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#639 – Daaaamn We’re Duuuummmb
- Dave has been traveling around Australia with family. He made a video about an old solar thermal facility.
- Chris also has been traveling, he gave a talk at the Embedded Open Source Summit about doing embedded training.
- Solar thermal efficiencies
- What is the efficiency of a mirror?
- What is the efficiency of a transformer?
- Power engineering class
- Nic Bingham giving a talk about high pressure electronics
- Chris was inspired from CNLohr’s episode where he talked about building a switcher. He recently bought a bunch of CH32V003 parts.
- WSJ article about Chiplets (Archive)
- Chiplets have been mentioned on the show a bunch before
- Ming Zhang
- Craig Bishop
- Dave reviews the Analog Discovery 3. This is Chris’s daily driver at this point, especially when on the move.
- While searching for something during the episode, Chris stumbled onto an old reddit post from 9 years ago about how they decide where to build fabs.
- Chris and Dave both felt dumb while watching Shahriar’s Starlink teardown
- Kathy Loves Physics will be doing videos about Maxwell’s equations