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#644 – Garbage Ninjas
- Chris joined the 2010s and got a step tracker, the Fitbit Inspire 3
- There are commercially available teardown reports you can buy
- One of the sensors on board is well supported in Zephyr. This influences how Chris chooses parts.
- The RT500 (discussed by Aeden in episode 638) is supported in Zephyr and targets the smart watch industry
- Kalman filters are pretty amazing
- Dave blew out his other knee (!) and went to go see a Podiatry specialist to get his gait analyzed. He has “impressively flexible feet”
- Dave did a teardown of the classic Boombox from Say Anything
- Joe Grand made “The World’s Flattest Boombox” to showcase a piezo speaker. It was a really cool PCB!
- Joe Grand was also on The Amp Hour (twice!)
- Episode 60, one of our earliest guests
- Episode 575 in early 2022 when Joe was hacking on Trezor wallets
- eBay
- Garbage ninjas
- Recycling electronics
- uSupply video
- Part number stuff
- Chris has been putting a design through Macrofab. Chris and Parker were on episode 243.
- Tempo automation has maybe (probably?) shut down. There was a weird email that Chris shared. After the show, Chris found a post about how they’re down to 7 employees, so probably aren’t manufacturing any boards…
- Making a RISC V processor in 100 lines of Verilog!