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#532 – Recalling Recalls
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- Dave tore down his ATEM mini ISO
- Internally there is a Xilinx Zynq that has an $1800 single piece price
- The pipelined data path can also do things like Chromakey
- Texas power outage
- Lawrence Krause
- Dave is upgrading his solar
- Can solar be used as a hedge on inflation?
- North vs south facing depends on your latitude.
- String inverter vs microinveter
- John Edmond of Cree (one of our earliest guests!) talking about LEDs and SiC mosfets
- Past guest Martin Lorton made a set of videos about inspecting solar panels
- DC isolator fires
- Product recall
- RCA TV recall
- Dave had to ship out shims to counteract underspec’d thickness of the PCB on 121GW
- Tesla recall
- Takata airbag recall
- Dave’s video (#10) about how a rubberband cost millions of dollars!
- Marco Reps did a build of an 8.5 digit voltmeter
- Perserverance landed on Mars! So awesome
- The “Marketing Camera” was an off-the-shelf camera from FLIR
- Real Engineering did a video about all of the features on the new rover
- Fry’s is shutting down
- US administration is pushing for more silicon investment (fabs)
Thanks to Wikipedia for the representative rendering of Dave and Chris trying to remember recalls