Listen to your hosts Dave Jones & Chris Gammell talk about electronics design and the electronics industry in general. If you have any interest in electronics at all, from hobbyist/hacker/maker to engineering professional you'll find something of interest here.
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#543 – Cassette decks have browsers?
- Apple released the AirTag, which is for asset tracking. People on twitter are reverse engineering them, including former guest Colin O’Flynn:
- https://twitter.com/colinoflynn/status/1391168784271032320
- khttps://twitter.com/0x31337/status/1395064352785399808
- https://twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1392185552502501377
- Bluetooth COVID tracing apps
- iFixit AirTag teardown
- Sidewalk Labs is a group at Google. Sidewalk is a new technology using LoRa available from Amazon.
- CNSA just landed on Mars.
- Airbags vs powered descent
- For F-150 Lightning is coming and will be able to power your home.
- Vehicle to Load (V2L)
- Hyundai Ioniq 5 is coming soon
- Higher charge rate cables have liquid cooling
- Buying cars
- Car shops servicing EVs…will they end up listening to The Amp Hour instead of Car Talk?? (no)
- Dave is in the midst of an audio amp repair. It’s a VFD failure. Part 1, Part 2.
- Service manual
- Right to repair summit in Canberra
- Chris has been to Canberra with Dave back in 2016!
- Zephyr developer summit
- Supplyframe was bought by Siemens for $700M
- Itchy and Scratchy Money
- Zach ‘Hoeken’ Smith moved to the beach upon cashing out from Makerbot
- KiCad / Altium library setup
- “Choice leads to suffering” ~ Yoda, probably
- Dogfooding
- Audacity telemetry