
    • Humanoid robots…on a plane!
    • Chris has been working on 0201 components on a tiny Bluetooth board
    • The Iran War and subsequent rise in petroleum product sourcing issues is starting to impact the PCB industry
      • PCBs we are used to ordering at low cost (JLC, PCBway, etc) are normally loss leaders to get larger business later
      • Chris found his low cost microscope from Florin/Voltlog trinocular video 
      • lcamtuf will be on the show soon, Chris bought a CNC mill because of a single webpage of his making
      • TagMod board is a new breakout Chris made for injecting power through a 10 pin TagConnect cable.
      • NXP devboards somehow have LEDs as bright as the sun
      • Dave has been revisiting his solar analytics (update: he figured out he’s getting charged more too!)
      • Chris has been working at Canonical (makers of Ubuntu, new owners of Golioth) for a few months now. That was the trip to Spain.
      • Dogfooding your own product
      • Chris created a backronym: “Application Level Program Optimization” or… ALPO
      • Chris built a new vibe coded project for talking to Zephyr devices using Web Serial and passing firmware packages over SMP
      • CI/CD
      • Debian now requires “fully reproducable” builds to harden against supply chain attacks
      • Veritasium video about Linux bug
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