#676 – Moving House (And Lab)

Chris has been moving house, which partially explains the terrible audio problems the past few episodes…
For a lab, Chris believes in
- Lots of wire shelving (with epoxy coating)
- Everything on wheels (including shelving and workbenches)
- As much storage as you can get
Chris has been doing livestreams of hardware design for Golioth.
The module he is designing is called the Drachm (“dram”)
The hardware Chris has been working on for the past 2 years is now open source
Flox video with machine learning on a camera also featured Chris
Altium finalized their acquisition by Renesas. The price already went up (discussed previously)
Raspberry Pi released the RP2350 while we were away
Inductor polarity on the RPi Pico 2
RP2350 Datasheet
You can choose the processors you want (Dual m33, dual RISC V)
Microchip was offline due to …. HACKERS
Dave has been trying out a new home battery storage system
NMC vs LFP
Reverse cycle
There have been lots of layoffs in tech, including 15K (!) at Intel
Layoffs.fyi
Being sued for a battery review? Say it aint so

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