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#576 – A literal trainwreck
There was some light “popping” happening throughout this episode on Chris’s mic, due to new hardware configuration. Apologies.
- A train watching group posted a video of a train crash/derailment. There was also a YouTube feed of the cleanup.
- Chris was on vacation and visited the Wilmington Railroad Museum
- Model train gauges: XO gauge, N gauge, Z Gauge
- Train in a briefcase
- Dave has a video with his friend Doug Ford reviewing audio decisions on trains
- Intel will be building new fabs in…Ohio? Chris wonders about the talent factor given the lack of other chip manufacturing in the midwest
- Dave is upset about IndieGoGo campaigns that are fleecing people for money
- SigFox (a paid LoRa network based out of France) is filing for bankruptcy. What happens to people on their networks?
- The Apple AirTag is an ad-hoc asset tracking network that relies on a very prevalent network effect (iPhones everywhere)
- Other LoRaWAN networks are springing up, most notably Helium (which has a crypto currency associated with it) and Sidewalk (which has an Amazon associated with it)
- Wendover Productions explains cellular networks
- Eccentric Orbits was a book about building (and saving) the Iridium satellite network
- After posting last week’s episode on Twitter, we were asking “Can you reverse engineer an open source product?”
- Chris is now on Linux Mint 20.3, possibly the source of the popping sound during this episode (also stupidly had an external hard drive plugged into the same USB extender that may have impacted the USB mic)
- How is it that Windows based tutorials still show Teraterm as the best way to connect to serial ports for hardware?
Thanks to Geoff Henson for the photo of the train